If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

AirPort Express bus that runs through Central Wellington. The airport is only about 3 miles away but when you don’t have a car (and even if you do!) the bus is awesome.

In New Zealand people complain because the bus to the airport that comes every 10 minutes costs $5 (USD). We in the USA should be so lucky! I finally tried to take the bus in North Carolina but realized it only runs once an hour on Saturdays.

This Rümeysa Öztürk hearing is radicalizing. I've been a court reporter for many years, and I've never covered anything like this: A student deeply committed to her studies, imprisoned solely over writing an op-ed, being made to testify under oath for her own freedom. Dark, dark stuff.