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Mike Pole

From New Zealand. Traveling the weyward path trying to figure out how the world works. I study fossil plants, past climates, travel, walk, hike, read, take photos, struggle with computer graphics and plant trees.

  • New Zealand History

    Flax/Harakeke – New Zealand’s Resource Curse

    by Mike Pole November 10, 2023
    by Mike Pole November 10, 2023

    The Musket Wars? Shortly after Europeans began operating in Aotearoa-New Zealand (c. 1807-1837), a series of conflicts among the indigenous Maori dramatically …

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    The Sixth-Century Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, Austria

    by Mike Pole November 5, 2023
    by Mike Pole November 5, 2023

    An elite woman who read ‘Migration Woman Vogue’. In January 1910, gold jewellery and bones were accidentally uncovered near the village of …

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    ChatGPT Makes Shit Up

    by Mike Pole March 18, 2023
    by Mike Pole March 18, 2023

    An academic asks ChatGPT about New Zealand’s Miocene Manuherikia Group Your narrator dips his toes into this ChatGPT thing With a nod …

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  • New Zealand Geology

    Tuataras in Central Otago

    by Mike Pole March 20, 2022
    by Mike Pole March 20, 2022

    Bleached moa bones projected out from the steep bank of the nearly dry gully. This was exciting, as there were clearly several …

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  • History/Archaeology

    1066 and the Dead Parrot (The weird things going on in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry)

    by Mike Pole May 8, 2020
    by Mike Pole May 8, 2020

    I like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …

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    Time-Travel in a Time of COVID-19

    by Mike Pole April 13, 2020
    by Mike Pole April 13, 2020

    What’s a guy to do during lock-down? I’ve chosen to time-travel back to around the first and second centuries AD. At that …

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  • ClimateNew Zealand Geology

    Bob Carter, Greenhouse Warming, and One Alarmed Palaeontologist

    by Mike Pole February 6, 2020
    by Mike Pole February 6, 2020

    I met Bob Carter after one of my fossil-collecting mates, Duncan McLeod, came across some shell fossils in a ‘marl pit’ on …

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  • Australian EcologyClimateFireForests

    How to Thoroughly Confuse Everyone about Prescribed Burning in Australia

    by Mike Pole January 29, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 29, 2020

    In the last couple of days, something of a ‘blue’ has developed among some Western Australian fire experts over ‘Prescribed Burning’ – …

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    Did Queensland Rainforest Spread when Cultural Burning Stopped?

    by Mike Pole January 18, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 18, 2020

    “This is the Giant Stinger tree – avoid it”. Work place health and safety now out of the way, I could then …

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    When New Zealand was a Burning Land

    by Mike Pole January 16, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 16, 2020

    Broken River is a Hell of a place to get to. From Christchurch you need to head inland, driving along the road …

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  • Home
  • About me
  • Contact me
  • Categories
    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
    • Fire
    • Travel
    • Forests
    • New Zealand plant fossils
    • New Zealand Geology
    • History/Archaeology
    • Supernatural
    • Cheap Eats Nanjing
  • Places
    • Australia
    • Armenia
    • Bosnia
    • Brazil
    • Canary Island
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Turkey
    • Estonia
    • France
    • Georgia
    • Germany
    • Lebanon
    • Mexico
    • Mongolia
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    • Uganda
    • New Zealand
    • India
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