May 2021 – Jane Shearer

Variations on a theme

In music, variations are commonly used to create new musical pieces – a set of notes are played and then repeated with […]

I don’t know when I first heard about the day the world would end. There certainly was no government announcement; in future […]

There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that the COVID-year has driven more couples to separate than normal. Family lawyers say that they have […]

When I started at the University of Canterbury in 1983, I underwent a minor rebellion and took philosophy instead of chemistry. I […]

Chronic fatigue is one of the common symptoms of ‘long COVID’. In Britain, there are estimates that 14% of people who tested […]