Jane Shearer

Fair play for frogs

Frogs jump out of gradually heating water, but humans stick with failing paths of action. So why do we keep dissing frogs?

Some NZ bookstores won’t stock books referring to vaccination in any way, including my new novel. What does this mean for our society?

When life serves you cucumbers … you could put them on your face. Or, preferably, make great soup.

What is the similarity between singing and biking? In the learning, it turns out, as I discovered this week.

This week I had to come up with a publishing imprint; I invented the name and AI helped me with the logo. […]

The news of the week in New Zealand has to be Jacinda Ardern’s resignation. The above photo is as close as we […]

All good things must change, or they stop being good. To coincide with the lead-in to the release of my novel ‘Broken […]

The US could be powered by solar panels on 100 square kilometres. Really? How much land would we need to solar power New Zealand?

Can you tell a real image from a fake? AI can’t, but it can make fakes. And it can recognise your face. Scared yet? Should you be?

How clean is clean enough? Where’s the boundary between hygiene and morality when it comes to cleaning your house?