A group of academics have written a letter to the Royal Society of New Zealand expressing their concerns about the school curriculum being required to ensure parity for mātauranga Māori with other bodies of knowledge. What is the relationship between mātauranga Māori and science? Are the academic’s concerns reasonable?
Behavioural change takes 1.5 generations on average, technological change 2 to 3.5. If we want to have an impact on climate change, should governments start focusing on people’s behaviour rather than technological silver bullets? And how much of a role can community play?
Where are inflation and interest rates in New Zealand headed? Quantitative easing increased money supply but the government didn’t expect that to result in inflation. Huh?
MBIE is preventing people using software innovations to book slots in MIQ. We have spent the last thirty years telling scientists to be more entrepreneurial but now we’re telling people to act dumb?
Here comes the third wave of COVID-19 around the world. Luckily, it appears the 3rd wave is relatively non-lethal in countries with high rates of vaccination. Although NZ still hasn’t decided on our vaccination targets.
