2024 – Page 4 – Jane Shearer

1 June 2024Uncategorised

Politics and Corruption

This week it was revealed John Key got to buy a $2 million dollar section in Gibbston Valley Resort for $400,000 to help with marketing. How long a stretch is it from ex-politicians influencing marketing to influencing political decisions? It may not be very far at all.

25 May 2024Uncategorised

Coffee & Cadiz

Life was pleasantly slow and coffee was cheap in Spain. And there were no takeaway coffee cups. Is this a state New Zealand could aspire to?

18 May 2024Uncategorised

Weaponising of Woke

How woke is my meal? And how did we get to a point where we are concerned with the ‘wokeness’, or otherwise, of edibles?

11 May 2024Uncategorised

Purpose

Why did we walk from the the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Sea on the south coast of Spain? Probably no good reason, but that’s humans for you.

4 May 2024Uncategorised

Taylor Swift Everywhere

Taylor Swift is as ubiquitous as AI but no more immune to its effects than the rest of the population.

27 April 2024Uncategorised

AI Everywhere

How fast is AI developing? Faster than I, or Geoffrey Hinton – the ‘father of AI’ – would have believed. Here’s a story of AI chatbots replacing friends that shifted from fiction to fact in less than 5 years.

20 April 2024Uncategorised

How Far Do We Have to Go?

There are so many ways to measure how far you have to walk, metric is easiest but links, chains and furlongs are entertaining.

13 April 2024Uncategorised

Natural Hydrogen – what the H2?

Why the excitement over natural hydrogen that’s bubbled up in New Zealand? Is this the clean green energy of the future? Or a speculator’s dream? And why are Shane Jones and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer debating who might own it?

6 April 2024Uncategorised

When in Norway…

As well as seeing fantastic arctic Norwegian scenery, we’ve learned a little about Norwegian culture while ski touring. Here are some highlights…

30 March 2024Uncategorised

Reverence

Have the majority of humans collectively lost our sense of reverence for the wild? For environments we are not actively managing? Has sci-tech been a significant driver of that loss?