New Zealand – Page 6 – 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.

Back in New Zealand from South Korea, the almost complete lack of masks is really evident. What’s funny is how one’s norm […]

This week has demonstrated how a small number of people with the right connections can have big impact in New Zealand. Franco, […]

When things don’t work properly you want to fix them, right? The pictures above are illustrate one of those situations where a […]

The traffic light system was ignominiously dismissed at the beginning of this week, ending on September 12the. It’s apparently done its time […]

What is an excess profit? Too much, of course. But how much is too much? Times are getting tougher in New Zealand, […]

I hypothesise that the rise of AI will be driven by humans having created systems upon which we are dependent, and that […]