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?
Tag: New Zealand
Taboo topics
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 …
When life serves you cucumbers … you could put them on your face. Or, preferably, make great soup.
Singing & Biking
What is the similarity between singing and biking? In the learning, it turns out, as I discovered this week.
Mirages & politicians
The news of the week in New Zealand has to be Jacinda Ardern’s resignation. The above photo is as close as we […]
Solar power
Why did we install PV? To save money? Be good planet-savers? Make our own power? Because we’re geeks? A little of everything?
Where’s COVID at?
Wearing masks is not normal, then it becomes normal, then it becomes not normal again. What is normal in the time of COVID Scrabble variants?
Power of the People
New Zealand is a country where you can change the course of an election by asking someone a question …
When Things Don’t Work
There’s a world of hidden subsidies out there propping our pleasant first world experience of life
Goodbye traffic lights
New Zealand took a major step in its COVID-19 trajectory this week, removing the traffic light system which (theoretically) controlled behaviour according to numbers of cases of COVID-19. Are we glad to see it go?