Improper Thoughts
When can we use stereotypes as a useful heuristic to interact with other people? And when are stereotypes abhorrent? Some of the time? All the time? And would you put a pink flamingo in your garden?
Tag: truth
Dots, Crickets and Kissy Faces
What do dots, crickets and kissy faces have in common? They are all slang, slang having become as much written as spoken in the digital age. Read on to find out what they mean.
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.
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?
Only A Spider
Why are human lives considered to be so much more valuable than lives of animals, whatever state a human is in?
Trigger Warnings
‘Trigger warnings – useful flag, cotton wool coddling or statements without impact? There are as many opponents as adherents. Which are you?
Microbial Mates
Who is in charge of your eating, your stress patterns, your emotions? You? Your microbiome? Or is it a joint effort?
Truth & Fiction
The line between truth and fiction is stretched thin to the point of invisibility. We encounter this line constantly, in the media, and in memoir. Memories are fallible. Do we care?
Politics & Promises
The general election is coming, like Christmas but even less fun than hearing Snoopy’s Christmas every day for two months. The hoardings are up. So how do they look?
Names & Idealogies
Can using someone’s preferred name be idealogical unpalatable? And is this something the Free Speech Union should be protesting about? An interesting New Zealand case is in the news again.