Simon Marvin Director, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield Allan McCay Academic Fellow, University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney Elon Musk’s company called Neuralink, launched in 2016, aims to implant a piece of technology in people’s brains that would allow them to control a computer or phone
Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.substack.com Is another Green MP on their way out? And are the Greens severely tarnished by another integrity scandal? For the second time in three months, the Green Party has
David Menkes Associate Professor in Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland Pharmaceutical industry payments to doctors are common, often substantial, and can affect clinical decision making. Seven years after the industry trade association Medicines New Zealand first mooted a disclosure system, pharmaceutical companies operating in New Zealand recently revealed their financial
Dr Latus Dextro PhD clinician drlatusdextro.substack.com stooge: a person who is forced or paid by someone in authority to do an unpleasant or secret job for them synonyms of ‘stooge’ In 2017 Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted a pandemic ‘…So, the thing we’re extraordinarily confident about is that
Critics of “diversity, equity, and inclusion programs” (DEI) highlight that determining the realised value of DEI, of preferring staff according to their immutable characteristics e.g., race, sex, or gender, may be biased, complex, and context-dependent. Rarely acknowledged and almost never reported is that DEI initiatives can be costly, problematic,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Reading the NZ Herald a couple of weeks back, I encountered a full page article under the heading “SMALL BUSINESS Q&A”. It included a large photo of two affable looking blokes, their shirts hanging out, both clad in blue jeans and with their
bassettbrashandhide.com My name is Amy. My husband Hamish and I farm sheep and beef near Clinton in Southland. We use regenerative farming methods following the advice of a Dr Christine Jones. We spent months researching the options before taking the decision. Dr Jones is a leader in regenerative farming.
Bryce Edwards Political Analyst in Residence, director of the Democracy Project, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.substack.com The ability of the private sector to quickly establish major new projects making use of the urban and natural environment is to be supercharged by the new National-led government.
cfact.org Federal and state energy policies, now pushing electric vehicles on a reluctant public, are running in conflict with other social and environmental restrictions banning vital materials and component imports. As a consequence, U.S. and European auto companies are racing into Chinese rare earth monopoly and other supply
cfact.org Mandating a change to EV ownership and further financial austerity onto those who can least afford it is facing a rebellion from those who need transportation. The problem is that manufacturers are loading up the ‘supply chain’ with EVs on dealer lots, but they’re not seeing the
Christian Toto newsbusters.org Few would deny Disney is in serious trouble. Stock woes. Box office flops (Wish, Haunted Mansion, The Marvels). Theme park struggles. Beloved brands struggling for relevancy after years of culture dominance (Indiana Jones, Pixar, Star Wars, the MCU). There’s a cottage industry of alternative media
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com There are one million frozen embryos in IVF clinics across the United States and they are all “extrauterine children”. That is the stunning opinion handed down last week by the Alabama Supreme Court and it has sent shivers up and
David Livermore David Livermore is retired Professor of Microbiology, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. brownstone.org War spurs medical innovation. Ambulances to swiftly deliver the casualties of Napoleon’s armies to field surgeons were the brainchild of Jean-Dominique Larrey. Florence Nightingale established professional nursing in the Crimea. The Kaiser’
cfact.org Feeling the heat from farmers dumping manure in front of government buildings across the Continent, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is pumping the brakes on a pillar of the European Union’s Net-Zero climate policy and withdrawing an EU-wide bill that would force farmers to reduce
Harry Palmer Born in food-shortage Britain towards the end of WWII, I got used to my day starting with a bowl of porridge, made with water of course, unlike today’s Harraways product cooked in milk (and made in minutes in a microwave, too). So I was startled to see
bobmccoskrie.com Exclusive ACC NZ released documentation to employees yesterday which requires employees to ‘support’ the transition of another employee, that a refusal to use preferred pronouns (not just the changed name) will constitute discrimination, bullying or harassment, and that the person changing their sex can use the toilet of
