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I Would Scrap Many of Wellington’s Cycleways
Gary Moller Gary Moller is a Health Practitioner who is focused on addressing the root causes of ill health or poor performance by making use of a key forensic tool – Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis – and administering healthy, natural and sustainable therapies. Having ridden Wellington’s streets almost daily for 50
The Case for Coding Automated Vehicles With Human Values
Michelle Lazarus Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences While fully self-driving cars are a hypothetical product of the future, some levels of autonomous vehicles (AVs) are already here. As with other forms of AI, humans must weigh the costs and benefits of incorporating this new technology into
It Is a Nightmare on Grey Street
Tani Newton A near-continuous chorus of toots, cheers and waves greeted a gathering in central Gisborne last Wednesday. About 70 people met in Grey Street, holding signs, shouting messages and chalking on footpaths, to protest the controversial ‘upgrade’ of two blocks in the busy CBD. The project is being carried
Face of the Day
Moscow is off the travel menu for New Plymouth mayor Neil Holdom after his name was added to a burgeoning list of New Zealanders now banned from entering Russia. Holdom found out at the weekend that he had been included in a list released by the Russian foreign ministry detailing
Face of the Day
It starts off with a glum opening line, “I wouldn’t come here, to be honest”, and then goes downhill from there. But this is a tourism advert that has been labelled “brilliant”. Visit Oslo’s downbeat campaign is the antithesis to those shiny happy tourism videos which normally try
World’s Best Airlines Revealed
Chris Lynch Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. Qatar Airways has been voted the World’s Best Airline at the 2024 World Airline Awards, the eighth time that the airline has scooped the Airline of
Surviving Winter without Your Gasoline Car
Steve Goreham Steve Goreham is a speaker, author, and independent columnist on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. More than 100,000 copies of his books are now in print, including his latest, Outside the Green Box: Rethinking Sustainable Development. cfact.org January of this year brought near-zero temperatures
Face of the Day
Many of the 3100 Auckland roads with speed reductions since 2020 look set to be reversed under what Transport Minister Simeon Brown calls “nanny state” regulations to slow motorists down. On Thursday, Brown announced he is proceeding with an election promise to reverse the previous Labour Government’s blanket speed
The Amazing Achievements of Waka Konetahi
Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Years 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.
The Airport: Will They or Won’t They?
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com We had a meeting about the airport just before Christmas. That’s Tarras airport, the mega-proposal that Christchurch International Airport
We Can’t Ban Our Way to a Better World
Charles Krblich Chuck Krblich works in the insurance and reinsurance industries as a catastrophe manager. brownstone.org Il nous faut de l’audace, encore de l’audace, toujours de l’audace! (We need audacity, more audacity, always audacity!) Georges Jacques Danton Just a short time ago, on a Saturday, before
Neon Mist
upallnight.tokyo “There’s something special about Japan,” intimated the old man, drawing my curiosity by letting the statement hang. “I’d like to know about that.” I eventually prompted after an extended pause, leaning in. “Well, you see, Japan has four seasons.” And with that, he sat back. The
The BFD Food Column: Christmas in Vienna
Given the opportunity to take a short break from the rigours of the daily ‘kitchen grind’ and the accumulating stresses of the never-ending war between Israel and Hamas, we enjoyed a short winter break in the Austrian capital of Vienna. Vienna in winter naturally has a smaller volume of tourists
Fired for Doing His Job
by Danelle Morton and Topher Sanders, with additional reporting by Jessica Lussenhop ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Train Country; Investigating Railroad Safety in America As powerful railroad companies race to maximize