Guest Author • May 08, 2018 •
Jeroen Douwes, Massey University and Geoffrey H. Donovan, United States Forest Service Since the pioneering work of architecture professor Roger Ulrich, who found that patients with a view of a natural scene recovered more quickly from surgery, research has shown that exposure to the natural environment is associated with a wide range of health benefits. Read More
Guest Author • Feb 27, 2018 •
Jason Paul Mika, Massey University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Māori entrepreneurs with a strong sense of cultural identity and guardianship over the land and the sea are driving a boom in Māori business. Māori businesses now account for an economic asset base of more than … Read More
Lynley Hargreaves • Jul 09, 2015 •
New Zealand author Robin Hyde was one of our most significant writers of poetry, fiction and journalism. She spent years in a mental hospital, smuggled her baby across Cook Strait in a hat box, but also wrote an acclaimed travel story in China during the Japanese invasion, and news of her death was covered on the front page of the … Read More
Ken Perrott • Oct 04, 2012 •
This sort of thing annoys me – not just because it excludes a large proportion of the population from social discussion. But also because it demonstrates a cultural blindness. Some people are so blinkered they won’t even acknowledge that elephant … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Griffin • May 04, 2012 •
This week’s show is an eclectic mix, taking you from the Swiss lab of cancer researcher Dr Chris Rodley to the Endeavour Crater on Mars where a robotic vehicle has identified evidence of water having existed there in the past. Dr Chris Rodley In between, we talk innovation with Sciblogger Peter Kerr and bring you the best … Read More
Ken Perrott • Aug 17, 2010 •
Quite a few local bloggers* have commented on the legal action some New Zealand climate deniers are taking to get NIWA to change its national temperature record. This is only the latest step in a nasty little campaign by these … Continue reading → … Read More