Happy meat
I know a guy who stopped traffic to save worms from being run over. He spent an hour rescuing what he said was “all the worms in Mount Albert”. Later that night...
Tag: world views
Art is not your enemy
If you consider yourself to be an advocate of the poor and the disadvantaged, please know that you are not alone. Please also remember that the art community is...
Love and tears in a man’s world
Speaking to a gathering of senior female scientists last week, Sir Tim Hunt said, “Let me tell you about my trouble with girls. Three things happen when they ar...
No longer centre of the universe
... I have been thinking about empathy, about how hard it is to view the world through anything other than our own egocentric perspective. That’s because we liv...
Whisky escape
... If you were to shuffle our three brains and deal them out like a pack of cards you would find, in random order, a librarian, doctor, poet, christian, humani...
Gay marriage
... This slippery slope argument we’ve been hearing from some quarters drives me particularly bonkers. The slippery slope argument implies we are on the verge o...