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Tag: New Zealand

Kiwis and the sensible quest against toppling

January 20, 2015 Marc Abrahams

Richard Lehman writes (in his journal reviews column, in BMJ), about a standout article about standing up for standing up, in The Lancet: I do wish the world was run by New Zealanders. Unassumingly tough, kind and sensible, uninterested in adopting other people’s bad habits and neuroses, they are just wonderful at getting on with life. […]

Arts and Science, Research Newsfalling, injuries, New Zealand, the

Cat fighting, now and then

January 23, 2013 Marc Abrahams

Fighting words about the Internet’s favorite subject, cats: 1. The project to eliminate cats from New Zealand (described in Slate) 2. The 16th-century German cat bomb (described in The Atlantic), and which is shown in this painting along with a bird bomb:  

Arts and Scienceanimal, ban, bird, bomb, cat, fire, germany, New Zealand

Raincoat Non-Functionality in NZ

August 1, 2012 Martin Gardiner

Raincoat (Noun) ‘A waterproof or water-resistant coat worn to protect the body from rain.’ (Definition at Wikipedia). If you buy a raincoat, you may reasonably expect it to keep out the rain. But you may be disappointed. Attention is drawn to the failings of raincoats in a recent Master of Philosophy thesis from Auckland University […]

Arts and Science, Research NewsAuckland, New Zealand, rain, raincoat, wet

Farewell Spit, Hello Loneliness

August 20, 2011 Marc Abrahams

A lonely place, perhaps, is this building near the tip of Farewell Spit, New Zealand, as you will appreciate if you (1) click through to the original Google Maps image, then (2) zoom out to appreciate the neighborhood.

Arts and ScienceFarewell Spit, isolation, loneliness, New Zealand

Unambiguously ambiguous about slug sex

September 16, 2010 Marc Abrahams

New Zealand’s 3News has a good intentionally ambiguous headline: University investigating sea slug sex life Massey University is turning its skills on an ‘urgent, local issue’ – the sex life of a sea slug. “We want to find out who the slugs are having sex with,” says evolutionary geneticist Professor Paul Rainey. “Is it with […]

Arts and Scienceambiguous, New Zealand, sea slug, sex
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