The Hand Mirror

For a bit of 2012 and most of 2013 I borrowed the Auckland Frocks on Bike bike to see if I could get around on two pedals.  I've written...

Does it ever make you cringe when you see someone who is overweight gouging themselves on takeaways? No, no it doesn't actually. I r...

Last night I went to see Gasland , a documentary about Josh Fox wandering around the United States and talking to people with fracking rig...

Here's another International Women's Day event, to add to these ones I mentioned earlier in the week: Auckland - Lunch with Kirib...

i like to think of myself as someone who cares about the environment. i'm concientious with recycling & separate out all my paper, ...

Monday 19th October - National Day of Action against funding cuts to sexual abuse counselling : AUCKLAND: Meet at 12pm, Albert Park band rot...

I went and saw the documentary The Age of Stupid the other night. It is good. You should see it. And yes, I cried (for me it was the bit...

Fourteen years ago, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his fellow Nigerian activists were put to death by the Nigerian state, with the collusion of ...

I actually quite like fashion - but on other people. Personally, I can't be arsed with it. I feel vague envy of the tastefully, expens...

Wellington features Professor Phillipa Howden-Chapman on healthy homes tomorrow Thursday night: When: Wednesday Thursday 14th May, from 5....

From Reuters, via Stuff: Overweight people eat more than thin people and are more likely to travel by car, making excess body weight doubly ...

Some days it feels like parental choices only make life harder. Public or private schooling, breastfeeding or formula-fed, natural birth or...

I'm a nerd. I like books and documentaries. I also like the environment, and diligently minimise waste and recycle. For these reasons...

Tonight the Large Hadron Collider fires up for the first time. It could be the end of us, or it could be the beginning of a new era of scien...

In response to my earlier post on sport and violence , I found the following comment: …the idea that because a man is an environmentalist or...

Last night was Earth Hour . All over the world* people pledged to turn their lights off from 8pm to 9pm (local time) to show their commitmen...