How do predators help farmers?
By Christopher O’Bryan, Eve McDonald-Madden, James Watson, Neil Carter Predators are helping farmers and reducing car crashes with surprising results. Humans may be Earth’s apex predator, but the fleeting shadow of a vulture or the glimpse of a big cat can cause...
Why is China the way it is politically? ▶
Stephen Noakes from the School of Science at the University of Auckland talks about his big question, “why is China the way it is politically?” Noakes is currently engaged in a pair of book projects. The first is a cross-national comparative study of China’s...
Q+A: Are there secondhand consequences of new smoking policies?
The New Zealand Government adopted the “Smokefree 2025” policy in March 2011. The aim of the policy is to bring smoking rates to below five percent of all population groups by December 2025. Arguably, the main measure for achieving this goal is the attempt to make...
How do we respond to survivors of institutional abuse in care? ▶
Stephen Winter from the School of Social Sciences at the University of Auckland talks about his big question, “how do we respond to survivors of institutional abuse in care?” Winter tends to work on questions of state wrongdoing and its redress. At present, he is...
What is the infinite game? 🔊
Living life as an infinite game, that is something Niki Harré explores in her new book The Infinite Game. She looks at our society (are people pawns or participants?) and ourselves (what kind of player would you like to be?) to offer a uniquely different vision of how...
How do we restore marine ecosystems? ▶
Professor Simon Thrush from the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Auckland talks about his big question, “how do we restore marine ecosystems?” Thrush’s current research interests focus on the ecology of coastal ecosystems, how they respond to...
How did the Space Race realise dreams of spaceflight (while threatening Earth’s destruction)?
By Ben Goldson “Downpour notwithstanding, Manchester let Yuri Gagarin in no doubt that the great city had never had a more welcome visitor” “Hail Gagarin”. British Pathe Newsreel, July 1961 On 12 April 1961, from a launch pad deep inside the...Subscribe by Email
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