What is behind the political unrest in Belarus? 🔊
On August 9, 2020, Belarussian voters went to the polls in a presidential election. Long-time president Alexander Lukashenko who has governed the nation since 1994 and who is often called Europe’s last dictator claimed victory. Lukashenko announced he had won the...
Is the cyberattack on NZX a wakeup call for New Zealand?
By Logan Carmichael On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX) halted trading as a result of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyberattacks. As most media outlets have explained, a DDoS attack takes place when a site is overwhelmed...
Should we be worried about COVID-19 conspiracy theories?
By M Dentith When the Prime Minister, Jacinda Arden, and the Director-General of Health, Ashley Bloomfield, announced that COVID-19 was once again in the community, certain people started asking awkward questions. Gerry Brownlee, Deputy Leader of the National Party,...
What are our rights when people commit wrongs? An examination about punishment as a right
By Sam Meyerhoff Earlier this year, the Equal Justice Project had the honour of making a presentation before the Justice Committee regarding the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill.[1] This landmark bill aimed to restore voting rights to...
Substance or descriptive representation: What Does Kamala Harris’s VP candidacy really represent?
By Oggy Nweke The representative nature of politicians can be judged by two measures: 1) descriptive representation, which refers to their closeness in characteristics to their constituents and the community at large[1] and 2) substantive representation – legislators’...
How did climate change make the melting of New Zealand’s glaciers ten times more likely?
By Lauren Vargo Glaciers around the world are melting — and for the first time, we can now directly attribute annual ice loss to climate change. We analysed two years in which glaciers in New Zealand melted the most in at least four decades: 2011 and 2018. Both years...
How can water help us adapt to survive as the climate changes? â–¶
The natural sciences that allow us to understand the environment are at the heart of developing strategies to adapt to, survive, and thrive as climate changes. Water is at the heart of many of the most complex problems in climate sciences: understanding the behavior...
Why does New Zealand need to focus on genome sequencing to trace the source of its new COVID-19 outbreak?
By David Welch Genetic surveillance — a technology that uses the genetic fingerprint of a virus to track its spread — is part of the public health response to New Zealand’s new COVID-19 community outbreak and could help pinpoint its source. There are now 17 cases of...
How does social media influence political campaigning and communication? 🔊
Social media has become a key feature in politics and communication and will likely play a significant role in the 2020 US election. The Trump administration has threatened sanctions against social media sites TikTok and WeChat, a move which...Subscribe by Email
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