Former cyclone Lusi wasn't the only wild, hot air over the weekend. That deafening sucking sound you heard was elements of the political right having a massive tantrum because the Judith Collins story ...

It's hardly new that for science to play its part in public life, complex and difficult ideas must be communicated to the public. The works of Einstein and Bohr, for example, embodied the strangest ...

"Go the All Blacks!" said the young woman. I smiled and gave her the thumbs up. It was a scene so ubiquitous on Cup Final Day as to barely be worth remarking on -- were it not for the fact that I was ...

Firstly: Kim Dotcom did not "admit to hacking" at the Internet-Mana campaign launch today, as both network news shows claimed this evening. His "teenage hacker made good" story is Dotcom Bio 101. It's ...

Earlier this week, Act Party leader Jamie Whyte notified the world that he had delivered a speech entitled Race has no place in the law and, it seemed, sat back in anticipation of plaudits for his ...

In 2006, I was lucky enough to get in on an analyst briefing at IBM's Alamaden Research Centre, near San Jose.It was a memorable day. The place itself -- a monumental California modernist building on ...

My taxi driver had a theory, as taxi drivers often do -- especially when they've had a lot of time to sit in their cars and ruminate. At about 12.30am on Friday morning, on Queen Street, I was only ...

As you all know by now, Louisa Wall's marriage equality bill has been pulled from the ballot. And I guess you've all been waiting in breathless anticipation to find out how I feel about it. Yeah. Me ...

It's almost exactly three months since the New Zealand Herald's 'Diary' columnist Rachel Glucina announced in a tweet that she had been "headhunted" by Mediaworks "for a joint venture partnership to ...

I understand why London Mayor Boris Johnson pitched his city's near-billion-pound plan for cycle infrastructure as a bid to "de-Lycrafy cycling". The idea that cycling takes special clothing isn't ...

As a teenager, I got myself in the mood for my exams by playing the theme from Rocky before I left the house and biked to school. It sounds a little cheesy now, but it seemed to do the trick then. And ...

Public Address won the NetGuide People's Choice Award for Best Blog last night; which as I pointed out when I went up to accept it, was all the more remarkable for the fact that I forgot to suggest ...