Aug 5, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Science & Technology
By Emily Parke & Dan Hikuroa Let’s choose our words more carefully when discussing mātauranga Māori and science. Responding to the recent controversy over mātauranga Māori and the letter he co-authored titled “In defence of science”, Emeritus Professor Michael...
Aug 4, 2021 | Business & Economics, Science & Technology
By Niels Wouters & Jeannie Paterson TikTok is hugely popular. But its latest decision to capture unique digital copies of your face and voice is a cybersecurity threat to your identity and privacy. With more than one billion users since 2017, TikTok is one of the...
Aug 4, 2021 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Dame Anne Salmond A new column from Dame Anne Salmond challenges the legalistic, one side up against the other approach to race relations and the Treaty of Waitangi of the past 40 years. Racist thinking runs deep. As Jess Berentson-Shaw observed in ‘Why Anti-Racism...
Aug 3, 2021 | Politics & Society
Following the development of the atomic bomb and its use against Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States was confronted about the concerns of the development of nuclear weaponry. But the technology also presumably held peaceful uses ranging from the use of nuclear...
Aug 3, 2021 | Politics & Society, Science & Technology
By Alexander Gillespie Calling out China for cyberattacks is risky — but a lawless digital world is even riskier. Today’s multi-country condemnation of cyber-attacks by Chinese state-sponsored agencies was a sign of increasing frustration at recent behaviour. But it...
Aug 2, 2021 | Politics & Society
By Stephen Hoadley Stephen Hoadley cautions New Zealanders to take into account the security risks – and the economic opportunities – presented by the fragile inter-Korean armistice, and to be aware of the shifting power balances of the East Asian region....
Aug 2, 2021 | Politics & Society
The U.S. Senate is a unique legislative body in that it often requires a supermajority of sixty votes in favour of a legislation for a bill to pass. This is due to an historic institution called the filibuster. But the filibuster is not exactly like we think. Instead,...
Aug 2, 2021 | Science & Technology
By Erik Peper & Moncia Almendras Why is it that after studying, working, entertaining and socialising at the computer screen or looking at texts, Instagram, Facebook, Tiktok and responding to notifications on the cellphone, we often feel exhausted (Zoom fatigue)...