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The story of when Salman Rushdie schooled me on the topic of authoritarian hate and intolerance...

A few days ago I saw an article which really threw me for a loop. It turns out that most New Zealand retirement savings schemes (“KiwiSaver” funds) have shareholdings in tobacco companies, and in companies that manufacture cluster bombs, land mines, or nuclear weapons...

The New Zealand flag redesign “process” has been widely criticized and roundly ridiculed, for good reason...

(this article was first posted at eSocSci.org.nz) On 31 October 2014, the world’s first commercial passenger space ship crashed, killing the co-pilot and seriously injuring the pilot. SpaceShipTwo (also known as ‘VSS Enterprise’) was undergoing tests after being reconfigured into what was intended to be the final state to take on passengers for suborbital joyrides to the edge of space...