Fence Lines

I spent a long time at university, taking science papers and undertaking scientific research.

We become frustrated when the "science changes" — it makes us distrust information we are given.

When I was in primary school, I lined up with hundreds of others along Highgate to catch a glimpse of the Queen — a brief wave through a car window and the excitement was over.

Biodiversity is the new orange, or black, or whatever is on-trend/vital to have.

I have come to the realisation that I suffer from "nomophobia", which means I have a behavioural addiction to my phone.

It's the end of a long week – I am sitting in the wonder that is Los Angeles airport.

I showed my student son ChatGPT and we got it to write an essay on the causes of New Zealand river pollution — his eyes lit up as he watched the essay being formed in a matter of minutes.

The food world is at war — the old versus the new, the processed versus the unprocessed, meat versus plants.

The methane debate is hotting up in New Zealand as livestock farmers face a bevy of regulations and legislation driving conversion of hill country farms into forestry and carbon farming (often...

There is a lot of discussion about political polarisation at the moment and my exposure to extreme opinions was given a kick-start while travelling in the United States last month.

We are often taught to believe that "bigger is better" — bigger teams, bigger production systems, bigger farms, bigger businesses, bigger banks.

Howdy from Texas.