8 December 2025
A few months ago, I attended a talk given at the Wellington Humanists about consciousness. In the middle of the talk we were shown a short, 5 minute segment of a documentary piece that shows animals, from elephants all the way down to caterpillars, getting drunk after eating fermented marula fruit.
9 June 2025
Recently someone shared with me an article from the March 2025 issue of the “Brooklyn Tattler”, a monthly magazine for the residents of Brooklyn, Wellington. The article in question was written by someone from the Brooklyn Wellness Hub, a group of “natural” health practitioners local to the area. The obvious nonsense that I was being shown was part of a list of tips for growing vegetables and fruit in your garden, and it advised readers to:
1 May 2007
Four Papua New Guinea women, believed by fellow villagers to have used sorcery to cause a fatal road crash, were tortured with hot metal rods to confess, then murdered and buried standing up in a pit (Stuff, 25 January).