We are all airheads
By Sarah Barnett in Uncategorized
Issue 3490 31st Mar 2007
Australian journalist Shelley Gare on how the world went mad.
Half a chance
By Marilyn Head in Uncategorized
Issue 3490 31st Mar 2007
The odds on humanity surviving are less than 50/50, Nobel Prize winner Sir Harry Kroto tells Marilyn Head.
Growth industry
1 CommentsBy Maggie Barry in Uncategorized
Issue 3490 31st Mar 2007
Bev McConnell turned a patch of grass into one of New Zealand's finest gardens with big dreams, hard work and plenty of imagination. Maggie Barry joins this gardening pioneer for lunch.
Left behind
By Simon Wilson in Uncategorized
Issue 3490 31st Mar 2007
Has the liberal left really lost its way since the end of socialism? Are the West's anti-war protesters really aligning themselves with misogynists and anti-Semites in the Muslim world? "Controversial and scathing" columnist Nick Cohen thinks so.
The superiority of science
By Michael C Corballis in Uncategorized
Issue 3490 31st Mar 2007
A leading scientist is puzzled: why do the majority of people persist in holding religious beliefs?
The vampire within
By Charlotte Grimshaw in Uncategorized
Issue 3490 31st Mar 2007
This beautifully written novel plays ingenious tricks with the story of Byron and his surgeon, Polidori.
Downwards
By Terry Snow in Uncategorized
Issue 3490 31st Mar 2007
Crime in Sweden, Florida and Sydney.