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Katherine

May 18, 2011 by  
Filed under Main Blog

What’s in a name? Something and everything. Many of us wonder what our parents were thinking when they named us but sometimes I think life has a way of showing us there’s rhyme and reason beyond even what they intended.

Gehan Gunasekara: Franchising & Privacy Law

May 18, 2011 by  
Filed under 5 KURIOUS Kiwi Questions

“Gehan Gunasekara specialises in the areas of franchising law and information privacy law. He has published widely in these areas both locally and overseas. He has contributed to the literature on the need for the protection of whistle-blowers.

Aram Sinnreich: The Next Generation Internet

May 17, 2011 by  
Filed under VidStyle

Aram Sinnreich envisions a new internet that uses mesh networking to produce a stable, ad hoc, global wireless network in which each user is a router, server and client combined, and in which no single state or organisation can effectively censor or surveil the population on a broad scale.

Louie Schwartzberg: The Hidden Beauty of Pollination

May 13, 2011 by  
Filed under VidStyle

Pollination is vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film ‘Wings of Life’, inspired by the vanishing of one of nature’s primary pollinators, the honeybee.

Aicha el-Wafi and Phyllis Rodriguez: 9/11 Mothers

May 13, 2011 by  
Filed under VidStyle

Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss. Phyllis’ son was killed in the World Trade Centre attacks on September 11, 2001; Aicha’s son Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted of a role in those attacks and is serving a life sentence. In hoping to find peace, these two mums have come […]

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