New Zealand is a beautiful country. Grandiose mountain ranges, oceans, lakes, and huge expanses of unpopulated landscape. But, despite its clean green image, it hasn’t managed to avoid the pitfalls of modern society, and is grappling with resource management issues, energy shortages...

Digital Penetration: Are you up for this? Are you ready to get naked for your country? US airports start using "backscatter X-ray machines" to see through your clothes. The first machine is up and running in Phoenix. Next for New York and Los Angeles, USA...

CheatNeutral claims that when you cheat on your partner you add to the heartbreak, pain and jealousy in the atmosphere. So cheatneutral offsets your cheating by funding someone else to be faithful and NOT cheat. This neutralises the pain and unhappy emotion and leaves you with a clear conscience.

New Zealanders are being urged to reduce their carbon footprint by going on a 'low carbon' diet, in a campaign launched today by Associate Minister of Transport Judith Tizard.

Dick Hubbard is making it easy for anyone including the local chimpanzees at the zoo to defeat him at the local body elections. Todays effort in the gaffe-a-thon is involving himself in the employment matters of the Police and Clint Rickards...

The NZ Herald has taken the "throwaway" remark from Clint Rickards' lawyer that half of NZers have engaged in group sex as an excuse to write a story about how frequent it is. They dig up a Durex survey which...

Details on how to add a ScoopIt icon to the WordPress Sociable plugin.

Politics are everywhere in Beirut. From the city's west coast to Downtown, the mood is calm but tense. There have been no outbursts for over two weeks, but the political deadlock continues?

Kamala Sarup - She told me "My daily life's routine has started. The large city of prostitute brothel which is terrifying to look at with its tall buildings, I felt as if everyone who lived inside felt satisfied and they quenched their hunger.

The government is introducing a "transition to work" subsidy of up to $1500 to help beneficiaries and low-income earners move into work. It's a small move, but a good one. Moving from a benefit into work costs money - you need work clothes, and ...

Woe is me, the planet is overheating and greenhouse gases are the cause -- or so say some. Scientists disagree as to the cause and ultimate effect of all this CO2 in the atmosphere, while the media rakes in cash from readers/viewers drawn in by all this doomsaying. How do we solve the problem?...

David Parker address to the 2nd International Conference on Sustainability Engineering and Science 9am, University of Auckland...

The government's Order Paper is getting a bit thin, and there's a danger of Parliament running out of things to do.

Photos of the circus-based outdoor show "Gravity and Other Myths", on now at the Wellington Fringe Festival.

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