Posts By: Asher Emanuel

Editorial – Power

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That the Power Issue coincides with the VUWSA General Election is a delightful but unintentional irony. It’s not our job (during the election) to pass comment or endorse candidates. Read more »

Losing The Age Of Innocence

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“Go down to the children’s hospital in Wellington. Have a walk through the wards. They will be jam-packed with kids with illnesses they don’t need to have. Respiratory illnesses. Skin infections.” “All of the diseases of child poverty in children have gone up,” continued Bryan Bruce, an award-winning New Zealand documentary maker. “We now have tuberculosis in NZ, which we didn’t have. We now have rheumatic fever, which we didn’t have. All of these third world diseases.” Read more »

Freedom of Mind

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In the summer of 1953, when Francis Crick stumbled through the front door of his home announcing to his dear wife that he had uncovered the double-helix structure of DNA, he brought about the single greatest leap in the field of genetics in history. At the time of this epiphany, he was tripping on LSD. Read more »