Don’t kill, spray, tear up, or destroy the weeds in your garden, yard, and fence rows. Many of them are actually highly-regarded, widely-used, and extremely-valuable medicinal herbs! What could be easier than growing an herb garden with no effort? Of course, you’ll have to harvest your edible ... Read more...
Peter Thiel raised a $32 million fund to invest in startups in... New Zealand, reports the WSJ. The reports say he "set up" or "opened a fund", but this is not technically true. As we reported more than a year ago, Thiel has been actively investing in New Zealand for many years. His New Zealand ... Read more...
You may have heard Vancouver's Kutcorners. Maybe not by name but certainly by sound. He's been supplying bass lines and remixes for the likes of U-Tern, DJ Eleven, DJ Ayres, The Kickdrums, and Keys N Krates for the last few years as well as touring with Canada's The Freshest DJ crew. Originally fr... Read more...
I've never said Officer Ricky was right about anything but... A hacker group angry at a PBS documentary about WikiLeaks hit back at the broadcaster by posting a fake story on its website claiming rapper Tupac Shakur was "alive and well" in New Zealand. The story on PBS' NewsHour site said ... Read more...
Trouble down under has led to a major controversy concerning the contamination of the food supply with genetically-modified organisms (GMO). Fonterra, a New Zealand-based cooperative that represents the world’s largest exporter of dairy products, has been pinned by Greenpeace Australia for all... Read more...
IAmNotADictionary Word Of The Day: Nativism - Nativism favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.[1] It may also include the re-establishment or perpetuation of such individuals or their culture. This may result... Read more...
The United States has dropped out of the "top 20" in a global league table of least corrupt nations, tarnished by financial scandals and the influence of money in politics, Transparency International said on Tuesday. Somalia was judged the most corrupt country, followed by Myanmar and Afghani... Read more...
In ‘Regimes, Pathways, Subjects’, Felix Guattari addresses the ‘machine addiction’ which he describes as: “an apparent democratization of access to data and modes of knowledge… a planetary intermixing of cultures, paradoxically accompanied by a rising tide of particularisms, racisms a... Read more...