With just a few strokes of chalk, we see that lightning and rainbows are drawn from the same well of knowledge. What’s delightful, from the teacher’s perspective, is that this last step is much simp…
It is worth pausing to recognise the extent to which New Zealand and New Zealanders have achieved something remarkable in space. And I am looking forward to seeing what we – and my students – do n…
Amongst everything else that happened in 2023 a key anniversary for a landmark in our understanding of the Universe passed largely unnoticed – the centenary of the realisation that not o…
My mother and father – whose own childhoods took place against the backdrop of the Pacific War and the Blitz, respectively – hoped that their children’s lives would be safer and more comforta…