Nick Young

This video is a powerful, awe-inspiring talk by neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor, who had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered [...]

This is unbelievable. The aluminium smelter in Southland uses a huge amount of electricity, indeed a huge percentage of NZ’s total electricity consumption and would therefore be faced with some additional costs under the Govt’s polluter pays Emissions Trading Scheme. Fair enough I would have thought but the boys at Rio Tinto have [...]