Television icon Nigel Latta returns to TV, and this time he’s focused on the one thing that governs us all: the brain. Haimona Grey talks to the man himself. “Our belief has always been that people are interested in interesting things. Sometimes TV patronises the audience, it has a belief that people won’t stay if … Read more
Hobson’s Pledge and their ilk argue for a culture that treats everyone the same. Anthropologist Haimona Gray looks at what’s actually at stake when we embrace multiculturalism. Go look at a wall! Is it very different to say, dirt? It is, because a wall is not a natural phenomenon. A person made that wall, but … Read more
Lots of people can’t drive, including Haimona Gray. He talks to a few famous people who are similarly impaired, and gets behind the wheel in the only way he knows how: video games. My first memory of driving a car involves the 1994 Sega arcade classic, Daytona USA. As of writing, it remains the closest … Read more
The mighty John Madden Football series turns 30 today – a huge achievement for any game series. Haimona Gray looks at how the series has matured and mutated over the past three decades. Picture 22 athletes at the top of their fields competing at a level they had to forgo the majority of childhood to … Read more
The Allegory of the Cave, and Madden: Haimona Gray muses on how the two are actually pretty similar, using his own (limited) experience with sport and his (not-so-limited) experience with sports video games. I have never dunked in real life. Plato probably didn’t either. What makes Plato and I different – besides location, era, and cleanliness … Read more
A range of globally recognised public health concepts could improve our current system, many of which go beyond simply chucking money at the problem, writes Haimona Gray. In my relatively brief 28 years of life I have been a paid defender of the public health system, a paid apologist for the public health system, a paid … Read more
Māori need more than just loud voices and ‘colourful characters’ – we need thought leaders, writes Haimona Gray Imagine you are the child of two famous political dynasties. Now imagine one of these families has been responsible for reducing cigarette smoking in your community at a world leading rate. Imagine someone from this same family … Read more