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MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE

If it weren’t for good old chemistry, where would New Zealand be?
Listener: 24 January, 2009
A background to this column is ‘My (Almost) Chemical Career’ at http://www.eastonbh.ac.nz/?p=1541

Keywords: Education; Growth & Innovation;

I almost became a chemist. In the upper forms at Christchurch Boys’ High School I had an inspiring chemistry teacher, Alan Wooff. He not only treated [...]

24th January 2009 | Comments Closed

NEEDS TO KNOW

Calculating the human condition 
 
Listener: 10 January, 2009 
 
Keywords: History of Ideas, Methodology & Philosophy;  
 
Social scientists use American psychologist Abraham Maslow’s “hierarchy of needs” as a way of characterising the human condition. 
 
Self-actualisation 
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Esteem 
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Love 
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Affection & Belonging 
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Safety Needs 
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Physiological Needs 
 
Often represented as a pyramid, this condition has physiological needs such as food, water and shelter at its base. A central [...]

10th January 2009 | Comments Closed

ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIAL IMPACTS OF GAMBLING IN NEW ZEALAND

Report to Ministry of Health by Centre for Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation & Te Ropu Whariki, Massey University.
 
Keywords: Health; Statistics;
 
“The report of the project Assessment of the Social Impacts of Gambling in New Zealand was primarily written by En-Yi (Judy) Lin and Sally  Casswell with analysis by Ru Quan (Ryan) [...]

5th January 2009 | Comments Closed