My interview with Cambridge High School’s principal on leading an online school and how he plans to deal with the challenges Covid-19 poses to education cambridgenews.nz/2020/05/its-ba…

In which students contemplate the alcoholic qualities of hand sanitizer... “A New Normal”: An Insight into New Zealand’s Cautious School Reopenings affinitymagazine.us/2020/05/30/a-n…

shorthand.radionz.co.nz/collateral-dam… via RNZ News

Someone, somewhere in NZ has a copy of Alice in Wonderland worth over $US2m: cool story about rare books by the best young writer in NZ journalism, Matteo Di Maio (Year 11 student in Cambridge) newsroom.co.nz/searching-for-…

"Along with the rest of New Zealand, Bella, a student at a high school in the North Island, found out that she was going into lockdown for four weeks on March 23. She 'entirely freaked out.'” affinitymagazine.us/2020/07/13/is-…

#BREAKING: Joe Biden certified as next President of the United States. Kamala Harris certified as next Vice President of the United States.

What literary masterpieces have New Zealand's politicians consumed over the summer? Biographies and history mostly - with a sprinkle of high fantasy newsroom.co.nz/we-know-what-y…

Amended story by Matteo from Cambridge High School, adds James Shaw's reads this summer FT the new one by @VUPBooks author Danyl McLauchlan newsroom.co.nz/we-know-what-y…

cambridgenews.nz/2021/01/back-o…

Business is booming for second-hand bookstores, with some store owners saying sales are currently above pre-Covid levels. Matteo Di Maio reports newsroom.co.nz/second-hand-bo…

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

The New Zealand novel that refuses to disappear dlvr.it/RvgvYf

affinitymagazine.us/2021/03/27/on-…

economist.com/science-and-te… Seems vaguely Ishiguro-esque…

Via the Bill McKibben from the New Yorker: “ And this will not require covering the globe with solar arrays: “The land required for solar panels alone to provide all global energy is 450,000 km2, 0.3% of the global land area of 149 million km2.”

The cumulative solar arrays that would power the world. Kinda weird that we haven't just done this yet. Image credit: Land Art Generator

Esoteric meme of the day

newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…