Hail a cab in Auckland or other large New Zealand centre and, chances are, the driver will be from Asia, particularly from the Indian subcontinent. Immigrants have become a major force in taxi industries the world over, but how has this come about locally?...
Joseph Hatch was one of New Zealand’s most tenacious entrepreneurs. He set up the southern-most steaming works in the world and the oil it produced brought significant wealth, first to Invercargill, then to Hobart. It was just a pity that Hatch, who listed his occupation as “oil factor”, meaning oil agent, chose to extract that […]...
A century has passed since 1905, a watershed for physics. In that year, the quantum theory of light was first described in a paper dealing with the photoelectric effect. A subsequent flurry of investigation on this theme—with considerable input by the same author—led to the revolutionary development of quantum mechanics....
