New Zealand Conservative

Over paid (by you) upper middle class twits continue to push their obsessions Dads' lazy eating habits are partly to blame for childhood obesity in New Zealand, a leading paediatric health researcher says. Professor Barry Taylor hopes his latest research will get to the bottom of the alarmingly increasing rate of childhood obesity . About 20 per cent of New Zealand children are regarded as overweight, with a further 10 per cent considered obese. Taylor, head of paediatrics at the Dunedin School of Medicine, is investigating methods to prevent rapid weight gain in early childhood. He's got a 2.3 million grant to fund his latest research but he has already decided that blue top milk should not be given to children. "I'll often find that the father has insisted on having [full fat] blue-label milk because they don't like the [low fat] green-label. Even though it's been recommended for many years after the age of two that you should not drink blue milk ...

Well good luck don't let the door hit you on the way out An associate professor, who has worked at the university for almost 20 years, said changes to his timetable had led him to look for a job overseas. Quelle horreur He has to take a class at 8am on one day of the week. He would now be required to take a class at 8am and his last class that day was scheduled to start at 5pm. On another day, he had classes from 9am to 10am and then from 11am to 3pm. Perhaps a few years working 12 hour shifts in a coal mine might bring about a change of perspective? Source: Varsity staff angered by changes to timetables

There's a study just been published in Elsevier's Evolution and Human Behaviour Journal that shows this good-looking and more manly men are better in bed and more likely to get their partners pregnant. However some remain unconvinced Sex Therapy New Zealand director Robyn Salisbury said she was surprised by the findings, which ran the risk of affirming sexual myths and adding to the arrogance of good-looking people. Sniff Update: Looks like a man might be able to sire more babies if he eats more mangoes and apricots according to research from Australia. Who pays for all this stuff? And why?

The mess with the Whitireia Polytechnic Independent Students Association just gets bigger and bigger. In my last post on the matter I speculated that the $750,000 that was missing might have been a misprint and the number was lower by a factor of 10. Not so its over $1,000,000 now! And the vice President and cousin of the President, pictured, at the time of this fiasco was not long out of prison it seems. Charming. I suspect that Sir Roger Douglas voluntary students union bill just might sail through Parliament.

What is the connection between, The tomb of Jesus, Hiroshima and Victoria University? The answer is Charles Pellegrino, who has written books on the first two and claims to having obtained his PhD from the last. The tomb of Jesus book was taken up with gusto by the Discovery Channel, even though the scholarship behind it was obviously meagre. James Cameron (of Avatar fame) was interested in making a film on the Hiroshima book and indeed Charles Pellegrino was a scientific advisor for Avatar and also provided much of the material used in Titanic. So Charles Pellegrino was on a roll until the New York Times picked up one dodgy source in the Hiroshima book and started probing ..... And one of the things they checked out was Mr Pellegrino's Victoria University PhD . And apparently just like the some of the sources in his books it doesn't exist.