一项最新研究指出，长期在工作环境中接触农药，可能与运动神经元病（Motor Neurone Disease，MND）的患病风险升高有关。其中，经常接触除草剂的人群，其患肌萎缩侧索硬化症（Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis，ALS）的风险可能高出约70%。
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Whakarongo ki ngā kaumātua: mā te kōrero tuku iho ka whai kāinga ngā mahara
He aratohu māhaki mō te whakarongo, te ui pātai me te tiaki i ngā kōrero a ngā kaumātua. Ehara te hopu reo i te tango kōrero noa iho; he hononga, he whakaaetanga, he taonga mā ngā uri.
Podcast Pick: The Science of Happiness finds awe on an ordinary walk
How to Find the Wow in Life makes awe practical without turning it into another performance target. The episode invites adults and children to slow down, notice and follow curiosity close to home.
YouTube Pick: Asianometry explains how Japan learned to make semiconductors
Asianometry’s history of Japan’s semiconductor rise shows that industrial capability is accumulated through licensing, production learning, institutions and markets, not created by a single factory announcement.
Cutting Total Mobility support asks disabled New Zealanders to pay more for an incomplete transport system
The Total Mobility subsidy fell from 75% to 65% on 1 July 2026. Treating the change as a fare adjustment ignores that many users have no workable bus, train or walking alternative.
The e-waste economy cannot be called circular while children absorb the toxins
The world generated 62 million tonnes of e-waste in 2022, with only 22.3% documented as formally recycled. A just circular economy must protect informal workers and children, not merely recover valuable metals.
A heat warning is not a heat-health plan
WHO’s 2026 guidance treats extreme heat as a coordinated public-health risk. Forecasts save lives only when cities connect warnings to housing, care, labour rules, cooling access and health surveillance.
China wants to professionalise domestic work. The real test begins inside the home
China’s new domestic-services measures support insurance, standards, training and home-based elder care. Professionalisation will depend on enforceable contracts, portable skills and protection for workers in private households.
New Zealand’s next census will be continuous. Public trust must be continuous too
The next census will combine administrative records with a continuous survey. Fresher statistics could improve planning, but coverage, privacy, small-community detail and transparent quality measures will determine legitimacy.
Climate adaptation plans will expose New Zealand’s hardest question: who pays before disaster?
New legislation would require councils to plan for priority climate-risk areas. Maps and plans matter, but durable adaptation depends on transparent cost-sharing before property, insurance and infrastructure decisions harden.