Ed Amon

It’s time to talk about a tradition that has been with us for millennia – eating with our hands. It’s a practice many cultures have...

It’s Spring and I’m trying to be healthy, like everyone else – but I hate it, like everyone else. I hate it because of the...

“Buzz off back to Africa Sanjay!” These were the words said to me in anger as I dismounted the Northern Express near Auckland University a...

In my last column I talked about my impending fatherhood and how my frame of reference for life is going to shift once my pēpē...

I am going to have a baby this summer. The news did not come as a shock because we planned it. The shock came when...

Life seems to be a series of milestones. Our big brains have trained us to organise our lives in neat chunks. As soon as we...

I will travel to Pakistan in April. It has been three years since I was last in the country of my birth. It is compulsory...

Let’s get the record straight about curry. I have been called a ‘curry muncher’, a multitude of times, so why not own the racist slur...

It is Christmas time. It is the best time of year. I am not Christian, but one does not have to believe in the Trinity...

There are two things common in all living beings that drive evolution for most of us – survival and reproduction. Food and sex.  No wonder...