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A satisfying yet light Vietnamese-inspired dish that blends bitterness, chilli-heat and a little sweetness This recipe is inspired by the tasty Vietnamese classic Bò Lúc Lac, or ‘shaking beef’. The beef and marinade are traditional, and here I have paired the watercress salad with some bitter and peppery rocket and delightfully sweet blush pears, and dressed it all with a tangy balsamic sauce. Ingredients - 2 rib-eye steaks, each about…

At President Donald Trump’s press conference last week, the headlines focused on his warnings about Tylenol use in pregnancy. But buried in the spectacle was a far more explosive remark — one that almost nobody noticed. Trump said he wanted to remove aluminium from vaccines. Gasp! It was the most significant claim of the entire press conference, yet it passed virtually unnoticed, and no one in the press corps challenged it. If carried…

For the average middle-aged man, nothing short of a severed limb or full-blown cardiac arrest would convince them to see the doctor, something that will be highly familiar to concerned wives up and down the country. This reluctance has been captured in a new survey from AXA Global Healthcare which showed that while 88 per cent would fix a car issue within a week, only 47 per cent would seek to act as swiftly in response to a health problem. …

After months of anticipation, the Government has unveiled its electricity market reforms. The verdict from across the political spectrum is damning: the package is a damp squib. Despite soaring power prices and an energy crisis that saw factories shuttered and households shivering, the coalition’s package is startlingly modest. Newsroom journalist Marc Daalder was the first to label the plan a “damp squib” that ignores 8 of the 10 key…

**Maorification – Racism** If I was to promote a Pakeha only political party you would hear the screams of protest from around the world not just here in New Zealand, yet we still put up with a political party which is race based; “Te Pati Maori”. This is nothing more than racism cloaked as some sort of obligatory right for Maori. The Maori Party is only in Parliament because they have guaranteed Maori seats, but in today’s times this is an…

A vegetarian moussaka rich with chunks of delicious butternut pumpkin. Ingredients For the lentils - 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil - 1 large onion, finely chopped - 1 celery stick, diced - 2 garlic cloves, crushed - 250g puy lentils - 2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes - 1 bay leaf - ½ tsp dried oregano - 5cm piece of cinnamon For the other vegetables - 700g pumpkin or squash, peeled and deseeded (prepared weight) - Extra-virgin olive oil,…

Dr. Judy Wood earned a Ph.D. Degree from Virginia Tech and is a former professor of mechanical engineering. She has research expertise in experimental stress analysis, structural mechanics, deformation analysis, materials characterization and materials engineering science. Her research has involved testing materials, including complex-material systems, in the area of photomechanics, or the use of optical and image-analysis methods to determine…

Higher education across the world is facing a panoply of challenges that threaten to undermine or drastically alter its future. In the United States, universities are grappling with huge cuts to federal funding and pressure from the government to change their teaching and research agendas. In the United Kingdom, financial pressures are pushing some institutions to the brink of bankruptcy. Universities elsewhere, including in Germany and the…

A one-time gene therapy can markedly slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, potentially paving the way for the first ever treatment to alter the course of this rare, inherited brain disorder. In a small trial of 29 people who were in the early stages of Huntington’s-related decline, participants who received a high dose of the therapy directly into their brains saw the disease slow by 75% over three years, compared with those in a…

This three-ingredient recipe is sweet and silky – and quick and easy to make Based on a classic Turkish recipe, this pudding is sweet and silky, almost like a fig custard. The magic is that it only contains three ingredients: fibre-dense dried figs, milk and yogurt. You can add warm, earthy spices like cinnamon if you wish, but I like the natural flavour of the figs to come through. Ingredients - 200g soft dried figs - 250ml whole milk…