Sir Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes, KBE (13 January 1924 – 8 March 2006) was a pioneering heart surgeon from New Zealand. Barratt-Boyes went to Victoria University before study medicine at Otago’s Medical School, graduating in 1946. He continued his training as a surgeon, initially in New Zealand, and later at theContinue Reading

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-integrationist/201408/dealing-everyday-sadists-and-other-dark-personalities Most of us will encounter an “everyday sadist” – someone who actively seeks to cause us emotional pain. Given the potential for overlap among sadism, narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism, for the purposes of the below we will refer to anyone who purposefully causes emotional harm as an everyday sadist,Continue Reading

Richard John Seddon (22 June 1845 – 10 June 1906), sometimes known as King Dick, is to date the longest serving Prime Minister of New Zealand. He is regarded by some, including historian Keith Sinclair, as one of New Zealand‘s greatest political leaders. Seddon was born in Eccleston near StContinue Reading