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    MP Tariana Turia speaks at Arai Te Uru Whare Hauora in 2004. File photo: Peter McIntosh

    The leadership clearing the air

    A new documentary shows what leadership can look like.

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    Shining a light: Richard Blaikie's brilliant career

    Prof Richard Blaikie is retiring from the University of Otago. Photo: Peter McIntosh

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    Shining a light: Richard Blaikie's brilliant career

    Throughout his career, Prof Richard Blaikie has championed the light of science.

    Undoing ‘the Great Rewiring’

    Jonathan Haidt says smartphones and the algorithms that run on them are rewiring the brains of...

    Undoing ‘the Great Rewiring’

    Smartphones are turning our young people into the anxious generation, Jonathan Haidt tells Tom Faber.

    The universe doesn’t run on our clocks

    The sun rises over Papanui Inlet. Photo: Ian Griffin

    The universe doesn’t run on our clocks

    Some things in life just don’t line up the way you’d expect.

    Back from oblivion

    Back from oblivion

    Archaeology can be both deadly dull and, if you are fortunate, incredibly exciting.

    Relax, and think of your skin

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    Relax, and think of your skin

    Yes, a hot bath feels lovely, but there are things you need to watch, write Amanda Meyer and Monika Zimanyi.

    Another year in the life

    Paku and Quammen together in 2019. Photo: Giverny Forbes

    Another year in the life

    Orokonui’s takahē whānau is spreading its wings, Madison Kelly writes.

    Removing the grit

    Photo: Observer

    Removing the grit

    AI, Botox, weight-loss drugs ... are we in danger of losing the wrinkles that give life its grit? asks Eva Wiseman.

    Ingredients for a cooking classic

    Above: St Andrew’s Church, postcard by Muir and Moodie. Top: St Andrew’s Cookery Book, 12th...

    Ingredients for a cooking classic

    An early Dunedin recipe book told a story about the city’s inhabitants, Peter Read writes.

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    Never again

    A Palestinian man shows blood stains on his palm after carrying people hurt while seeking aid...

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    Never again

    Dunedin man Emir Hodzic survived a genocide.

    Waiting for Matariki to rise

    Photo: Ian Griffin

    Waiting for Matariki to rise

    There’s a bend in the shared pathway out on Otago Peninsula just before you round the corner to Broad Bay.

    Sooty fingerprints of sister species

    Ludovic Slimac looks on at the excavation of the Grotte de Mandrin. Photo: Gregoire Bernadi

    Sooty fingerprints of sister species

    In 1957, my brother Richard and I travelled on our 59cc NSU mopeds from our home in Wimbledon to central France to spend our summer digging in the cave of Arcy-sur-Cure.

    Power to the plastic-free people

    Attendees at a Wastebusters SipNSew event making reusable produce bags. Photo: Wastebusters

    Power to the plastic-free people

    It’s time to raise your own cup to Plastic Free July again.

    Stories from the heartwood

    Michelle Elvy.

    Stories from the heartwood

    A new collection of short writing doubles down on language, Tom McKinlay writes.

    Doffing his cap to history

    Photo: file

    Doffing his cap to history

    My oldest boy wanted to please his dad when he was young and one way to his dad’s heart was through rugby.

    Drug cheats: the new weight loss

    Photo: supplied

    Drug cheats: the new weight loss

    More and more men are choosing to use weight-loss drugs.

    The calm after the trauma

    Photo: Hilary Rowley

    The calm after the trauma

    There’s more to bush lawyer than the scars.

    Cave of Denis, bounty of archaeological discovery

    Michael Shunkov (front left) and Maxim Kozlikin (back right) — the main excavators at Denisova...

    Cave of Denis, bounty of archaeological discovery

    The first issue of the journal Nature was published on November 4, 1869, costing fourpence.

    Of auroras and candlelight

    Of auroras and candlelight

    King’s Birthday weekend saw the Griffin clan decamp to our new crib in Middlemarch.

    Unique find of a unique specimen

    Unique find of a unique specimen

    Feathered drumsticks provide a rare insight, writes Kane Fleury.
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