John Lewis

Sitting on the toilet and hearing a thud on the wall next to their head was becoming ‘‘a little disconcerting’’ for women in the changing rooms at the University of Otago’s Clubs and Societies Centre.

An Antarctic sediment core, providing an environmental record stretching back about 17 million years, may hold answers to how long we have before coastal areas become inundated by rising sea levels.

The thwack of a golf ball being hit, followed by a salvo of obscenities and flying clubs, is music to Bill Nichol’s ears.

If Luis Dazazarta was ever to retire from his job as a human cannonball, the Weber Brothers Circus may struggle to find another man of his calibre.