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DIY funerals - a big undertaking

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DIY funerals - a big undertaking

Funeral debt is an unwelcome, extra burden at a time of grief for a significant number of people. Should the solution lie with funeral directors, the govt or mourning families?

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In Arrowtown’s isolation you’re seldom alone

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In Arrowtown’s isolation you’re seldom alone

"Getting away from it all" suggests a rest from people.

All Black Tamaiti Williams on anxiety and fatherhood

Tamaiti Williams with partner Alice Weir. Photo: Instagram / Tamaiti Williams

All Black Tamaiti Williams on anxiety and fatherhood

All Blacks prop Tamaiti Williams is opening up about his anxiety after his partner’s difficult pregnancy and the premature birth of his now 15-month-old daughter.

Mana means everything

Mana means everything

I was talking to one of my work colleagues about "mana" and what it means to me and my whānau and she suggested I write about it in an article, so here we go.

Despite cloud cover the sun shines through

The author’s "solar observatory" in Middlemarch — solar panels can be monitored by an app...

Despite cloud cover the sun still shines through

What does an astronomer do when the skies are cloudy, and the moon is full? Ian Griffin has found a new way to watch the sky - and it's not what you might expect.

Salt mine has long history

A staircase built 3133 years ago, and the shoe of one of the miners who would have climbed it. ...

Salt mine has long history

I have always wanted to visit Hallstatt, a prehistoric site that his given its name to the early Iron Age in Europe.

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Our timeless companion: Michelle Thaller's starry-eyed gaze

Michelle Thaller says her love of astronomy began before she can even remember, about the age of...

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Our timeless companion: Michelle Thaller's starry-eyed gaze

Astrophysicist Dr Michelle Thaller has spent a lifetime with her head in the stars, she tells Paul Gorman.

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Becoming more flexible on questions of spirituality

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Becoming more flexible on questions of spirituality

I’m not religious.

Halves make a whole

Gretchen Albrecht (b.1943), Cardinal, 1981, acrylic on canvas. Bought in 1981 with funds from the...

Halves make a whole

A simple semicircle encompasses some big ideas, Anya Samarasinghe writes.

The journey of our branching trees

A silver beech/tahina (Lophozonia menziesii) growing in Dunedin Botanic Garden. Photo: Peter...

The journey of our branching trees

Our trees have some intriguing family histories.

Escaping into romantasy

Lauren Roberts celebrates the publication of Fearless with Instagram and TikTok influencers....

Escaping into romantasy

The huge popularity of romantasy fiction’s handsome princes and horny dragons tells us something about what women want, writes Sophie Heawood.

A message in a bottle

Messier 83, 15 million light-years away. Photo: Ian Griffin

A message in a bottle

Out in the dark, on a frost-bitten Saturday in Middlemarch, I turned my telescope towards Messier 83.

The leadership clearing the air

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.

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