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    The modern lives of wives

    The modern lives of wives

    The choices facing married women in 2025 don’t change the contradiction at the heart of a marriage, writes Eva Wiseman.

    Uncovering a twisted path

    Jason Isaacs, left, and Gillian Anderson, right, with the Winns, the couple they play in The Salt...

    Uncovering a twisted path

    The couple behind the bestseller The Salt Path left a trail of debt and deceit, writes Chloe Hadjimatheou.

    Music sheets speak volumes

    The Silvery Spray, by Charles H. Russell (1876),  Dunedin, Begg & Co, and  The Otago Daily...

    Music sheets speak volumes

    The lives of many early colonists were bound up in their music collections, Amanda Mills writes.

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    On thin ice: Science at the end of the world

    Antarctic oceanographer Dr Natalie Robinson and her team take samples on the sea ice. Photo:...

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    On thin ice: Science at the end of the world

    A new documentary following climate scientists to Antarctica, explains the physics of our predicament, Tom McKinlay writes.

    Archaeological nirvana found in chance stop

    During our visit to Greece, we found an archaeological nirvana, deep gullies from which...

    Archaeological nirvana found in chance stop

    We are staying in our Greek whānau’s villa on the shore of the Aegean.

    A tale of two planets in the evening glow

    Image: Ian Griffin

    A tale of two planets in the evening glow

    There’s something quietly marvellous about stepping outside just after sunset in midwinter.

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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

    Photo: Clare Fraser

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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.
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