Game on: 20 years of gaming
Game on: 20 years of gaming
It was 20 years ago today ... well, sort of. Hayden Meikle first had a game review published in the Otago Daily Times on October 19, 1999. Twenty years later, he remains a player.
Life & Style
What Nadia did next
What Nadia did next
Fraser Thompson talks to Nadia Reid about her third album, touring overseas and coming home to Port Chalmers.
An artist’s brush with Cubism
An artist’s brush with Cubism
Dame Louise Henderson was born in Paris at the beginning of La Belle Epoch (The Golden Age) at the turn of the 20th-century.
Focusing on the present
Focusing on the present
Happiness can be a bit elusive come Christmas time, writes Jan Aitken.
A diet for the planet
A diet for the planet
RNZ's Noelle McCarthy talks to explorer and film-maker James Cameron about the challenges and opportunities of climate change, and the role of a plant-based diet. AUDIO
Christmas Eve pre-dawn vista
Christmas Eve pre-dawn vista
At 5.19pm on Sunday, December 22, the sun reaches the southernmost point in its apparent annual journey around the sky.
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Help change the world - Take part in this survey
Resilient needs your help identifying how we shift to a more sustainable footing.
Moonrise splendour awaits
Moonrise splendour awaits
If you've ever wanted to capture a picture of the nearly full moon rising, Thursday's the day, writes Ian Griffin.
Ready or not
Ready or not
Spuds are being dug up, supermarkets are playing carols 17 hours a day, church kids are wearing tea towels, police and budget advisers are gearing up - it must be the festive season.
Post haste to the goldfields
Post haste to the goldfields
Red Coat's goldfields map was drawn up by one of Otago's greatest eccentrics, John (Jock) Graham, and remains one of the more fascinating relics of our gold-rush history, writes Jim Sullivan.
Climate moves up the agenda
Climate moves up the agenda
We need to be tackling the climate crisis, new IMF boss Kristalina Georgieva tells Larry Elliott.
Toddlerhood: a time of change and challenge
Toddlerhood: a time of change and challenge
Ian Munro offers some advice on how you and your child can cope with toddlerhood.
Liz Breslin: Nothing you can buy
Nothing you can buy
Nothing you can buy will ever make you more whole. It’s always a good time of year to remember that gem of truth from Kate Tempest’s Hold Your Own, writes Liz Breslin.
A tale of two asteroids
A tale of two asteroids
In 1998, I was working at a science centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. To a space nut like me, witnessing launches from the Kennedy Space Center was a real thrill.
Life in the Nevis
Life in the Nevis
Life in the Nevis Valley was far from easy, writes Louise Joyce in this edited extract from Take me to the Nevis.
Giants of the Andes
Giants of the Andes
It’s the Tyrannosaurus rex of trees. Who hasn’t felt a primal twinge of terror as they’ve looked up at a large monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) with its ferocious dark green "teeth"? We feel...
In thrall to quantity
In thrall to quantity
Apps and wearable devices are touted as a way to transform health. But are we too obsessed by the quantified self? asks James Tapper.
Addressing flight’s baggage
Addressing flight’s baggage
Recently, people in Sweden have chosen to fly less and take the train more. They have coined a new word, "flygskam", for the shame associated with flying and its climate impact. When Swedes want to...
Leading by example
Leading by example
It was not good news this week for teenagers: more than 80% worldwide are insufficiently active for the good of their health and New Zealand teens are close to the worst.
Gateway to Otago’s history
Gateway to Otago’s history
Visitors to Toitu’s exhibition galleries now pass under the outstretched wings of Toroa, the centrepiece of an impressive carved gateway, or waharoa, recently unveiled at the museum.
