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Challenges of communicating

To be human is to communicate - either verbally, with body language, using the written word or pictures, with music or with touch, writes Jan Aitken.

Supportive strategy best

Bedwetting is one of those issues on which most parents seem to have an opinion, but no easy answers.

The politics of scepticism

Harvard Professor Naomi Oreskes talks science and scepticism with Zoe Corbyn and explains why climate deniers have run out of excuses.

Triple treat for stargazers

If the sky is clear tonight, it'll be well worth heading out just after sunset to enjoy the splendid sight of a 99%-illuminated moon clearing the northeastern horizon, Ian Griffin writes.

Hare’s to a natural celebration

Hare’s to a natural celebration

Needle-felting artist Irene Smith, of Wanaka, is proving natural fibres can be used for more than just clothing.

Sticky Filth is back tonight for a gig at The Cook with local legends Conniption. It's long overdue, its last South Island gig was more than 20 years ago. Bassist and vocalist Craig Radford reckons...

Guiding lights

Sculpture in C.S. Lewis Square, Belfast.

Guiding lights

A good guide makes the sights come alive, writes Julie Orr-Wilson.

Hodgkins' travel an inspiration

Yudi Y Moro, c. 1936, by Frances Hodgkins. Photo: Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Purchased 1970 with...

Hodgkins' travel an inspiration

Last month, the Dunedin Public Art Gallery opened "Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys", an exhibition curated by Mary Kisler and toured by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki.

Kiwiana kitsch of yesteryear

The lounge sports period carpet and curtains, and opens to a classic Kiwi view.

Kiwiana kitsch of yesteryear

Philanthropist Christine Fernyhough’s new book celebrates a golden era in our history, the 1950s and 60s.

Climate threat understated

Climate threat understated

Scientists' have pulled their punches on climate change, lest they provide excuses for inaction.

Takahe on the move

Tumanako and partner Bendigo on the supplementary feeder at Burwood. Photo: Eeva-Katri Kumpula

Takahe on the move

Orokonui volunteer Eeva-Katri Kumpula has recently been volunteering at the Burwood Takahe Centre, and has this update on the Orokonui takahe offspring who have gone on to help in the recovery programme.

5 questions with: Susie Staley

Dunedin lawyer Susie Staley, MNZM, is chairwoman of the national board of Save the Children.

Set consistent rules on biting

Set consistent rules on biting

Even though it might be a phase, biting isn't something that a child can be left to grow out of, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

Where words matter

A tree planted for Wislawa Szymborska in Krakow. Photo: Getty Images

Where words matter

This is my last column from Krakow. Hello. I think it's Saturday. And November. Is it? I missed a day somewhere on the dateline, I'm very completely massively liminally overadverbially...

A life behind the lens

Newspaper photographers are in a privileged position, says Stephen Jaquiery, whose career is the focus of a new book. Kim Dungey talks to the award-winning photographer and people in his most memorable assignments.

Heavens above

The Horsehead Nebula. Photo: Fraser Gunn

Heavens above

We need to do more to protect our dark sky and reconnect with our place in the universe, writer and stargazing enthusiast Naomi Arnold tells Bruce Munro.