Old friends on new adventures
Don’t dream it, be it, as Frank-N-Furter once sang. It’s a song that’s going round in my head this week, interspersed with the Top Gun Anthem, which we played on repeat on the boombox slipped in my...
Where did I come from?
Where did I come from?
There’s an old, somewhat corny joke that goes like this: youngster asks father, "Where did I come from?" Father, who has been dreading this moment, takes a deep breath and launches into a half-hour...
Matai precious survivors
Matai precious survivors
Lowland survivors might finally be getting a break.
Blue moon combines with penumbral eclipse
Blue moon combines with penumbral eclipse
November’s second full moon occurs at 10.30pm on Monday. Two full moons in the same calendar month is not something that happens very often. The last time in New Zealand was July 2015, and it will...
Girls doing everything
Girls doing everything
A new photographic exhibition celebrating women in Stem fields is aimed at a much broader audience and a much bigger goal than you might expect. Bruce Munro talks to 100 Women, 100 Words ... ...
Return of the wow factor
Return of the wow factor
Have you ever seen children delight in discovering something new, or marvelled in their wonder as they watch a bug on a leaf or look up at the stars twinkling in the night sky?
Great white shark 'sent chill up spine' during filming - Gayford
Great white shark 'sent chill up spine' during filming - Gayford
Watching a great white shark stalk a crew member off the coast of Stewart Island during filming for a documentary was among the most scary incidents marine film-maker Clarke Gayford witnessed.
Dressed to empress
Dressed to empress
Lisa Scott gets to grips with a bustle and enjoys all things Victorian.
Tracking the kaka
Tracking the kaka
Citizen scientists are looking up and looking out for kaka, writes Jeanne Hutchison.
Game on
Game on
After a seven-year gap since their last games console releases, both Sony and Microsoft have this month debuted their new hardware, the PlayStation5 and XBox Series X, respectively.
Focus on systems of power
Focus on systems of power
The most recent artwork to enter the collection of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery is I thought I heard you crying in the forest, by Ayesha Green (Ngati Kahungunu, Kai Tahu), and it is now on...
Hauling up the big girls’ pants
Hauling up the big girls’ pants
I am officially a middle-aged woman. When others aren’t around to witness it, I have started sporting a floppy hat, jeans that have not been fashionable in a decade, and gardening gloves, writes...
Death & doubt
Death & doubt
One hundred and forty years ago this week, Ah Lee was hanged in Dunedin Gaol for the murder of Mary Young. Rumours of his innocence have persisted. Naseby writer Hazel Harrison explores the facts.
Playtime, rest important
Playtime, rest important
Some years ago, I sat at a red light behind a bumper sticker that read, "If a woman’s place is in the home, why am I always in the car?" writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.
Fine example of engraving
Fine example of engraving
In March 1920, a group of artists, including Lucien Pissarro, Noel Rooke, Gwen Raverat and Eric Gill, founded the United Kingdom-based Society of Wood Engravers.
Trying a little kindness
Trying a little kindness
If you’re on the receiving end of an act of kindness it’s not hard to understand why you feel good, writes life coach Jan Aitken.
Signpost of summer
Signpost of summer
Happy cross-quarter day! Today marks the halfway point between spring equinox and summer solstice.
Stately tree waves the flag
Stately tree waves the flag
It’s surprising how few national flags feature the great trees of the world, writes Mark Clark.
Reducing workplace emissions
Reducing workplace emissions
With legislation aiming for zero net carbon emissions by 2050, the landscape of calculating and managing carbon emissions will change vastly, says Sara Walton.
Consequences and reflection
Consequences and reflection
Timeout is a popular way of letting youngsters know that they’ve transgressed by withdrawing them temporarily from what they’ve been doing and ending their current misbehaviour.
