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Taking the plunge
Learning te reo Māori has opened profound new possibilities for story-telling, Witi Ihimaera Smiler tells Tom McKinlay. But it is a proficiency hard won.
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Sorting which came first
Sorting which came first
The world has saluted Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday.
Leading nature-based learning
Leading nature-based learning
The pace of learning at Orokonui only hots up as the cooler months arrive, Madison Kelly writes.
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Our window on the world
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Our window on the world
Because TVNZ camera operator Ross Wilson has seen it all, so have we, Paul Gorman writes.
The uncomfortable truth behind deepfakes
The uncomfortable truth behind deepfakes
AI-facilitated fakery can do real damage, but it also exposes the existing structures and attitudes that degrade women, writes Eva Wiseman.
Off the chain
Off the chain
It strikes me as quietly ridiculous, sitting in Middlemarch with a telescope barely bigger than a coffee mug, peering 60 million light-years into the dark.
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The glorious mess of Plan B
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The glorious mess of Plan B
The race was an up and back.
Layers on the land
Layers on the land
The layers of archaeological evidence at Moeraki lie together with the layered histories told and retold by mana whenua, Gerard O’Regan tells Tom McKinlay and Luke Chapman.
Guided by the stars
Guided by the stars
A moving image at Dunedin Public Art Gallery plots the course of a pilgrimage, Lauren Gutsell writes.
Cool cat saunters by
Cool cat saunters by
There is a small, untidy visitor in the evening sky this week, one that does not keep to schedules or respect expectations.
A stitch in time saves society
A stitch in time saves society
There are problems we can fix with a needle and thread, Ruth Blunt writes.
Wrapped up in a mystery
Wrapped up in a mystery
Last December, a remarkable discovery in Egypt jogged my memory on two counts.
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The daddy of all dilemmas
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The daddy of all dilemmas
What drives us to bring children into a troubled world, and who decides, Emma Neale asks in her new novel.
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Going underground to the ocean
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Going underground to the ocean
The track to a hidden beach is now as flash as its tunnel, Clare Fraser writes.
Lifted from a lovelier life
Lifted from a lovelier life
Denise Richards sharing the details of her facelift marks a shift in the culture, writes Eva Wiseman.
Living fossils beneath our waves
Living fossils beneath our waves
Ancient shelled creatures have survived and thrived in the waters of Aotearoa.
The violence is in our genes
The violence is in our genes
A tendency to aggression and antisocial behaviour is encoded in certain people’s DNA, argues Kathryn Paige Harden — and it could have profound implications for crime and punishment.
There but for a quirk of DNA go we
There but for a quirk of DNA go we
The discovery of DNA has had a massive impact on our understanding of human evolution.
Pragmatic word, poetic sight
Pragmatic word, poetic sight
I learnt a new word this week. It is not a poetic word, not one that rolls off the tongue or finds its way easily into a sentence. It sounds more like something you would scrape off a laboratory...
Coded cast of thousands
Coded cast of thousands
Hundreds of AI-generated shows are being launched daily, but here is proof of the value of the human touch, writes Miranda Sawyer.
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