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All that glisters is not always Gold

Autumn sunset at the Gold Coast. Photo: Getty Images

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All that glisters is not always Gold

After you’ve seen a hundred rainbows you start to think maybe you’ve found your pot of gold.

Prince of prints

A printmaking movement in the early part of last century was about moving the medium forward, Lauren Gutsell writes.

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Raising AI

Your fears about artificial intelligence (AI) might be well-founded, Assoc Prof David Rozado says.

Veils across the light

The move to Middlemarch has been great for skywatching, writes Ian Griffin.

DNA of Roman legion will fascinate

The Simmering death pit, revealing a massacre 2000 years ago. Photo: A. Slonek/Novetus

DNA of Roman legion will fascinate

In the summer of 1959, I found myself excavating at the Roman city of Verulamium, southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England.

Antarctica’s sole native insect

Belgica antarctica, Antarctica’s only endemic insect and a harmless true fly; female left, male...

Antarctica’s sole native insect

Antarctica’s climate is so extreme, a small black wingless true fly is its only native insect.

Special meadows need protection

Some of the diversity of shapes and sizes of bryozoans/hermit crab associations.

Special meadows need protection

A marine reserve off Pukekura/Taiaroa Head would protect some remarkable collaborations.

Networked trees’ cosmic connection

The researchers also detected changes in the bioelectric responses of the stumps during the...

Networked trees’ cosmic connection

Trees are monitoring the heavens and sharing what they know, Monica Gagliano and Prudence Gibson write.

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A surgeon at the front

Waimate doctor Herbert Clifford Barclay thought he was heading to England to study. Instead he found himself, scalpel in hand, on World War 1’s Eastern Front, Kim Dungey writes.

Anzac Day has become a day of remembrance for all those who served and died in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. Many of us are fortunate to share whakapapa with these people, writes Karyn Paringatai.

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Building community the key

Nemsysis in her Waihola gaming room, from where she streams to a growing following. Photo: Gregor...

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Building community the key

To the untrained eye, she’s just playing games.

The killing of kindness

US vice-president J.D. Vance and second lady Usha Vance pray at the Good Friday Passion of the...

The killing of kindness

President Donald Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion.

Finding our first settlers

A couple of kiore (Polynesian/Pacific rats) feasting. Photo: supplied

Finding our first settlers

On one of my cruises as a guest speaker, my wife and I found ourselves on a bus heading for the Kemp House at the Kerikeri Mission station in the Bay of Islands.

Private audience with the cosmos something of a gift

At nearly 60, the body is no longer the reliable companion it once was.

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Farming at the world’s edge

The Shacklock coal range, all that remains of the farmers’ homestead, sits above Perseverance...

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Farming at the world’s edge

ODT illustrations editor Stephen Jaquiery recently travelled to the subantarctic islands aboard the Navy ship Canterbury as part of a multi-agency conservation effort. On Campbell Island he searched for and found a link to a bygone era.