Tech review
Tech review
Is it a novelty gadget or a serious drone?
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Adding value to what we grow
Adding value to what we grow
Chutney could provide a clue to getting out of the pickle we're in.
Notes from a literary life
Notes from a literary life
Papers left by Janet Frame illustrate a life of literature and adventure, write Anna Blackman and Kirstie Ross.
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Lost jobs don't pay
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Lost jobs don't pay
A physiotherapist with 18 years' experience is watching his house deposit draining away, spent on household bills because he cannot get a decent job.
The spectacle of stellar death
The spectacle of stellar death
A few weeks back, while testing a new colour camera at the University of Canterbury’s Mt John Observatory, I photographed a genuinely remarkable object.
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Focus on love, health and happiness
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Focus on love, health and happiness
Lisa Scott hopes for a banquet of love, health and happiness this Christmas.
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Ahead of his time
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Ahead of his time
Enthusiastic citizen scientists with a great passion for their subject sometimes make discoveries which leave academics in the dust.
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Collating the city’s war dead
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Collating the city’s war dead
Recording Dunedin’s losses in war is a work in progress, Sean Brosnahan writes.
Navigating school journey never easy
Navigating school journey never easy
My mātaamua, my girl finished school this week forever and what a journey it has been! She steps in to her next journey with trepidation and nerves, but I am pretty sure she will be OK. However, let me tell you, it hasn’t been easy.
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Planets in the western sky
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Planets in the western sky
In ancient mythology, the constellations of Scorpio and Orion are depicted as eternal opposites in the sky, locked in a perpetual celestial chase.
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Take on a ‘new to you’ bike
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Take on a ‘new to you’ bike
Your next new bike need not be new at all, reckons Sara Walton.
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Stripping away the climate denial
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Stripping away the climate denial
After running for two years in The Weekend Mix, Bruce Mahalski’s climate crisis cartoon strip is now a book. He tells Tom McKinlay about letting the animals have their say.
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Sydney calls
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Sydney calls
It’s possible to take Sydney in your stride, Clare Fraser finds.
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Something to believe in
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Something to believe in
Magic was meant to have gone the way of superstition. Cosentino tells Tom McKinlay why our rational modern minds continue to believe.
Odd shape points to true purpose
Odd shape points to true purpose
When is a trough actually a waka? It’s a puzzle Te Atarau Cassidy and Gerard O’Regan have been working on at Tūhura Otago Museum.
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Lakeside excavations reveal horse hunters
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Lakeside excavations reveal horse hunters
In the rise of humans, it is often the most basic changes that are somehow overlooked.
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Leading NZ's energy transformation
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Leading NZ's energy transformation
CLASS ACT: Engineering studies and a rowing dream took Jack O’Leary to Cambridge. Now he’s working on creating a sustainable energy future for NZ, Kim Dungey writes.
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About belief
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About belief
CLASS ACT: Anna Grimaldi felt like an imposter after winning gold at her first Paralympics but she’s been on a journey to self-belief, Kim Dungey writes.
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Class Act: Lessons outside the classroom
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Class Act: Lessons outside the classroom
As the ODT Class Act awards celebrate 25 years, we check in with the class of 2014 and find many have concerns about the economy and the cost of living. Kim Dungey reports.
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Class Act of 2014 - Where are they now?
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Class Act of 2014 - Where are they now?
The ODT checks in with the class of 2014 to see what they are doing 10 years on.
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Kicking up a fuss over dance craze
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From military tool to the masses
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Childhood revisited
