Traces of her journey
Traces of her journey
On a summer’s day 3395 years ago, a young woman in Denmark died and was interred under a tumulus, in a coffin hewed from a massive oak, wrapped in a blanket and an ox hide.
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No easy task to rustle photons from a glowing sky
No easy task to rustle photons from a glowing sky
After a week of cloud-choked nights putting paid to any chance of astronomy, the forecast finally promised clear skies last Sunday.
We must turn the page, together
We must turn the page, together
We’re in 2025, and it’s a brand new year, and yet it all feels rather surreal — as if the pages of a dystopian novel (similar to those I like to read) have suddenly become our reality.
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Mini adventure on the doorstep
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Mini adventure on the doorstep
One of the benefits of spending summer in Dunedin’s climate is having the place to yourself.
Honouring our commitments
Honouring our commitments
It is remembering season for some of the colonies.
The man behind the collection
The man behind the collection
What we leave behind provides pathways for connection, writes Chloe Searle.
Scanning the horizons of our future
Scanning the horizons of our future
A new studies shows where the pathways may lie to our future.
Alone with our phones
Alone with our phones
There’s a word for people who prefer phones to meeting friends.
Juggling life and the farm
Juggling life and the farm
The worldwide circus sensation, Cirque Alfonse, is finally on its way to NZ. Bruce Munro talks to co-founder Antoine Carabinier-Lepin.
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For plants and people: Alan Matchett's botanic calling
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For plants and people: Alan Matchett's botanic calling
Alan Matchett has been keeper of something close to a sacred trust these past several decades.
Also at the Dunedin Arts Festival 2025
Also at the Dunedin Arts Festival 2025
March 26 to April 6
Whistling up the tune to which we still dance
Whistling up the tune to which we still dance
Towards the end of last year, the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra put on an evening of music from ABBA.
Moon meets Matariki
Moon meets Matariki
The moon reaches its first quarter on Wednesday at 9.02pm.
Life defies even hell on Earth
Life defies even hell on Earth
New research into the single-celled organism Luca is providing clues about what the early planet looked like - and that we may not be alone in the universe.
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When the circus came to town
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When the circus came to town
What do bears, tigers and mountainous southwest France have to do with the sheep, cows and windswept slopes of Dunedin’s Mount Cargill?
A thinning of the bald
A thinning of the bald
As hair-loss treatments improve, one wonders if we’ll start to get nostalgic for a good comb-over, writes Eva Wiseman.
Trip often outshines the destination
Trip often outshines the destination
With his 59th birthday looming large, and after weeks of unrelenting clouds, Ian Griffin was itching for an astronomical challenge.
Blazing into the unknown
Blazing into the unknown
Data for 2024 shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather, Damian Carrington writes.
Voyage was French for failure
Voyage was French for failure
A small French cruise ship named La Perouse has been a regular visitor to Dunedin, but I wonder how many know why it is so named.
No skirting the issues
No skirting the issues
A little remembered campus standoff, now the focus of a documentary, tells us much about ourselves, director Katie Wolfe tells Tom McKinlay.
