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When mozzies sniffed blood

Old enemies head to head: a mosquito and the skull of Homo erectus from Yunxian. PHOTOS: GETTY...

When mozzies sniffed blood

Last month, a new genetic study of mosquitoes in Southeast Asia led by Catherine Walton, of the University of Manchester, came to a remarkable conclusion. It found that about 1.8million years ago,...

Hype here second time around

The path of the total solar eclipse over Dunedin calculations tell us it happened on December 27,...

Hype here second time around

Dunedin is preparing itself for a magnificent celestial event. Committees are forming. Plans are being drawn up. Accommodation, one suspects, will soon be priced as if the Sun itself were staying...

Warning signals loud and clear

Warning signals loud and clear

The climate stripes (shown here for Dunedin) are a compelling way to look at how temperature has changed over the past 100 years or so. They show how average annual temperature has changed, with...

Decisions made in distant rooms

Decisions made in distant rooms

Conversations about war, conflict, and global instability are no longer distant.

An intimate point of view

Image One, from the Illustration of Government Series (1995), by Di ffrench. Collection of the...

An intimate point of view

A Di ffrench work in the Forrester collection tells a tale of evolution, Ella McLean writes.

Pushing back against constant comfort

Feel like you just can’t win? The world is a dumpster fire. Your flights got cancelled and the refund won’t cover new ones; petrol prices are scuppering your long-distance relationship. Some days...

Past winners’ wool creations on display

Alexandra designer, and winner of five awards, Daphne Randle handknitted garments and hats using...

Past winners’ wool creations on display

Close up views and the chance to own an entry from WoolOn Creative Fashion Event shows will be possible as work by three past winners go on display this month.

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Harnessing the feel-good factor

Nel Vincencio, of Mind Your Temper, works on creating his trademark colourful dairy-free bon bons...

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Harnessing the feel-good factor

On the eve of Easter, award-winning bon bon maker Nel Vincencio returned to Dunedin to show how he makes his dairy-free chocolates.

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A shelter and a sanctuary

Dark Colorsteel blends with timber and concrete in this sculptural Orokonui house by Gary Todd...

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A shelter and a sanctuary

The owners of this Orokonui house feel like they are living within a forest canopy. Kim Dungey has the details.

The ABCs of getting Zs

Sleep makes our waking lives possible, but for many that formula is anything but straightforward, Paul Gorman writes.

Cultural legacy permeates life

Cultural legacy permeates life

Australian travel writer Sandip Hor dives into Singapore’s harmonious cultural tapestry.

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Feasting with your eyes

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Feasting with your eyes

After Christmas, Easter is Annabel and Rose Langbein's favourite food holiday.

A bite-sized hit

A madeleine is a small French pastry, instantly recognisable by its delicate shell shape, its golden edges and soft buttery inside.

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Home-made tomato passata

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Home-made tomato passata

There’s something deeply satisfying about lining up jars of your own passata, simple, honest and ready to carry you through the cooler months.

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Savouring in preparation for grape-picking season

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Savouring in preparation for grape-picking season

I hope to get in a couple of tastings of Central Pinot Noir in the next few weeks as a sort of precursor to heading up to Bannockburn for harvest myself for a few days.

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The view from up there

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The view from up there

Saddle Hill normally just sits there, taunting us, playing hard to get. It seems to find it more comfortable to be pined after and unattainable, than to deign to the indignity of openness.

Fountain once part of South Seas exhibition

The Woolf Harris Fountain can be found at the Dunedin Botanic Garden. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Fountain once part of South Seas exhibition

The 1925-1926 New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition was a major event for Dunedin and the Dunedin Botanic Garden.

Value the darkness before it goes

Satellite stitch their lines across a gentle aurora above Middlemarch. PHOTO: IAN GRIFFIN

Value the darkness before it goes

A confession: I am not, by nature, a political animal. I prefer my debates to be settled by photons rather than policy.

Chaste fish doing fine

Amazon molly, all clones of each other. PHOTO: DAVID BIERBACH

Chaste fish doing fine

Ground-breaking research was recently published on the longevity and genetic integrity of the Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa), a clonal, parthenogenetic fish that defies the expectations of...

Ancient warning of climate calamity

Lidar has stripped away the forest to reveal Angkor as it was. In the centre is the city visited...

Ancient warning of climate calamity

I always read what Gwynne Dyer has to say. Recently, it was a sobering account of how the Trump regime has decimated the American National Centre for Atmospheric Research.

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