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Forget about shovels

20 April 2020

Opinion: As New Zealand prepares to come out of lockdown, let's use this important moment to reshape the way we are living, writes Anne Salmond.
How Covid-19 could be good for dating

17 April 2020

Opinion: Relationship educator Holly Dixon says while sex with someone outside your bubble is out-of-bounds, now might be a better time than ever to find a partner.
Settling of East Polynesia earlier and likely connected to prolonged drought

16 April 2020

Human forays into the eastern Pacific happened earlier than previously thought, and climate change may have been a factor, according to a recent study.
Lockdown reality for ‘other’ NZ

16 April 2020

Opinion: Scenes of privileged families locked down with designer kitchens and overflowing pantries obscures social suffering of the less well-off, writes Ian Hyslop.
Modern political differences linked to human evolution

15 April 2020

What determines our views on taxation, welfare, crime, healthcare, military spending and climate change?
5G conspiracy theories are sweeping the planet. Why?

15 April 2020

Opinion: There's no evidence linking 5G to the COVID-19 coronavirus, yet 5G conspiracy theories are sweeping the planet. This fear fits a historical pattern, explains Robert Bartholomew.
DNA offers clues to ancient Samoan settlement and unique ancestry

15 April 2020

Samoa experienced an exponential jump in its population around 1000 years ago and the ancestry of contemporary Samoans is relatively unique when compared to other Pacific island groups, a new study has found.
After the crisis: Cities are the future

9 April 2020

Opinion: There is anxiety about Covid-19 – but our water supply will flow, power will be on, sewers will work. Bill McKay makes a case for city living in a crisis.
Third of New Zealand high school students have tried vaping, despite most being non-smokers

7 April 2020

New research shows that more than a third of New Zealand high school students have tried vaping even though nearly two-thirds of those doing so have never smoked cigarettes.
Adventurous fun as educational pilot launched

7 April 2020

Whether they were swinging from a trapeze, abseiling from a high beam or assembling a raft, 80 students from Aorere College had an adventure-filled start last month to a programme that hopes to offer them more options for their future.
No conference? No problem

6 April 2020

A creative solution to the fact that academic conferences have had to be cancelled all over the world because of Covid-19, Cancelled Conference Conversations, a virtual symposium series, is looking for interested speakers.
How epidemics change us

2 April 2020

Opinion: Beyond direct impact on demography and genome, pandemics have brought dramatic change across history. Tatjana Buklijas considers the impact of Covid-19.

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