Acting up over AI

Creativity is at the sharp end of the AI revolution. But other professions are sure to follow.

Don't worry, be happy

For all the misery Covid has caused, it provides an interesting of the moot case study \"ignorance is bliss\".

Eat now

AL BROWN's hearty dishes capture the fun and flavours of the Kiwi bach.

High cost of convenience

Checking the substance of processed food.

Getting down to it

Postnatal depression in new mothers is well known, but it can also be an issue for new fathers, particularly those under 30.

The muesli ticket to ride

Cereal king, foe of wilding pines and ex-Auckland mayor Dick Hubbard and wife Diana have motorbiked the equivalent of six times around the world.

Away with Words’

Advertising campaigns rarely swing elections, but did a psychologist's directive to bin a \"broken promises\" ad change the outcome of our 1993 cliffhanger?

Bottling the sun

A New Zealand startup has joined the quest to make nuclear fusion a viable alternative to burning fossil fuels.

FACING THE MUSIC

With one music school already closed and our most prestigious one facing cutbacks,tertiary music education is weathering a perfect storm of post-pandemic deficits, polytech restructuring and a swing away from the arts.

A life in stories

Film-maker Holly Morris makes a living out of telling powerful stories. Her latest, Exposure, follows 11 ordinary women to the North Pole, and has brought her to NZ.

Raining Cheshire Cats

On top of the PM’s other party management crises, he has to fix the fruit and veges GST policy leak revealed by a gleeful Nicola Willis.

Too much of a good thing

It could be the fridge magnets that get you in the end, or perhaps the aloe vera. Throw in pickled vegetables, bracken ferns or Wi-Fi and you're simply dicing with oblivion.

All fired up

'Let's do this!\" cheered the Newtown barista in response to the news that I would like a long black and a cheddar scone.

Summer of our discontent

If you've never witnessed the feverish joys of cognitive dissonance before, then feel free to watch reruns of interviews with the British holidaymakers whose vacations were cut short by wildfires in Greece last month.

I'm a deceiver

How a Russian-designed parlour game for geeks became a show starring Paul Henry and his big hat.

Tenor of the times

Sax supremos John Coltrane & Eric Dolphy at their joint peak.

Onto young Nick's head

Nadia Reid and Aldous Harding are among those playing tribute to a much lamented English folkie.

Song of love

The maker of Past Lives talks about how her feature debut became the year's most acclaimed film.

From boom to bloom

After years of playing a starship trooper in a sci-fi show, Frankie Adams has found time to stop and smell the roses.

Dramatic impulses

The revelation of a long-ago affair ignites an exploration of family truths.

Home truths

In his striking debut, expat Colin Walsh takes stock of modern Irish identity.

A bigger picture

Through stories that jump between characters, points of view and decades, Carl Nixon builds a dark family drama from the outside in.

Down and out

Former Cabinet minister Kiri Allan's fall from grace may well reflect the higher rates of mental ill health among MPs compared with the general populace.

Adding insult to injury

The number of known hay fever triggers is already long and it seems some foods can produce similar symptoms.

Play to gain

Devices and modern lifestyle pressures threaten the vital role of play in child development.

Portraits of another world

Colourised historical images bring the past to life, highlighting small details and huge differences in New Zealand society.

Your biases are showing

Mainstream media is in the gun. But it's actually your fault. Here, then, is a simple guide to how media cover the news.

Those left behind

New Zealand women are more likely to die from ovarian cancer than those in comparable countries, which diagnose the disease earlier and offer free access to more drugs.

Against the flow

University funding woes threaten not just the security of outspoken researchers, but the specialised courses they teach.

Science challenged

\"If you're not teaching a subject, or not teaching a full programme in it, you're not growing future researchers.\"