• tara

    The big chill

    Redmer Yska meets polar adventurer and scientist Grant Redvers.

  • literacy

    What they did last summer

    While most of us were on holiday, a team of Massey University education researchers ran an ambitious project aimed at halting the ‘summer slide’ usually suffered by struggling readers. Promising early results suggest they’ve made an important breakthrough. Bevan Rapson writes.

  • katherine_holt

    The Classifynder – Revolutionising Pollen Counting

    A digital microscope imaging, identification and pollen counting system going under the name of the Classifynder is going to spare scientists having to tally pollen grains by hand. Katherine Holt, who spent four years of her life investigating past patterns of vegetation on the Chatham Island, won’t miss this particular chore.

  • heather_kavan

    Twelve Secrets of Cult Leaders

    Tired of spending too much time in front of the television? Fancy developing your own cult? Heather Kavan, who has published a number of research papers about religions and cults, has some useful tips. She talks to Redmer Yska.

  • andrew_cameron

    Taking care

    It’s fair to say nurse Andrew Cameron relishes a challenge, whether it’s confounding the gender stereotypes of his profession or working with victims of war and addiction. The Florence Nightingale Medal winner talks to Andrea O’Neil.

  • kerry

    Chain reaction

    A pair of Longburn freezing workers’ singlets at the Te Manawa museum helped reawaken historian Kerry Taylor’s interest in labour history. He now plans to tell the story of the radical meatworks that employed Manawatu people for nearly a century. Redmer Yska reports.

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    Oddly familiar

    Photographs from Torbay tī Kōuka: A New Zealand Tree in the English Riviera by Wayne Barrar

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Apr
05

What they did last summer

literacy

While most of us were on holiday, a team of Massey University education researchers ran an ambitious project aimed at halting the ‘summer slide’ usually suffered by struggling readers. Promising early results suggest they’ve made an important breakthrough. Bevan Rapson writes.

Apr
04

Twelve Secrets of Cult Leaders

heather_kavan

Tired of spending too much time in front of the television? Fancy developing your own cult? Heather Kavan, who has published a number of research papers about religions and cults, has some useful tips. She talks to Redmer Yska.

Apr
04

Taking care

andrew_cameron

It’s fair to say nurse Andrew Cameron relishes a challenge, whether it’s confounding the gender stereotypes of his profession or working with victims of war and addiction. The Florence Nightingale Medal winner talks to Andrea O’Neil.

Apr
04

Chain reaction

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A pair of Longburn freezing workers’ singlets at the Te Manawa museum helped reawaken historian Kerry Taylor’s interest in labour history. He now plans to tell the story of the radical meatworks that employed Manawatu people for nearly a century. Redmer Yska reports.

May
20

The big chill

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Redmer Yska meets polar adventurer and scientist Grant Redvers.

Apr
05

In praise of reading

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Some of you may blame Bilbo Baggins. Some of you will inculpate The Famous Five. Or perhaps, if you are of a more recent generation, it will have been Harry Potter or some teen vampire. The culprits are varied. Myself, I blame the likes of Dr Dolittle, Tintin and Asterix. In the warm haven that was the Palmerston North library, close by my family home, they and their kind got me hooked on reading. Steve Maharey writes.

Apr
05

Doing the math

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The North Island bush robin has lessons to teach us about how to go about reintroducing species. Using the robin as his subject, Professor Doug Armstrong has been crafting mathematical models that can be applied to any species. He talks to Malcolm Wood.

Apr
05

Remembering Sir Paul Callaghan

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New Zealand and the Massey community have lost a remarkable individual.

Apr
05

The Classifynder – Revolutionising Pollen Counting

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A digital microscope imaging, identification and pollen counting system going under the name of the Classifynder is going to spare scientists having to tally pollen grains by hand. Katherine Holt, who spent four years of her life investigating past patterns of vegetation on the Chatham Island, won’t miss this particular chore.

Apr
05

Fruit and veg

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The plants have a strange allure. Passers-by cannot resist the urge to browse, inspect, touch and sample. In Civic Square, in the heart of New Zealand’s capital, tomato plants and nasturtiums are proving a hit. Researcher Amanda Yates is pleased.

Apr
04

Immersive learning

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Jennifer Little meets Professor Marti Anderson, who is assessing what is happening to our marine ecosystems.