Interview: Richard Bradford
The author of a biography of Martin Amis found it was a book he didn't want to write. [more]
Changing our approach to child abuse
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett is calling for submissions on tackling our sorry rate of child neglect. [more]
Gareth Morgan: The challenge of Antarctica
This month, Gareth Morgan leads a 30-day voyage to the Subantarctic Islands to study humankind's impact on Antarctica. [more]
David Shearer interview
The new Labour leader says his party is ready for a change, but does that include confronting the union muscle within the party? [more]
Where is the digital revolution taking us?
The internet is creating new and exciting ways of doing things while changing many things we hold dear. [more]
Kauri under attack
Writer Germaine Greer argues that unpopular measures will need to be taken to save kauri from the deadly pathogen PTA. [more]
Word forestry in trouble
The world’s forestry cover is being stripped at an alarming rate – destroying a vital defence against global warming. [more]
Conflict without end in Burundi
For some Burundians, the consequences of their country’s ethnic conflict just don’t stop. By Benno Muchler, Niklas Schenck and Pierre-Christian... [more]
Flutings inside Rouffignac cave shed new light
Millennia-old lines on the walls of a French cave provide the first evidence that women, too, left their mark. [more]
The freeing of the West Memphis Three
Hamish McKenzie outlines Sir Peter Jackson's campaign for the release of three convicted American child killers. [more]
Recreating natural biodiversity in Waikato
On a farm near Tirau, the Scott family is replanting natives around a lake of ecological significance. [more]
Paul Yates: I was a mocap performer
Paul Yates went from being an extra on Avatar to a new adventure in faceless behind-the-scenes acting for one of the biggest movie directors in Hollywood. [more]
Dame Anne Salmond interview
Dame Anne Salmond, historian, anthropologist and author, walks in two worlds, and through her books has tried to bring greater understanding of the Maori experience and how it shapes us as New Zealanders. [more]
Fracking in New Zealand
Concern is mounting about the environmental dangers of fracking – fracturing subterranean rock to get to the oil and gas. [more]
100% Chemical Free * by Joanna Wojnar
‘How to create a safe and chemical-free home” advises the Queenstown Lakes District Council.1 Natural Pools NZ, in turn, offers “chemical-free swimming”,2 and a “chemical-free cosmetic” is touted on our evening news.3 These are some of the many examples of what Chemical and Engineering News has dubbed the age of... [more]
Radium: A Love Story by Dr Bridget L Stocker
This article features the winners of the 2011 Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing. The theme of this year’s competition, held in association with the Listener and Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters, was “Chemistry and Our World”. Judge Jo Randerson says she found... [more]
Jesse Bering interview
Humans’ instinct for belief in a higher being can be trouble, says research psychologist Jesse Bering. [more]
Phot essay: shear power
Listener photographer David White spent two days with a shearing gang in a hot Waikato woolshed. [more]
The sibling effect
| Tags: Feature, Psychology
Your brothers and sisters can have a powerful effect on your adult behaviour. [more]
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