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The Spinoff
Is your silly little walk feeling sillier by the day? Associate professor Melody Smith from the University of Auckland's School of Nursing has some ways to get active in lockdown without getting bored. Here we are again Aotearoa, navigating working from home, childcare, teaching, checking in with
Stuff
Unlike deluded optimism, active hope blends future goals and desires with pragmatism, realism and flexibility.
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Sweet Surrender: The end-of-the-alphabet generations looked at the Baby-Boomers and felt not pity, but a contemptuous, envy-driven rage. It ...
Stuff
It's boring. It's lonely. And sometimes you just need to yell it out.
Stuff
OPINION: Giving something the time it deserves but knowing when to let it go is smart in both puzzling and in life.
The Spinoff
Ten inmates at a high security South Auckland prison are being equipped with skills that court lucrative roles in tech companies all over the world. But do they actually have a chance at being employed once released? Michael Andrew went along to the class to find out. A man sits at a computer typ
Stuff
OPINION: How quickly does your fitness plummet when work, kids, lockdown or injury set you back?
Stuff
OPINION: Remembering my beloved Nan helps, while also raising the question, 'Who do you want to be?'
Newsroom
In the first of an occasional series of dispatches from the lockdown home front, former TV3 reporter Charlotte Shipman discovers what Lego can teach you about life
Newsroom
We know high performance sport heightens mental health and wellbeing pressure points but the causes of distress start well before those elite environments, Ashley Stanley writes.
Newsroom
The terms of togetherness created by the pandemic might be effective as a public health strategy, but require scrutiny once the dust settles, writes Annemarie Jutel.
www.bbc.com
As a new exhibition shows, doodles can be a powerful form of creative expression, writes Clare Thorp.
The Conversation
Same-sex sexual behaviour presents a paradox: it’s influenced by genes, but how and why do these genes continue to be passed down the generations? One theory is they have reproductive benefits too.
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For Zapotec artist and weaver Porfirio Gutiérrez, colour is a way to connect with his ancestors' way of life, which has sustained civilisations by living in symbiosis with nature.
E-Tangata
“Black Power Movement was about us discovering, defining, and becoming conscious of our taha Māori and who we were as Māori — and being able to maintain that in our lives.” — Genesis Te Kuru White.
E-Tangata
“I grew up in Porirua. It was a very Polynesian upbringing — Sunday lunches with Nan at her house with taro and chop suey and that sort of thing.” — Monique Fiso.
E-Tangata
“What if Ngāi Tahu had been allowed the reserve, and New Zealand’s walking culture had developed with Māori still owning the land? What kind of hybrid traditions might have emerged if Kemp’s Deed had been honoured, the mahika kai preserved?” — Nic Low.
A new paper argues we can eradicate the coronavirus. But most experts believe that, thanks to the delta variant, COVID is here to stay.
RNZ
Opinion - No governing body is going to out themselves and correct the way our children are treated and it's up to us to drive change, writes Hamish Bidwell.
E-Tangata
"The Crown reckoned full redress was worth around $12 to $15 billion. Our advisers thought it was closer to $20 billion. We settled for $170 million — a lot less, but it allowed Ngāi Tahu to move forward, to rebuild." — Mark Solomon.
Stuff
OPINION: If you're feeling the mental health effects of the IPCC's latest climate change report, you're by no means alone, writes Alison Mau.
Newsroom
The recent Olympics showed we are entering a new era, one in which people can be honest about their triumphs and their struggles, with athletes proving themselves true role models.
RNZ
Sir Brian Roche says advice to set up a stand-alone agency was given at the end of 2020 and it was being "actively pursued again and as recently as two days ago", Roche said.
www.waikato.ac.nz
The sudden death this week of track cyclist Olivia Podmore has rocked New Zealand’s high-performance sporting and cycling communities and raised urgent questions about the culture of elite sport.
Stuff
OPINION: The tragedy of Olivia Podmore’s passing has implications at so many levels, writes Gary Hermansson.
