By Chris Pidgeon Reading time: 13 minutes Light pollution has removed a crucial element of our ancestry. For thousands of millennia, we watched the stars at night. Over time, we learnt to use these celestial beings as tools to help us navigate, tell time, or explore our...
By Jennifer Little Reading time: 16 minutes At a recent public talk in New Plymouth, guest speaker and race relations commissioner Meng Foon was introduced as “made in China, born in Gisborne, and working for Aotearoa”. A succinct bio, it captures the unique concoction of his origins...
By Alina Suchanski Reading time: 14 minutes Dubbed “the common cold of mental illness”, depression has reached epidemic proportions amongst European nations and English speaking countries. At the other end of the spectrum, there are languages that don’t even have a word for ‘depression’. Alina Suchanski explores...
By Jennifer Little Reading time: 12 minutes Could a sensual new dance style that came out of Angola be taking over New Zealand’s social Latin dance scene, as an alternative to the energetic spinning and hip rotations of Cuban-origin salsa? The new kid on the block is called...
By Hayley White Reading time: 11 minutes When I was a young girl, my aunty lived in Shanghai, southern China. When she came home to New Zealand to visit, she brought me back a beautiful red dress called a cheongsam. It was and continues to be, the...
By Alina Suchanski Reading time: 12 minutes Most animals in the world have a voice, yet only one species evolved to have a language. There are more than 7,000 languages globally, but do they all have the same importance geographically, economically, or socially? Is linguistic diversity an...
By Alina Suchanski Reading time: 14 minutes Lathee Verrall has taught English in New Zealand, Singapore, and the Maldives. Since she retired from her teaching career, she has published two books and is working on a third.. With such a track record, one might be surprised that...
By Hayley White Reading time: 12 minutes One of the things I am hearing more and more kōrero about is generational trauma, especially when talking about Māori experiences in the many years after colonisation. Generational trauma is sometimes called intergenerational or transgenerational trauma, a concept that was...
By Katie Stone Reading time: 13 minutes In a world dominated by technology, few of us could imagine a life - or even an hour - away from some form of connectivity. It’s not just that technology has made our lives more comfortable. It’s allowed us to...
By Hayley White Reading time: 11 minutes [caption id="attachment_3486" align="alignright" width="600"] Camila Antonia Noa Núñez, aka Amila[/caption] 20-year-old singer/songwriter Camila Antonia Noa Núñez, aka Amila, was born in Santiago, Chile. As a young, up-and-coming pop star who found her feet in the New Zealand music industry, she has...