The lacemaker

In the studio with textile artist Rowan Panther...

How to stand alone

King’s Counsel Sally Gepp on the frustrating, high stakes, necessary work of environmental law....

Good dogs

Because of Willy Marsh, hundreds of dogs are choosing not to chase kiwi and penguins....

The tripmakers

Together, Cameron Lacey and Marie Crowe are delivering a New Zealand-first therapy: psilocybin, the hallucinogen...

Truth and power

Karlo Mila builds poetry from data and documents....

Pattern recognition

How Tara Viggo fled fast fashion and cut herself a new career....

The plant hunter

For Jay Kuethe, there’s just something about Passiflora....

A sense of sham

From retirement, David Bimler has embarked on a second career: exposing fraudulent research....

The voyager

How building a traditional vaka, and navigating like her ancestors, led Ana Maine home....

Net gains

Terressa Shandley Kollat’s a star on TikTok—but she’s much more at home in the water....

Homecooked science

When Jennifer Bannister was growing up, girls were secretaries, or teachers, or nurses. She persevered....

Let it go

How soprano Madeleine Pierard found her voice....

Eating up

To help her people thrive, health scientist Amy Maslen-Miller first wants to give them a...

Kids in mud

Auckland dad Harry Scott (Ngāi Tahu) teaches outdoor ed to young kids—although, really, they’re teaching...

A life in care

How Hartley Holder founded the only guinea pig rescue in the country....

Metamorphosis

A tattoo artist traces his history—and his future....

In Love With the Weeds

Taxonomist Roberta D’Archino is finding and cataloguing our marine flora, one dive at a time....

A dissection

In her last years of high school, Cadence Chung wrote a book of poems, a...

The ice man

Antarctic historian David Harrowfield has spent a lifetime collecting—objects, friendships and memories....

Life hacks

How a diagnosis made life better for cybersecurity engineer Denise Carter-Bennett (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Ngāpuhi,...

The critter made me do it

The origin story of Orokonui Ecosanctuary’s environmental educator, Samuel Purdie...

Dane Mitchell’s art is all about lost things

His most recent exhibition at Auckland’s Two Rooms catalogues all 107 of New Zealand’s extinct...

Warren Tate investigates unexplained illnesses.

He could have retired years ago, but there’s still so much to do....

Oscar Kightley wishes his play wasn’t relevant

The actor, writer and director’s play Dawn Raids is being restaged, 25 years after he...

Jade Kake wants to reinvent how we live

Her idea: to revive the papa kāinga, the communal Māori village....

What we hold within

Kurahapainga Te Ua, called Kura, on joining a top kapa haka team, Te Waka Huia,...

The sound of poi

Georgia Latu is the chief executive of Pōtiki Poi and a high-school student in Dunedin....

Deep impact

Marine scientist and freediver Kura Paul-Burke on restoring the moana—with action, not just research....

A fisherman’s journey

Francisco Blaha, an Argentine-New Zealander, has made his home in the region that changed him:...

Turning the tide

Researcher, writer and activist Tina Ngata (Ngāti Porou) rethinks what’s portrayed as normal....

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