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Nov 5, 2025 • 18min

"No one will play with me" - teaching kids about friendship

In parenting today - how to coach children on how to make good friendships. It's a tough moment for any parent if a child comes home from school or kindy and says "no one will play with me".
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Nov 5, 2025 • 18min

Tech: Microsoft's Azure outage, hackers choosing to wipe

What was behind Microsoft's Azure outage that impacted businesses around the world? And Wiper attacks are on the rise in New Zealand - these are malware attacks designed to permanently delete data.
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Nov 5, 2025 • 9min

Around the motu: James Pocock in Gisborne

A multimillion-dollar Gisborne site is being investigated by council for a possible new waste facility.
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Nov 5, 2025 • 6min

Book review: Case Studies: A story of plant travel

Lynda Hallinan reviews Case Studies: A story of plant travel, published by Massey University Press.
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Nov 5, 2025 • 8min

Top chef excited by Michelin guide expanding to NZ

Undercover restaurant critics from the Michelin guide are in the country tasting and rating some of the country's best restaurants.
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Nov 5, 2025 • 26min

Historian Alison Bashford on hand reading

While palmistry is now more of an entertainment, it's also been inextrictably intertwined with medicine.  That path from chiromancy - or hand reading - in late medieval times, to modern genetics, has been charted by historian Alison Bashford. She reveals how signs on the hand - its shape, lines, marks, and patterns - have been elaborately decoded over the centuries. Her fascination with chiromancy was sparked when she came across a handprint of a gorilla that had died in
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Nov 5, 2025 • 9min

UK: More prisoners escape, Chancellor pours fuel on tax fire

Harriet Line is Deputy Political Editor of the Daily Mail
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Nov 5, 2025 • 8min

Chch physicist's examination turns NZ X-ray history on its head

Curiosity about an object mounted on his wall at work has led a medical physicist to uncover evidence challenging New Zealand's x-ray history.
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Nov 5, 2025 • 11min

Otago survey finds healthcare failing long covid patients

Long Covid patients report being gaslit about their illness, and feel increasingly let down by the health system.
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Nov 5, 2025 • 22min

Govt de-links ETS from Paris

The carbon price has fallen since the government announced it would de-link the Emissions Trading Scheme from its Paris climate pledges.

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