Pattern recognition
How Tara Viggo fled fast fashion and cut herself a new career.
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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.
Eating up
To help her people thrive, health scientist Amy Maslen-Miller first wants to give them a seat at the table.
Kids in mud
Auckland dad Harry Scott (Ngāi Tahu) teaches outdoor ed to young kids—although, really, they’re teaching themselves.
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 musical, and a high-profile complaint to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. Two years on, she’s also told the backstory.
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, Ngāti Hine).
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 birds.
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 wrote it.
Jade Kake wants to reinvent how we live
Her idea: to revive the papa kāinga, the communal Māori village.
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