Ten things girls need most
One in five girls has a diagnosed anxiety disorder, according to Australian psychologist Steve Biddulph, who says girlhood has become more lonely, pressured and unkind.
Biddulph, who has been working in the industry for 40 years, is also a parent educator and has just written a new book called 10 Things Girls Need Most.
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Insight: is online porn the new sex-ed teacher?
Horror stories are emerging from parents trying to protect children as young as seven from the proliferation of online pornography.
Some have spoken of their fears in trying to navigate the minefield.
But how damaging is easy access to online pornography for young minds and what is known about its effects?
How food affects mood
image from The Happy Kitchen, by Rachel Kelly Photo: supplied
We all know a good meal can change our mood for the better, but Rachel Kelly takes food and mood a step further.
She runs workshops with the mental health charity Mind and shares recipes that have helped her manage her depression and anxiety in a book, The Happy Kitchen.
Sam Neill on his 'brilliant' friend John Clarke
Actor Sam Neill says the late John Clarke was a precociously gifted satirist and showman, and one of New Zealand's finest ever comedians.
Mr Clarke, who was best-known in New Zealand for creating the Fred Dagg character in the 1970s, died while trekking through the Victoria bush on 9 April.
The pair met while studying at Victoria University nearly 50 years ago, and have stayed friends since then.
Water Fools? Greening of Mackenzie
It's the closest thing New Zealand has to a desert. The Mackenzie Basin landscape is not replicated anywhere else in the country, let alone the world, and it is being changed irreversibly.
The once-pristine lakes in the MacKenzie Country are showing ill-effects of land intensification.
Mackenzie Basin Photo: Gavin Wills
New Zealand's invisible women scientists
Kate Hannah from Te Pūnaha Matatini at the University of Auckland says women's contribution to science have been overlooked because the history books have been written by men.
Hannah has written an article, 'Invisible Women of NZ's Scientific History', for a special issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Bill Nighy: 'I have a tendency to project doom'
Bill Nighy Photo: Edinburgh Film Festival / CC BY NC ND 2.0
The award-winning British actor Bill Nighy was recently in the country to promote Their Finest – a film about a British film crew's attempts to boost morale during WWII by making a propaganda film.
He spoke to RNZ's Kim Hill.
Polarity puzzle: Is the earth's magnetic field reversing?
What’s north would become south. Photo: NASA, CC BY John Tarduno, University of Rochester and Vincent Hare, University of Rochester
In the past, south was north and north was south - but now there are reports that patches of the earth's magnetic field deep under the earth's crust are weakening and even reversing.
Danish dramas vs Kiwi soaps
Sidse Babett Knudsen as Birgitte Nyborg, the first female prime minister of Denmark, in the TV series Borgen Photo: Mike Kollšffel
A quarter of the New Zealand population regularly watch Danish TV dramas, while the highest-rating local offering attracted an audience of just over 250,000 last year. Mediawatch asks a Danish expert what their secret is.
Mammoth iceberg dwarfs Canadian town
A massive iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, has everyone talking. Ferrytown resident Charlie Dunne tells Checkpoint about all the icebergs that float past, and so much more.
