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Science, Bitches! | Issue 21

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by Hannah Twigg

Chocolate: everybody loves it. And good news! Unlike the pseudoscience we discussed last time, there are actual (peer-reviewed) studies that show that some compounds in chocolate are good for you! Caffeine has been shown time and time again to have benefits for your health. Regular caffeine Read more...

Daily Grind | Issue 21

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by M and G

Rating: 5/5 Living in North Dunedin, it is sometimes hard to remember that not every street is littered with broken TVs and patches of vomit. Thankfully, The Good Earth provides a brief respite from everyday life, and can be found right around the corner from Scarfie-ville. Located on Read more...

Love Is Blind | Issue 21

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by Lovebirds

DaisyI always was surprised that these blind dates never accidentally put two people who knew each other together. It would always be the case that it happened to me. We were both debaters. I had never really found the guy interesting or attractive in the least bit – he always pissed me off Read more...

The More Things Change | Issue 21

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by Jessica Bromell

This week in history, societies advance … or try to. September 2, 31 BC: In the final and decisive confrontation that sealed the demise of the Roman Republic, Octavian faced off against Antony and Cleopatra at a place called Actium. Octavian was the adopted great-nephew of Julius Caesar, and Read more...

The Final Exam of Our Lives | Opinion

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by Guy McCallum

There is no autopilot for freedom and democracy. Perhaps it is this fact that should be taken for granted, instead of the goods we derive from them. It’s hard to imagine the end of the present way of life that they make possible – too distant a possibility to be credible. But it’s like a Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 21

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by Sam McChesney

There was but one thing on the ODT’s brilliant and incisive journalistic mind last week, and no, it wasn’t Syria. On 29 August, this was the front page: This was the front page of the next section: This was the front page of the sports section: And this Read more...

Jacobin Encourages Lawlessness | Opinion

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by Jacobin

A young man who is a friend of theirs has cancer in the spine. He is just over twenty years old, is experiencing extreme nausea, and is in the late stages of the condition. I don’t really know who he is, but we share mutual friends and I know he is a brother of mine. We are all brothers in our Read more...

Editorial | Issue 21

Posted 3:48pm Sunday 1st September 2013 by Sam McChesney

There’s a great scene in season five of The Wire in which journalists at the Baltimore Sun are discussing an upcoming series on poverty in the city. The paper’s veteran journalists begin to point out the complex web of factors that contribute to poverty – education, parenting, drugs, nutrition, race Read more...

The More Things Change | Issue 20

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Jessica Bromell

This week, some things happen in Europe. August 23, 79: Mount Vesuvius began stirring, and it was all downhill from there. There’d already been small earthquakes that apparently nobody realised were warning signs, and everybody was left fleeing for their lives when the volcano went off. Read more...

Anarchy or the State? | Opinion

Posted 4:47pm Sunday 18th August 2013 by Guy McCallum

Who will build the roads? It’s a question frequently posed to libertarians. Well, private citizens (you and I) pay taxes to the government, and they pay a company of private citizens to do the work. The government (at least in this country) simply decides where the roads need to be; it is private Read more...