61 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Human Body

Posted 2:57pm Sunday 11th July 2010

1. There are about ten times as many bacterial cells in the human body as human cells.   2. Newborn babies often lactate (produce breast milk), because they’re born with their mum’s hormones in their blood.   3. The muscle that makes men, um … retract Read more...

Soapbox - 10

Posted 2:44pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Those of you who have done or are doing Humanities degrees will probably be well-aware of the scorn you have to face telling people, especially older relatives, about your degree, your areas of interest, and your future plans. This scorn, though repeated many times, never pierced my Read more...

Adam Thomson

Posted 2:40pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Straight back from a win over the Brumbies last weekend, Adam Thomson's season is really just beginning. With two more games to play in Australia (at the time this interview went to press), AND the provincial season and the All Black tours still to come, it is sure to be a long year. This is Read more...

Te Roopu Maori - 10

Posted 2:14pm Sunday 11th July 2010

e mihi tenei ki nga akonga Maori o Otago, he mihi nui hoki ki nga akonga e mahi ana i te Tohu Paetahi Tauhokohoko! Kia Ora to all our Maori students at Otago, in particular those who study Commerce, who have come from all over Aotearoa, both first-year and returning students! This year we Read more...

It’s graduation time.

Posted 2:02pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Graduating Over the next few weekends it will be impossible to book a table at a restaurant or drive down George Street without being run over by a horde of people with weird square hats. Why? It’s graduation time, of course. You’ll get there soon. Critic examines the major courses of study at Read more...

Soapbox - 09

Posted 1:40pm Sunday 11th July 2010

“Gee, she’s just begging to be raped …”     In New Zealand, one in three girls and one in six boys experience sexual abuse. Currently, one in four women experience rape or attempted rape in their lifetime. New Zealand has some of the highest rates of sexual abuse in the world. Read more...

Critic Rates The Exec (part 02)

Posted 1:18pm Sunday 11th July 2010

Katie Bryan – Rizzo the Rat Commerce Representative Critic had never seen this “Katie” character previous to the presentation of her first report, and apparently neither had the Executive, as Katie has been spending a large proportion of her time with OCOM. Her first Read more...

Martin Thompson - 5 New Works ( Brett McDowell Gallery )

Posted 3:56am Wednesday 23rd June 2010

Hours of meticulous labour, complete concentration, and mathematical genius are the artistic virtues currently on display at the Brett McDowell Gallery. New Zealand artist Martin Thompson is showing his five newest works, which exhibit his fanatical obsession with systemised geometric drawing, his Read more...

An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar - Taryn Simon

Posted 2:52am Tuesday 18th May 2010

American photographer Taryn Simon aims to reveal the guarded secrets that lie beneath the surface of American identity and the daily functioning of American life. This exhibition showcases a selection of photographs from Simon’s four-year project in which she plays detective, gaining access Read more...