Editorial | The Other Side

Posted 10:22am Sunday 16th July 2017 by Lucy Hunter

Liberals are a bunch of bike-riding, tree-hugging, whale-saving, big-government-promoting, tax-increasing, flip-flopping, wishy-washy, namby-pamby bedwetters. Conservatives are a bunch of meat-eating, game-hunting, tax-decreasing, hard-drinking, Bible-bashing, black-and-white-thinking, Read more...

The Hell Hole | The Piss Baby

Posted 2:50pm Sunday 16th July 2017 by Fanny Clive-Trevor

The contractions had started. The woman’s husband was at work, and she was at home, on maternity leave, waiting in boredom for the last weeks of her pregnancy to end. The thing she had longed for throughout the past eight months was beginning, but it was too soon. She had called her husband, Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 15

Posted 11:30am Sunday 16th July 2017 by Charlie O’Mannin

To start this week, the ODT is getting all down on optimism. The ODT gave up on its dream of being a dancer a long time ago.   Next, the ODT is worried. Deeply worried. It has lost its reflection. All it sees when it looks into the burnished bronze disk, the one that the Regions Read more...

Sage Advice | The City of Dunedin (Part I)

Posted 2:28pm Sunday 16th July 2017 by Mat Clarkson

“We run Dunedin and every other city in this nation. You can’t stop us, because you need us. Just let us do what we do, and nobody gets hurt.” - Dave, spokesperson of ‘The Workmen’ Dunedin chapter   Over the ages, the city of Dunedin has been home to many Read more...

David Clark | Warm dry housing and students

Posted 11:35am Sunday 16th July 2017 by David Clark

Every New Zealander should expect to be able to live in a warm dry house: students included. But, unfortunately many students still endure cold, damp and mouldy accommodation. I’m sure that isn’t news to many of you reading this column. Substandard living conditions contribute to poor Read more...

Lucky in Love | Manny & Fran

Posted 2:35pm Sunday 16th July 2017 by Lovebirds

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Vapourium Presents Science Tank | Tardigrades

Posted 2:59pm Sunday 16th July 2017 by Chelle Fitzgerald

For the last 500 million years, the micro-animal Hypsibius dujardini, otherwise known as tardigrades, have ruled our planet. If you’ve never even heard of these bad boys, then boy howdy it’s time to learn you. Measuring up to a whopping 1mm in length, their curious little three Read more...

Inventions Out of Time | Gunpowder

Posted 2:20pm Sunday 16th July 2017 by Charlie O’Mannin

Rating: 4/5 Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese, along with everything else ever. Lots of people talk shit about gunpowder due to its unfortunate association with guns. However, such an association misses the fundamental essence of gunpowder: it smells really, really, really, good. It is a Read more...

Science Tank | Schrodinger’s cat & the double slit experiment

Posted 2:30pm Sunday 9th July 2017 by Chelle Fitzgerald

In 1935, an Austrian physicist named Erwin Schrödinger published his “Schrödinger's Cat” thought experiment to explain superposition (a quantum mechanics principle stating that something exists in all possible states until it is directly observed or measured, at which point Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 14

Posted 11:20am Sunday 9th July 2017 by Charlie O’Mannin

 The ODT has spent the break deep in thought. The ODT is currently accepting submissions on the problem in the form of be-splattered tissues.   In other news, an isolated cabbage farmer struggled out of a nightmare in sheets lathered with sweat. “Oh no,” he Read more...