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• Feathers in their caps

  Early feathered fliers were prodigiously adapted for flight.

• Mercury heads way out west

  On Monday, Mercury will reach its greatest western elongation when it is almost 25 degrees from the sun. The next few mornings offer the perfect opportunity to see the innermost planet. For the southern hemisphere, this is the crème de la crème of Mercury’s morning apparitions in 2023.

• At the movies

  A Good Person (R16) ★★★

• Moving chronicle of life in the mountains and what followed

  NOT SET IN STONE

• Fantastic cast does its best

  MAYBE I DO

• Capturing villages, rural areas from her travels

  A ruin in rural England proved an inspiration for Frances Hodgkins.

• PAIN IN THE BACK

• Orang-Utan. Orang-Utan. (1971) ★★★★+

• The Dublin Bay Rose

  In 1996, the pitcher was carried to the rose

• Could AI write this column?

  I had some fun playing with ChatGPT the other day, asking it who I was. The results are best summed up as kind of true, in an alternate universe.

Featured documents

• Three Waters is the largest local government reform in decades. But in many minds, the rollout has been muddled and mired in controversy. To ‘‘unmuddy’’ Three Waters, three people near to the action speak off-the-record, giving Bruce Munro their take on the reason for the reforms, whether they are...

• A first step towards controlled change

  We now have a plan of action to guide our climate change response. But is it any good? Members of the University of Otago’s He Kaupapa Hononga climate change research network run the ruler over it....

• Granddad’s part in Hitler’s downfall

  A Hollywood movie about a desperate attempt to fool Hitler features Rear-Admiral John Godfrey, head of the British Naval Intelligence Division. Some details in the film are not accurate, Rachel Gibb, of Dunedin, tells Bruce Munro. Gibb should know — Admiral Godfrey was not only the abrasive...

• Granddad’s part in Hitler’s downfall

  A Hollywood movie about a desperate attempt to fool Hitler features Rear-Admiral John Godfrey, head of the British Naval Intelligence Division. Some details in the film are not accurate, Rachel Gibb, of Dunedin, tells Bruce Munro. Gibb should know — Admiral Godfrey was not only the abrasive...

• Making the list

  Just six novels remain in contention for the world’s most prestigious literary award — The Booker Prize — which will be awarded next week. The Otago Daily Times’ fiction faction cast their eye over this year’s finalists....

• A contested death

  Te Wētere and the Rev. John Whiteley crossed paths during the New Zealand Wars, but beyond that much is unclear, Anaru Eketone writes in this essay from a new book....

• STILL OFF TRACK

  For those at the eye of the storm, the latest chapter in the effort to address climate change risks more compromise and failure, writes Tom McKinlay....

• DEATH unleashed

  She loves weasels but was brought to New Zealand 50 years ago to help eradicate both weasels and stoats. Now, Emeritus Professor Carolyn King, while supporting the goal of a predator-free New Zealand by 2050, is warning against repeating mistakes that made Otago ground-zero for the disastrous...

• KALAHARI CALLING

  Gillian Bremner and her husband Graeme have swapped a life in temperate, green New Zealand for semi-arid, ochre Botswana. The former head of Presbyterian Support Otago tells Bruce Munro about the trials and joys of building a new life and three businesses in Africa’s Kalahari Basin....

• Blowingtheir tops

  THE...