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New Zealand prime minister Ardern was grappling with whether to go:
“Something had been loosened worldwide,” she says,
with rage everywhere,
public servants being followed and attacked,
as if they were “somehow distinct from being human”.
We all recognise this rage,
but Ardern was at the centre of it,
representing progressive politics, tough Covid measures, empathy, emotion, anti-racism, femaleness;
a symbol of a different time, more rational…

Depth-resolved polarisation sensitive optical coherence tomography reveals the complex microanatomical response of cartilage to compression
Darven Murali Tharan (The University of Auckland, Department of Physics, New Zealand, The Dodd Walls Centre for Quantum and Photonic Technology), Marco Bonesi (The University of Auckland, Department of Physics, New Zealand, The Dodd Walls Centre for Quantum and Photonic Technology), Daniel Everett (The Dodd Walls Centre for Quantum and Photonic Tec…

Depth-resolved polarisation sensitive optical coherence tomography reveals the complex microanatomical response of cartilage to compression
Conventional methods for analysing cartilage microstructure under mechanical loading are largely destructive. In this work, we evaluate the efficacy of using depth-resolved polarisation sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) to study the cartilage morphological response to compression. We show that depth-resolved PS-OCT reveals the microstructure of cartilage under load, and it can do so non-destructively, opening significant possibilities for enhanced clinical assessment of cartilage …

New Zealand-based Halter, which provides smart collars and geofencing software for the dairy industry, raised a $100M Series D led by Bond at a $1B valuation (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

Sky New Zealand buys WBD's local channels business for a token sum of ~$1, giving it ~35% of NZ's linear TV ad market share and 24% of the digital TV equivalent (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/sky-new-zealand-buys-wa…

Sky New Zealand Buys Local Warner Bros Discovery Channels For 60 Cents
Sky New Zealand has acquired Warner Bros Discovery's local channels business for a token sum of NZ$1 (60¢).

nice to see them celebrating the 50th anniversary of "blues for allah" in new zealand! https://c.im/@didgebaba/114935539822501425

new_zealand_collab: New Zealand scientific collaborations (2015)
A network of scientific collaborations among institutions in New Zealand. Nodes are institutions (universities, organizations, etc.), and two nodes i,j are connected if Scopus lists at least one publication with authors at institutions i and j, in the period 2010-2015. Edges are weighted by the number of such collaborations. Nodes are annotated with the categorical type of institution.
This network has 1511 nodes an…

PSA Food Recall Aldi
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand issued the recall on Monday for the 750-gram packets of Urban Eats Japanese Style Vegetable Gyoza.
They have been sold in Aldi stores in NSW, ACT, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia. The affected dumplings have a best-before date of March 27, 2027.

I’m at the point now where I inherently distrust any white man with a bad haircut. https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/114743381099800265

Help Stop New Zealand’s Sheep Abuse! #AnimalRights #sheep

Help Stop New Zealand’s Sheep Abuse
PETA exposed New Zealand shearers beating, stomping on, and throwing sheep – urge brands like Helly Hansen and Fjällräven to drop wool now.

New Zealand-based Xero, which offers accounting software for small businesses, agrees to acquire payments software company Melio in a $2.5B cash-and-stock deal (Rajasik Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactiona