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Blood clot danger: How I nearly died and what happened next
11 Oct 2019
First Person - Blood clots kill tens of thousands of people worldwide every year. With World Thrombosis Day this weekend, Nik Dirga writes of his brush with death.
Opinion: Guns create 'a map of blood' in US, but nothing will change
7 Aug 2019
A lack of movement on gun control in the face of hundreds of mass shootings in the US is maddening, but nothing will change, writes Nik Dirga, an American journalist living in New Zealand.
Stranger Things: Growing up in the 1980s
10 Jul 2019
Review: Like the kids in Stranger Things, Nik Dirga was a gawky American 13-year-old in the summer of 1985, and writes that the hit Netflix show gets an awful lot of the era right. Video
