New Zealand Society

How Middlemore, one of New Zealand's largest hospitals, is preparing for Ebola. Read more Audio

Lauren Dunningham, aka B-girl Legend, and Jody Stewart, aka B-girl Nossy, know a thing or two about battling it out on the dance floor. Their dance style of choice is "breaking", or breakdancing and… Read more Audio

Why we shouldn't be spamming people across too many social networking sites and why cropping is an instagrammers best friend. Read more Audio

Ever wondered what a blow torch and chainsaw sounded like underwater? It's dangerous work and often in very dirty conditions. Commercial divers maintain and build our ports and waterways every day of… Read more Audio

The Tempo Dance Festival in Auckland sees the return of one of our more interesting artists. Expat Alexa Wilson is a dancer and choreographer, a performance artist and a theorist who, in her own… Read more Audio

A lettuce head can produce up to 30 000 seeds - roughly one for every person on the Kapiti Coast. The Kapiti Seedbank acts as a community chest of seeds with an emphasis on finding varieties of… Read more Audio

Anna Butterfield sees seeds as cultural artefacts, each bean or basil seed carrying the story of its cultivation. And when you consider there are 300 000 edible plants in the world - and we only eat… Read more Audio

This school holiday, Capital E are presenting a Book Bazaar as a way to get children excited about storytelling through words and pictures. To help them along, authors from Gecko Press are leading… Read more Audio

Christchurch creatives and inventors are investing their energies in a new arts hub: The Exchange. Katy Gosset pays a visit. Audio

How do you turn stressed middle aged men into happier individuals? An Auckland yoga teacher has come up with an idea. Audio