

IJ and MD
Jun 25, 2021
172: Revealing hidden history is dangerous
If you regard an 8’ human being as a giant (at 2.4 metres, that's ceiling height), then giants do not fit the theory of evolution that...


IJ
Jun 11, 2021
Sidestep: Extermination of the Moa
It can be proven, it seems, that an extremely low-density human population exterminated New Zealand moa New Zealand moa are the only late...


IJ
May 28, 2021
171: The summer of '42
The date of 1642 is significant in New Zealand's history as it was the year the first any European (that we know of) set eyes on this...

IJ
May 22, 2021
Political - Changing History
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/draft-history-curriculum-misses-600-years-of-aotearoa-new-zealands-past-panel/26NXF6L7FKZPZWNAWXFROXVANI/#...


MD
May 14, 2021
Sidestep: Traditions and Legends
COLLECTED FROM THE NATIVES OF MURIHIKU. (SOUTHLAND, NEW ZEALAND.) by H. BEATTIE. 1918. AN EARLIER CANOE. After having given the Waitaha...


IJ
May 7, 2021
1000 years
Day after day, I feel myself slowing down, what does it mean? The air has changed, it's getting harder to breathe, or so it would seem...


IJ
Apr 30, 2021
170: Moriori Differences
Yes, we are still on this, and for a good reason. It is easy for an academic to condemn such comparisons from the perspective of 2021...


YM
Apr 16, 2021
Sidestep: Cultural? It isn't now
At one time Europeans (and others) kept slaves. It was almost accepted practice then - it isn’t now. At one time Maori kept slaves. It...


IJ
Apr 2, 2021
169: Melanesian musings
For the uneducated in ocean going travel and looking at the fact that Melanesia is closer to NZ than Polynesia, you'd be right to at...


MD
Mar 19, 2021
Sidestep: The Patupaiarehe
We don't go much for these legends. But that doesn't mean these people, or a form of them, didn't exist, we are more sceptical for the...