The Spinoff Weekly: Siouxsie & Toby - how Covid-vaccinated people can still get infected
August 16 - 22 2021
All the locations of interest across NZ on an interactive map, animated for exposure time
As the volume of Covid-19 locations of interest swells into the many hundreds, view all of them on these maps that allow you to sort both by dates of interest and the days when added. Plus: a searchable table with all locations. Built by the Spinoff’s incoming head of data, Harkanwal Singh.
Siouxsie Wiles & Toby Morris: How Covid vaccinated people can still get infected
And why so-called ‘breakthrough cases’ only make it more important that everyone who can gets vaccinated.
The Sunday Essay: My dreams on antidepressants
Ashleigh Young’s medication makes her days brighter and nights much, much darker.
Meet David Correos, the Taskmaster NZ contestant who snapped
He’d given up on television, but then an incendiary freestyle rap battle on Taskmaster NZ helped thrust David Correos towards the mainstream, a place the comedian never thought he’d be. He tells Chris Schulz how it happened.
Things fall apart: why journalism might not survive what’s coming next
Newspapers will die when the old people do but it’s worse than that: we’re barrelling towards a future with no media outlets at all, argues a new book. Danyl McLauchlan explains ‘postjournalism’.
Five toastie hacks to help you through lockdown
Amateur sandwich artist Leonie Hayden on how to get the most out of everyone’s favourite lockdown lunch.
Everything you always wanted to know about waterbeds but were afraid to ask
Were they a health fad? A sex thing? And why did my parents get one in the 90s? Calum Henderson investigates.
These charts show how your degree is probably worth less today – but so is your student loan.
These days, a university degree tends to carry less prestige and market value than it did in the past. But as Emma Vitz writes, it’s generally faster to pay back your student loan today.
Things to do while you’re in the Covid testing queue
Mad Chapman has some handy tips for your long wait.
Super-sharers: How small contributions can push back against inequality
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Creating a truly fair New Zealand will require transformational change. Until we get there, one charity is encouraging superannuitants to give whatever they can.
