In 1938, a year before the beginning of the second world war, two German scientists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, accidentally discovered nuclear fission. Germany was big into its master race and genocide shit at that time and had the cunning plan to try and develop a weapon to...
It’s been known for a while that us humans are causing climate change, the increasing frequency of devastating extreme weather events and unprecedented rate of extinctions should have been a dead giveaway, so it’s pretty funny to think there are still climate change deniers out there. Unlike the lyrics...
One day you get the news that all of your hardwork has finally paid off and the big break you have been striving for is finally here. The next day you are lying on your back playing a corpse. It’s a great metaphor for the life of a working...
Art is an infinite pool of trials, errors and discoveries. Emily Brook Watt is a design student here at the University of Waikato, cultivating her past documentaries such as ‘The Dark Side of Fast Fashion’, she is currently workshopping something new. Emily speaks to Nexus about the film industry,...
By now you should have heard of the cyber attack on Waikato Hospital; a Russian ransomware holding communication hostage, cancelling elective surgeries and rendering doctors and nurses powerless to call codes, contact each other and find patient details. We asked a cyber security consultant to give us the lowdown....
Talofa, kia ora! As your Pacific Director for 2021, my role is to simply be the bridge between WSU and the pacific students. My role is essential in communicating messages between the WSU and the pacific students and vice versa. I engage frequently with the Pacific Students Associations on...
If your biggest personality trait is that you haven’t downloaded TikTok then you must have more free time than the rest of us, who are still learning to dance to renegade. Spend the free time you have and give these candles a go. They might light up your life...
Delicious gooey chocolate brownies can be enjoyed fresh out of the oven, with a dollop of cream or laced with marijuana. The opportunities are endless. For the sake of this week’s installment of Slightly Stoned Chef, these are the plain brownies you’d make after consuming the naughty ones first. ...
Crawl -3 Jak Rāta Listen, the prospect of Effy Stonem (Kaya Scodelario) fighting against killer crocs should be more than enough to have audience’s flooding in to see the 2019 film, Crawl. The premise was interesting enough with Scodelario as protagonist Haley, a state champion swimmer, racing against the...
Cows and sheep make heaps of fucking money. In 2019, they contributed $12.6 billion to New Zealand’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It’s no surprise that the motherfuckers contribute to under 40% of our greenhouse gas emissions for the same year. But it is a surprise that $12.6 billion is...
