Holy Boy! From Nintendo to Nepal

A Kiwi kid is giving up his game-boy, chicken nuggets, cricket, pokemon, and other typical Kiwi 7year-old delights to study Buddhist philosophy and rituals at a monastry in India for the next 15 years. Karma Kunzang Thubten Dorje has officially been declared the reincarnation of a venerated high Tibetan lama who died in the 1950s. “He’s pure Kiwi” his Dad says.


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Unique Prehistoric Dolphin Discovered

Unique Prehistoric Dolphin Discovered

A prehistoric dolphin newly discovered in the Hakataramea Valley in South Canterbury appears to have had a unique method for catching its prey, Evrim Yazgin writes for Cosmos magazine. Aureia rerehua was…