Newsroom daily quiz, Monday 23 September - Newsroom
WEB4 days ago · Newsroom daily quiz, Monday 23 September. 23/09/2024. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) What is the name of the game where you must place five chips in a row on a board?
Shoppers go down road to Kmart, denting Warehouse sales
WEB2 days ago · Photo: Getty Images. Wellington shopper Elvira George would rather drive 40 minutes to Kmart in Porirua than visit her local Warehouse store five minutes down the road. The Miramar hairdresser used to pop in to the Warehouse store at Lyall Bay every other weekend and have a look around if she had a spare 20 minutes, but said she goes …
Rural academic activity stifled by ‘geographical narcissism’
WEB3 days ago · These attitudes are further reinforced by the systematic bias that favours urban specialist expertise over rural experience and wisdom. Malin Fors, a Norwegian rural academic, has labelled this bias ‘geographical narcissism’.. Those of us living and working in rural communities and our representative bodies are not immune to the geographical …
Book of the Week: Paddy f#$%ing Gower - Newsroom
WEB3 days ago · It’s journalism, powerfully and vividly presented, told by a master storyteller to one of the best reporters in New Zealand. Big story, expert collaboration; sometimes, a very good book. This is the F#$%ing News by Paddy Gower (Allen & Unwin, $34.99) is available in bookstores nationwide. Book of the Week.
From bystander effect to bystander effective - Newsroom
WEB4 days ago · The ‘bystander effect’ has been a staple of psychology texts since the 1964 murder of Kitty Genovese and the New York Times published an article claiming 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack and did nothing about it. While the Times article turned out to have inaccuracies, subsequent research replicated the effect, demonstrating …
Coalition should worry about reality outside, not this theatre of the ...
WEB3 days ago · The theatrical excerpts were from an ongoing series called Question Time – a name derived from the question it raises of “what is the point of all this?”. The Theatre of the Absurd genre – of which this is a great example – is defined by having no purpose, goal or objective and such productions go in circles, simply ending up where ...
An obligation in Tairāwhiti - Newsroom
WEB4 days ago · Within a space of 20 years, at the turn of the twentieth century, the indigenous forest had been cleared from Tairāwhiti. The establishment of the Native Land Court, which was effectively an act of war by other means, swept away ownership and control. Pākehā farming methods persisted for most of the twentieth century.
Three maps that reveal NZ's climate future - Newsroom
WEB2 days ago · Niwa’s modelling produced results for three different climate scenarios constructed by the IPCC: a low-emissions pathway, a middle-of-the-road pathway and a high-emissions path. Newsroom has used the middle-of-the-road pathway, called Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 2-4.5, for the previous charts in this article.
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