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I feel the challenge more keenly when I’m asked to recommend directors with digital cred who aren’t ageing white men. Given I’m an ageing white man who is aware of my limitations, it’s a question I appreciate the import of. Equally, I’m aware that most of the people I recommend are already pretty committed and have waiting lists that go around the digital corner and down the digital highway.
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There are shockingly low levels of women, Maori and Pacific people working in New Zealand’s tech sector, Mike O’Donnells says. (File photo)
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Auckland University research fellow Kate Hannah tells you what to look for to identify misinformation about the Covid-19 virus and vaccine.
The Pharmacy Council has issued a warning after an Auckland chemist unwittingly helped distribute an magazine. The owner of Lambs Pharmacy & Natural Therapies Centre on Karangahape Rd, who asked not to be named, told
Stuff copies of the first edition of a Covid misinformation magazine were dropped off about five weeks ago. They remained on display at the front of the shop for about four days before a customer commented on them, after which the owner said they were binned.
The ice loss estimates come from a new book,
Climate Aotearoa: What’s happening and what we can do about it. Chapter author and climate scientist Jim Salinger said that New Zealand’s glaciers lose an average of 1 billion tonnes (the equivalent weight of 2.3 million jumbo jets) each year, as the climate warms. A recent study found that globally, glaciers are losing 267 billion tonnes of ice each year, though the team used different data and calculations. Both the formation and melting of glaciers have changed in the last 70 years, he said. Glaciers form on mountains that have a cap of snow year-round. When snow builds up over time on these peaks, it becomes packed together and forms ice, turning into a solid sheet. Eventually, this sheet begins to move under its own weight, creeping slowly down a valley.
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