Sideswipe: May 20: Gendered ready meals
19 May, 2021 05:00 PM
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How the microwave was invented The microwave oven is of the all-time great accidental discoveries of science. In the 1940s, American engineer Percy Spencer was working at Raytheon Technologies testing an active radar while he had a chocolate bar in his pocket. At some point, he noticed that the chocolate had melted into his pocket. Rather than merely changing his trousers, he realised the potential to heat food using a high-density electromagnetic field (and presumably also changed his trousers). He first experimented by getting a bag of popcorn, and attempting to heat that. It worked. He pushed his luck and tried to heat an egg, which exploded spectacularly, thus also inventing the don t put an egg in the microwave rule. Spencer next worked on putting magnetrons (which create microwave radiation) inside a Faraday cage (which blocks electromagne
Convicted paedophile back behind bars after contacting Auckland girl
14 May, 2021 11:23 PM
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The mother has criticised Oranga Tamariki for failing to act to protect her daughter from a sexual predator. Photo / Sylvie Whinray
The mother has criticised Oranga Tamariki for failing to act to protect her daughter from a sexual predator. Photo / Sylvie Whinray
A paedophile who groomed an Auckland teenager online then tried to lure her overseas is back behind bars after contacting the girl again in breach of his release conditions.
But the victim s mother fears the man has targeted other children on social media, saying there is nothing to stop him creating multiple profiles under different aliases.
Jana Hocking: Why I tried to get on exclusive celebrity dating app Raya
13 May, 2021 11:02 PM
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Jana Hocking tries to get on exclusive dating app Raya - but it s harder than it seems. Photo / @jana hocking
Jana Hocking tries to get on exclusive dating app Raya - but it s harder than it seems. Photo / @jana hocking
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OPINION:
You know the saying, we always want what we can t have. Well, it seems that relates to dating apps as well!
Yes, sadly I have fallen into the trap of feeling like an outsider because that blasted dating app, Raya, refuses to accept my membership!
US mum charged after accusing innocent couple of trying to kidnap her kids
3 May, 2021 02:45 AM
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Influencer charged after claiming strangers attempted to kidnap kids. Video / @henrykleeKTVU
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A US mum who claimed a couple tried to snatch her kids while shopping is facing six months in jail after the police investigation took a turn.
An influencer mum in the United States is facing prison time, with police alleging she falsely claimed a Latino couple had tried to kidnap her children.
California woman Katie Sorensen posted two videos to her Instagram account in December last year, claiming Sadie and Eddie Martinez had tried to take her children.
Opinion: Oscars couldn t have failed harder if it tried
26 Apr, 2021 06:59 AM
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Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand and Chloe Zhao were among the big winners at the 93rd Academy Awards, a second ceremony where the usual spectacle has been disrupted by pandemic considerations.
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Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand and Chloe Zhao were among the big winners at the 93rd Academy Awards, a second ceremony where the usual spectacle has been disrupted by pandemic considerations.
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The Oscars could not have stuffed up that final moment more if they tried. Honestly.
For once, the post-Oscars recriminations wash-up isn t on some baffling decision made by the voters – or by Faye Dunaway – but by the people who were running the ceremony.