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[ad_1] Stephen Colbert highly praised New Zealand’s Covid-19 pandemic response on an episode of the Late Show With Stephen Colbert that aired today. Your playlist will load after this ad. The TV star also praised the Prime Minister. Source: CBS Colbert relayed previously unreleased footage from his trip to New …

[ad_1] Players practice at the Auckland ASB Tennis Center in January under orange skies, due to smoke from the Australian bushfires. Photo / Jason Oxenham The unusual nature of Australia’s Black Summer wildfires may have ushered in a new fire-fueled “ice age” and the world appears to have “crossed a …

[ad_1] Supplied Professor Jim Flynn was an ardent defender of free speech. Professor James (Jim) Robert Flynn, internationally renowned professor of psychology and politics and defender of free speech, has died. The emeritus professor at the University of Otago passed away on Friday at the age of 86. He developed …

[ad_1] World Dec 12, 2020, 12:55 PM4 minutes to read US President Donald Trump previously criticized the FDA for taking too long to authorize the Pfizer vaccine. Photo / AP The United States has given the final go-ahead to the country’s first Covid-19 vaccine, marking what could be the beginning …

[ad_1] Internationally renowned academic and professor emeritus of political studies at the University of Otago, Jim Flynn, has passed away at the age of 86. A long-time chair of the politics department, he was best known internationally for his research on the “Flynn effect,” a substantial and sustained increase in …

[ad_1] The United States has given the final go-ahead to the country’s first Covid-19 vaccine, marking what could be the beginning of the end of an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. Vaccines for healthcare workers and nursing home residents are expected to begin in the next few days …

[ad_1] Under fire, Professor Anne-Marie Brady, a China specialist, says there was nothing to justify the “gagging order” she faced after raising concerns about links between New Zealand academics and Chinese universities. Several universities and academics complained about the material that Brady included in an article titled Holding a pen …

[ad_1] More jobs have been created in Marlborough than have been lost following the coronavirus lockdown, reveals a new report. But the good times after Covid are not expected to last, and the economy is expected to hit a low point sometime next year. Infometrics senior economist Alistair Schorn presented …

[ad_1] Researchers hoping to make the first confirmed live sighting of a beaked whale species in western Mexico say they have instead seen what they believe to be a completely unknown species. “We saw something new. Something that was not expected in this area, something that does not match, neither …

[ad_1] New Zealand’s poor results on an international math and science test are attributed to factors including grouping children by ability and the previous government’s national standards in reading, writing and math. New Zealand’s 9- and 13-year-olds’ scores fell in both subjects in the International Study of Trends in Math …