Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to andin,
If they can, can everyone else?
You mean like how Christians have laid claim to universal human values?
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to David Winter,
we, as a species, have built something that's colder than space and designed to re-create the conditions of the big bang in order to make knowledge. That's freaking cool
To say nothing of the www we're using to have this conversation - thanks CERN.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Tony Siu,
Tony, does the course content include climate change as the article suggests?
Oh, your link to the course outline answers that (topic 1 of 5 listed):
We consider the important drivers behind our climate system and investigate the hot topics of climate variability and climate change.
The Chris Barton story makes abundantly clear that De Freitas is presenting a distorted view of that topic in a foundation course, to which the University's response seems to be but a sigh.
The Herald asked Professor Glenn McGregor, director of the School of Environment at Auckland University where Geography 101 is taught, whether he agreed with De Freitas's view.
"There is no debate over the direction of change. Global warming is happening and will continue to happen and it is driven by human activities so the recent warming is not part of a natural cycle."
So are the Geography 101 students being let down by getting only one view on the basics of climate change?
"If Chris has not mentioned the IPCC, that is regrettable because the IPCC process is very important," says McGregor.
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And I agree that's an ambitious agenda for one show - could easily be a six part series.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Russell Brown,
Because it's not like de Freitas hasn't already had acres of space in the Herald
Someone really needs to submit a "world is flat" op-ed piece and demand that the rag publish it as 'balance'.
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Southerly: Things to be Grateful For: A…, in reply to David Haywood,
Suitable for people who like the colour white
non-hillside modernist decor
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
with a history of mental instability
You don't need to do that.
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Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, in reply to recordari,
although his death was accidental
Walking into a river fully clothed is accidental?
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to icehawk,
There was never a contract to put tax money aside
That was the earlier arrangement with social security, However there's more than one type of trade off. You may recall a top tax rate of 66% under Muldoon.
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Speaker: This is your National Library, in reply to paynter,
Please feel free to feed those questions to your group. Be interested to hear any feedback.