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Cowards, liars and great apes - Parliament's zingers
Cowards, liars and great apes - Parliament's zingers
Sometimes a good quip is too tempting for MPs to resist but who decides when they've gone too far? Jamie Tahana takes a look at Parliament's 'sickest burns'.
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Being socially awkward
We've all had one of those awkward experiences when we wanted to melt into the floor; making a socially clumsy comment, racing up to someone you think you know, but discover you don't, holding on to a… Audio
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Trailblazing maths genius dies aged 40
Trailblazing maths genius dies aged 40
Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to receive the Fields Medal, has died of breast cancer in the US.
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Teachers 'taking on' underfunded ESOL without training
Teachers 'taking on' underfunded ESOL without training
Teachers are warning funding has not kept up with the number of children needing help to speak English, which has increased by more than 50 percent in the last decade.
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Two charter schools to open in Rotorua and Taupō
Two charter schools to open in Rotorua and Taupō
Two new charter schools targetting Māori students have been given the green light in Rotorua and Taupō.
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Man suspended for teaching while drunk
Man suspended for teaching while drunk
A Northland teacher has been suspended for two years for drinking alcohol at school, causing his students' grades to suffer.
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Interactive online STEM subject boost for NCEA students
A new online tool in education has been rolled out in Northland to help NCEA students in rural areas, where it can be difficult to attract specialist teachers of STEM subjects. STEM Online NZ is a… Audio
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Bee's eye view could help robots, drones
Bee's eye view could help robots, drones
The insects' highly efficient five-eye visual system could be adapted for machines, scientists say.
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Wave forecasting
Kathryn Ryan talks to Dr Richard Gorman, a NIWA scientists who specialises in wave forecasting. He says advances in mathematical models, satellite technology and supercomputers is giving us an… Audio
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5G Rural Internet
The United Nations say connectivity to the Internet is a basic human right, however one-year on, it says half of the planet is not connected. Most of these users live in rural and low-income areas… Audio
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Marshalls high school students struggle with maths
Marshalls high school students struggle with maths
Reports from the Marshall Islands say only two high school students out of nearly 600 have scored high enough in mathematics to directly enter courses at the College of the Marshall Islands.
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Rhema Vaithianathan - The algorithm ace
Audio 24 Jun 2017Professor Rhema Vaithianathan is co-director of the Centre for Social Data Analytics at AUT. She is widely published in the research areas of health and development economics and applied… Audio
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NZ's weak productivity in OECD's sights
NZ's weak productivity in OECD's sights
New Zealanders generally enjoy high living standards, but the country's labour productivity continues to be a weakness, the organisation's latest report says.
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Pacific schools to take part in robotics challenge
Pacific schools to take part in robotics challenge
Six schools in Oceania will take part in an international robotics challenge which organisers hope could become an annual event.
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Nights' Pundit - Maths
Making the numbers add up is Dr. Dillon Mayhew from Victoria University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Operations Research. Audio
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Why mathematics is at the heart of life
Simple mathematical laws govern not just biology, but even human constructs such as commerce and cities – and if you feel like time is speeding up, you're correct says physicist Geoffrey West. Audio
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Marshalls tertiary education in new partnership with USP
Marshalls tertiary education in new partnership with USP
Tertiary education in the Marshall Islands could be strengthened by a new partnership between the University of the South Pacific and the College of Marshall Islands.
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Sport: Vanuatu beaten by Germany at FIFA Under 20
Sport: Vanuatu beaten by Germany at FIFA Under 20
Vanuatu has been beaten by Germany 3-2 at the FIFA Under 20 World Cup in Korea.
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John Mitchell to help the Bulls
John Mitchell to help the Bulls
Struggling South African Super Rugby side the Bulls have named New Zealander John Mitchell as their Executive of Rugby.
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Modernised Tokelau schools seeing results
An education expert from New Zealand says Tokelau children's English, Tokelauan and maths are improving after a change in teaching style on the atolls. Audio
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Computing the truth
Professor Greenberg, from Victoria's School of Mathematics and Statistics, is a world-leading researcher in the area of mathematical logic - the part of mathematics that regards language as an object… Audio
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Nights' Overseas - Japan
Palmerston North raised journalist Motoko Kakubayashi now resides in Tokyo and works for University of Tokyo's Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, pop. 126,434,964 (est… Audio
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Neal Stephenson - Postcyberpunk author and futurist
Neal Stephenson is an American writer, known for his fiction works, which have been variously categorized science fiction, historical fiction, cyberpunk, and postcyberpunk. Stephenson explores areas… Audio
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Spurs' title hopes suffer Hammer blow
Spurs' title hopes suffer Hammer blow
Tottenham Hotspur's Premier League title hopes suffered a crushing blow as their nine-match winning run ended in a 1-0 defeat to West Ham at the London Stadium.
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ANDREW PERKINS: The Radish and the Shoe (French)
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Luc Arnault (narrator), Hamish McKeich (conductor). Recorded by RNZ Concert for the 2014 NZ Composer Sessions. Audio
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