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Fact-Checker, Check Thyself

Fact-Checker, Check Thyself

Ramesh Thakur Ramesh Thakur, a Brownstone Institute Senior Scholar, is a former United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, and emeritus professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. brownstone.org In two articles on this site on November 13 and March 18, Andrew Lowenthal explained the intimate

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How the Baltimore Key Bridge Was Brought Down In Seconds

Dr Mohamed Shaheen Lecturer in Structural Engineering, Loughborough University The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on 26 March was a shocking and tragic event. Six people remain unaccounted for in the disaster, which saw the world’s third largest continuous truss bridge fall into the Patapsco

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What Happened, and What Needs To Change

Colin Caprani Associate Professor, Civil Engineering, Monash University When the container ship MV Dali, 300 metres long and massing around 100,000 tonnes, lost power and slammed into one of the support piers of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the bridge collapsed in moments. Six people are presumed

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

The University of Auckland in New Zealand was founded in 1883 as Auckland University College, initially serving as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. Its humble beginnings were in a disused courthouse and jail, where it started with 95 students and 4 teaching staff. Regretfully amongst these

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Auckland University Removes ‘Segregation’ Sign

Auckland University Removes ‘Segregation’ Sign

Chris Lynch chrislynchmedia.com Chris Lynch is a journalist, videographer and content producer, broadcasting from his independent news and production company in Christchurch, New Zealand. If you have a news tip or are interested in video content, email chris@chrislynchmedia.com Auckland University has removed a signboard that had designated

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Two Views on Drag Queens in Libraries

Two Views on Drag Queens in Libraries

Tani Newton A confused scene developed outside the HB Williams Memorial Library in Gisborne on Tuesday afternoon as protesters and counter-protesters argued over the propriety of the library’s hosting drag queens to speak to young people. Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki had undertaken to stop the series of

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