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Bring out the robots Given, the extremely contagious nature of COVID-19, it is very hard to directly attend to patients and potential cases without protective clothing. With this in mind, researchers at the Tsinghua University in China claim to have created a robot that can aid doctors in such scenarios.

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Where do you think this photo was taken? Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your window. We particularly need challenging views that contain enough clues for the once a week prize-winning VFYW. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@thebfd.co.nz Yesterday’s

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Where do you think this photo was taken? Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your window. We particularly need challenging views that contain enough clues for the once a week prize-winning VFYW. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@thebfd.co.nz Yesterday’s

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The Conversion Therapy Progressives Won’t Talk About

The Conversion Therapy Progressives Won’t Talk About

“Conversion therapy” is one of the favourite bugbears of the “rainbow” lobby. Not entirely without justification – forcing plainly homosexual people, youngsters especially, to live in denial can be enormously psychologically damaging. Even more so, if the denial is reinforced with threats of eternal damnation. But, with their characteristic tolerance and

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A Country in Lockdown

A Country in Lockdown

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com First published 22nd March 2020 The global COVID-19 crisis is deepening. Within 12 weeks of the new coronavirus being detected in workers at a live animal market in China, 100,000 people around the world had caught the disease. Twelve days later that had risen

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The Media Brats Have Gone Blessedly Quiet

The Media Brats Have Gone Blessedly Quiet

In all the noise and alarm over the Chinese Virus it’s easy to miss that one notable din has gone suddenly quiet. Anyone heard from the Krazy Klimate Kult lately? While we’re all locking ourselves indoors, we might have missed that there’s a sudden dearth of blue-haired

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Where do you think this photo was taken? Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your window. We particularly need challenging views that contain enough clues for the once a week prize-winning VFYW. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@thebfd.co.nz Yesterday’s

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Where do you think this photo was taken? Editor Note: The BFD needs more views from your window. We particularly need challenging views that contain enough clues for the once a week prize-winning VFYW. Please put View From My Window in the subject line. window@thebfd.co.nz Yesterday’s

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We Are All Ruled by Beijing Now

We Are All Ruled by Beijing Now

On Friday, ACT’s Stephen Berry wondered if the New Zealand government’s spending splurge will create “the most popular economic depression in history”. Berry echoed what has become mainstream economic argument: rather than “ending the Depression”, Roosevelt’s New Deal extended and deepened it. Berry also pointed to one

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Panic Buying: Blame Lack of Connection Not Individualism

Panic Buying: Blame Lack of Connection Not Individualism

British author Oliver Murphy talks about stockpiling and the reasons behind panic buying. It was last week when Isabel had come out of major surgery to remove a brain tumour. Now convalescing at home, Isabel (not her real name) is only able to take paracetamol to manage what she describes

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Where do you think this photo was taken? This photo is a little different to our usual VFYWs as the readers who sent it to us want your help. This is different – I have NO idea where it is. Can we ask the readers? Up Northland somewhere.A scan of

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