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A Life of Courage, Curiosity and Change
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NZ’s low productivity is often blamed on businesses staying small.
What Did You Get for Christmas?
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The Politics of Not Wanting To Know
Jihadist attacks are followed not by sober engagement but by a sequence of shock, condemnation and symbolic reassurance. Leaders urge unity, we’re prompted not to ‘look back in anger‘, candles are lit, teddy bears are hugged and attention is steered firmly away from questions of causation.
Threatening Us All with a Good Time
Luvvies cancel Two Minutes of Hate after ‘intifada’ speaker removed.
The Man Who Lit the Washington Monument Like a Candle
Barrett and his team raced back to the Washington Monument to feed a copy of the 19-minute show, about two terabytes of data, into four servers. “The pivot from shooting furniture to counting myself as being seen by 400 million people, or whatever the most recent numbers are, is mind boggling.”