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Boeing 737max

Air NZ’s big call: The plane with the inside running

Air New Zealand is poised to announce new-model Boeing Dreamliners as its next tranche of widebody planes in one of its most important fleet decisions in the past 15 years. The airline will early next week officially unveil the replacement for its eight 777-2…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Panda

Traveller24.com | PICS: Can you solve these mind-boggling mazes across the UK?

With all the distractions and digital dazzle of 21st century life, you’d think the humble puzzle would have lost its appeal. But mazes, riddles, and brain-teasers are becoming more popular all the time – just look at the viral success of Gergely Dudas’ ‘There…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Singapore

A new role model for growth

Tour highlights the importance of a clear vision and well-communicated long-term infrastructure plans. Each year, New Zealand's peak infrastructure body Infrastructure New Zealand leads a delegation of senior public and private sector leaders overseas to ex…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Riots

Fiction: This Debut Is a Jail Novel, but Funny

RIOTS I HAVE KNOWNBy Ryan Chapman MF, the narrator of Ryan Chapmans debut novel, Riots I Have Known, seems in fact to have known only one, which he relates via his blog from inside the Westbrook prisons Will and Edith Rosenberg Media Center for Journalistic …

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Electric Scooter

Germany’s unu aims for stylish affordability with e-scooter launch

E-mobility firm unu is looking to ride the growth wave of electric scooters which it says rose by 51 percent in 2018, while sales of conventional scooters fell by 40 percent with the upcoming release of its second generation electric scooter, which boasts eno…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Ice sheets are melting far faster than we thought — in a worst-case climate breakdown, coastal cities like New York and Shanghai would be swamped

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are melting. Scientists have known this for years, but they're only now realizing how quickly that melting is happening. Greenland's ice is melting six times faster now than it was four decades ago; the ice sheet i…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Will Franken on Greta Thunberg

Marc Almond on Emma Thompson… “Emma Thompson has arrived in her gas guzzling carbon footprint stomping jet to serve Vegan food from the boat parked on Oxford Circus while the Yoga classes are taking place on Waterloo Bridge! Haha really? Couldnt make this st…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

The Queen

Lady Gabriella Windsor’s official wedding photos look like a fairy tale, and include a family portrait with her cousin, Queen Elizabeth II

On Tuesday, Lady Gabriella Windsor and her new husband Thomas Kingston released three official photos from their May 18 nuptials. The 38-year-old freelance journalist, who is the daughter of Prince Michael of Kent — the queen's first cousin, wed her financ…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Global Warming

Turn Methane into CO 2 to Reduce Warming, Experts Propose

Most plans to tackle climate change revolve around cutting down on carbon dioxide, usually by reducing human emissions. But an unconventional new idea could actually slow the progress of global warming by putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere—while…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Bees

Harvard award funds four high-risk, high-reward projects

This year, with support from Josh Friedman 76, M.B.A. 80, J.D. 82, and Beth Friedman, the challenge expanded to include faculty at both Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and changed its name to the Star-Friedman Challen…

bubmagMay 21, 2019

Air NZ’s big call: The plane with the inside running

Traveller24.com | PICS: Can you solve these mind-boggling mazes across the UK?

A new role model for growth

Fiction: This Debut Is a Jail Novel, but Funny

Germany’s unu aims for stylish affordability with e-scooter launch

Ice sheets are melting far faster than we thought — in a worst-case climate breakdown, coastal cities like New York and Shanghai would be swamped

Will Franken on Greta Thunberg

Lady Gabriella Windsor’s official wedding photos look like a fairy tale, and include a family portrait with her cousin, Queen Elizabeth II

Turn Methane into CO 2 to Reduce Warming, Experts Propose

Harvard award funds four high-risk, high-reward projects

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