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Do the young really lack concentration?
Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:23 pm, March 1st, 2015 - 85 comments
Categories: admin, blogs, humour, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, The Standard
Tags: statisticsNow that I can no longer call myself young, the old adage that younger people simply lack concentration does appear to me to be correct. I look to the numbers on The Standard to see if there is a correlation and if I can argue a causation based on age. Are the younger readers without concentration, or are they just busy…
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The Project and Seven Sharp screened their first episodes of the year last night – so how did they fare upon their return? 7pm newcomer Sam Brooks reviews watched them both.I’ve never watched a 7pm show that isn’t Shortland Street. It’s not a ...3 hours ago - Activity in NZ service sector dips
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- Attack blogger ‘Whale Oil’ laid low by serious stroke
Right wing attack blogger Cameron Slater, aka Whale Oil, suffered two strokes in October which have left him partially paralysed on his right side, unable to concentrate and with speech and vision impairments, according to a report today on his ...1 day ago - Attack blogger ‘Whale Oil’ laid low by strokes
Cameron Slater's blog today revealed he suffered two strokes in October which have left him partially paralysed, with speech and vision impairments. ...1 day ago - Labour will lose in 2020 without more progress on housing affordability
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The Rainbow Arcade is an exhibition of LGBTQI* representation is video games currently taking place at the Schwules Museum in Berlin. New Zealander in Berlin Joel Thomas went along.There’s a perpetual greyness to the Berlin winter; everything’s desaturated and everyone’s ...1 day ago - Europe braces for a chaotic Brexit
EU nations are spending millions and issuing emergency decrees to cope with the increasingly likely possibility that Britain will leave the bloc without a plan. ...1 day ago - Flies! Ugh. The plague of summer. Here’s how to kill them without toxins
Wendyl Nissen, in an extract from her new book of household tips, advises natural ways to kill the worst thing about summer – flies.Flies drive me absolutely nuts and, unfortunately, with hens come flies. Up north the flies are especially ...1 day ago - NZ dollar firms on mixed US data
The New Zealand dollar firmed against its US counterpart after data on Friday sent mixed signals on the depth of the economic slowdown there. ...1 day ago
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