New Zealand Listener - October 13, 2018

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2 LISTENER OCTOBER 13 2018 CONTENTS ISSN 2381-9553: Vol 265, No. 4088, October 13-19, 2018 GETTY IMAGES COVER IMAGES: GETTY IMAG ...

OCTOBER 13 2018 LISTENER 3 EDITORIAL GETTY IMAGES No wagging this one D ecisions have consequences. If the Government thinks it’ ...

4 LISTENER OCTOBER 13 2018 LETTERS D0CTOR WHO?!Jodie Whittaker takes control of the Tardis AT A GALLOP Stacy Gregg’s Viking hors ...

OCTOBER 13 2018 LISTENER 5 recent research. It is not based on any signs of the humans themselves, but of the pas- senger they b ...

6 LISTENER OCTOBER 13 2018 LETTERS ALEX SCOTT “Brexit! It’s not going very well, is it?” – British understatement from a lone To ...

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8 LISTENER OCTOBER 13 2018 BULLETIN FROM ABROAD Mercifully, Hayne’s first report is free of jargon and hedging. “Why did it happ ...

OCTOBER 13 2018 LISTENER 9 T he “Where were you when ...” questions define each genera- tion. My mother, for example, remembers ...

LISTENER OCTOBER 13 2018 GETTY IMAGES; NEWSPIX By now the Nats must wish they’d never launched this interminable pursuit of thei ...

OCTOBER 13 2018 LISTENER 11 CHRIS SLANE The leader-and-deputy combo, or the PM and finance minister fronting up jointly, can mak ...

DEAR READER Our brain development is being put at risk by the sheer volume of reading we are doing online and on digital devices ...

13 12 LISTENER OCTOBER 13 2018 DEAR READER Our brain development is being put at risk by the sheer volume of reading we are doin ...

14 LISTENER OCTOBER 13 2018 Many of us reading digital media now use an F- or Z-shaped pattern in which we read the first line t ...

OCTOBER 13 2018 LISTENER 15 GETTY IMAGES B ut not as many as we used to. In 2012, Kiwis spent $142 million on books. Since then, ...

16 LISTENER OCTOBER 13 2018 LITERACY THREAT ‘T he only thing that you abso- lutely have to know,” said Albert Einstein, “is the ...

OCTOBER 13 2018 LISTENER 17 once filled the ground floor of the old library, pulled down in 2014 to make way for the city’s unde ...

LISTENER OCTOBER 13 2018 GETTY IMAGES; MICKEY SMITH LITERACY THREAT F ree? Suggestions that a town library should open its doors ...

OCTOBER 13 2018 LISTENER 19 E ndlessly. The number of book groups involved in the Book Discussion Scheme (and there are other ty ...