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November 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pep Canadell, Chief research scientist, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; and Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Nitrous oxide (N₂O) (more commonly known as laughing gas) is a powerful contributor to global warming. It is 265 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide ... <a title="Nitrogen fertilisers are incredibly efficient, but they make climate change a lot worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/19/nitrogen-fertilisers-are-incredibly-efficient-but-they-make-climate-change-a-lot-worse-127103/" aria-label="Read more about Nitrogen fertilisers are incredibly efficient, but they make climate change a lot worse">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hilary Hollingsworth, Principal Research Fellow, Australian Council for Educational Research Australian teachers are in the thick of producing end-of-year reports. In many schools, the report writing process begins several weeks – or even months – before reports are eventually released. This process has significant costs, including time ... <a title="Report cards’ report card: showing potential, but with room for improvement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/19/report-cards-report-card-showing-potential-but-with-room-for-improvement-126925/" aria-label="Read more about Report cards’ report card: showing potential, but with room for improvement">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yixia (Sarah) Zhang, Associate Professor of Engineering, Western Sydney University Concrete is the most widely used man-made material, commonly used in buildings, roads, bridges and industrial plants. But producing the Portland cement needed to make concrete accounts for 5-8% of all global greenhouse emissions. There is a ... <a title="Green cement a step closer to being a game-changer for construction emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/19/green-cement-a-step-closer-to-being-a-game-changer-for-construction-emissions-126033/" aria-label="Read more about Green cement a step closer to being a game-changer for construction emissions">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. (attributed to Danish physicist Niels Bohr) The difficulty of making predictions has long been known, but the rise of the internet means that it is getting harder ... <a title="Please, no more projections. What we need are predictions, and they’re harder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/19/please-no-more-projections-what-we-need-are-predictions-and-theyre-harder-126734/" aria-label="Read more about Please, no more projections. What we need are predictions, and they’re harder">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Smith, Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University The Stuart Highway in the Northern Territory is dotted with around 300 termite mounds, dressed as people. They are reminiscent of giant, ochre coloured “snowmen” in their distinctly human forms of decoration. These ... <a title="What the termite mound ‘snowmen’ of the NT can tell us about human nature" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/19/what-the-termite-mound-snowmen-of-the-nt-can-tell-us-about-human-nature-122038/" aria-label="Read more about What the termite mound ‘snowmen’ of the NT can tell us about human nature">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Clarke, Associate Professor, National Security College, Australian National University This past weekend, The New York Times’ China correspondents, Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy, published an expose of over 400 internal Chinese government documents relating to Beijing’s mass detentions of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in ... <a title="Leaked documents on Uighur detention camps in China – an expert explains the key revelations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/18/leaked-documents-on-uighur-detention-camps-in-china-an-expert-explains-the-key-revelations-127221/" aria-label="Read more about Leaked documents on Uighur detention camps in China – an expert explains the key revelations">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Clarke, Associate Professor, National Security College, Australian National University This past weekend, The New York Times’ China correspondents, Chris Buckley and Austin Ramzy, published an expose of over 400 internal Chinese government documents relating to Beijing’s mass detentions of Uighurs, Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities in ... <a title="Leaked documents on China detention camps – a Uighur expert explains the key revelations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/18/leaked-documents-on-china-detention-camps-a-uighur-expert-explains-the-key-revelations-127221/" aria-label="Read more about Leaked documents on China detention camps – a Uighur expert explains the key revelations">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janet Stanley, Associate professor/Principal Research Fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne It’s hard to comprehend why someone would deliberately light a bushfire. Yet this behaviour regularly occurs in Australia and other countries. We would go a long way to preventing bushfires if we better understood ... <a title="Humans light 85% of bushfires, and we do virtually nothing to stop it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/18/humans-light-85-of-bushfires-and-we-do-virtually-nothing-to-stop-it-126941/" aria-label="Read more about Humans light 85% of bushfires, and we do virtually nothing to stop it">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Former prime minister Paul Keating has launched a scathing attack on the Australian media for its coverage of China, denouncing “the nominally pious belchings of ‘do-gooder’ journalists” who live on leaks from security agencies. Keating told Australian newspaper’s strategic forum ... <a title="Paul Keating attacks media for ‘pious belchings’ over China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/18/paul-keating-attacks-media-for-pious-belchings-over-china-127222/" aria-label="Read more about Paul Keating attacks media for ‘pious belchings’ over China">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University A parasite is an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species. Three main classes of parasites can cause disease in humans: protozoa, helminths, and ectoparasites. Protozoa and helminths largely affect the gut, ... <a title="What are parasites and how do they make us sick?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/18/what-are-parasites-and-how-do-they-make-us-sick-121489/" aria-label="Read more about What are parasites and how do they make us sick?">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Lilburn, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne You’re driving down an unfamiliar street on a clear spring evening. You’ve been invited to a friend of a friend’s party, at a house you’ve never been to before. Tracking the street numbers, you see you’re getting close, so ... <a title="Turn down for what? Why you turn down the radio when you’re trying to park your car" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/18/turn-down-for-what-why-you-turn-down-the-radio-when-youre-trying-to-park-your-car-126263/" aria-label="Read more about Turn down for what? Why you turn down the radio when you’re trying to park your car">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick Stokes, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University “To be dead,” wrote the 20th century French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, “is to be a prey for the living.” Even Sartre, though, would have struggled to imagine casting James Dean in a movie 64 years after the actor’s death. ... <a title="Chat bots, James Dean … can the digital dead rest in peace?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/18/chat-bots-james-dean-can-the-digital-dead-rest-in-peace-127211/" aria-label="Read more about Chat bots, James Dean … can the digital dead rest in peace?">Read more</a>
