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December 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Carter, Senior Research Fellow, Monash University This year, a Chinese patient known only as Mr Yan became a medical pioneer. He agreed to have electrodes surgically inserted into his brain, allowing his surgeon, by touching the screen of a simple tablet computer, to change the emotions ... <a title="Stimulus package: brain stimulation holds huge promise, but is critically under-regulated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/stimulus-package-brain-stimulation-holds-huge-promise-but-is-critically-under-regulated-127726/" aria-label="Read more about Stimulus package: brain stimulation holds huge promise, but is critically under-regulated">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Derya Iner, Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University The second Islamophobia in Australia Report launched last month, in the same week a graphic video showing a pregnant Muslim woman being punched and stomped on circulated widely on social media. Earlier in October another video went viral, showing two ... <a title="Islamophobic attacks mostly happen in public. Here’s what you can do if you see it or experience it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/islamophobic-attacks-mostly-happen-in-public-heres-what-you-can-do-if-you-see-it-or-experience-it-127807/" aria-label="Read more about Islamophobic attacks mostly happen in public. Here’s what you can do if you see it or experience it">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University It’s happened to many of us at some point in our lives: we finish our bowel movement, look down in the bowl and have a moment of panic when we see an unusual colour. Poo can ... <a title="Why is my poo green?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/why-is-my-poo-green-120975/" aria-label="Read more about Why is my poo green?">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hales, Director Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith University Almost 200 world leaders gather in Madrid this week for climate talks which will largely determine the success of the Paris agreement, and by extension, the extent to which the planet will suffer under climate change. Negotiations at ... <a title="Earth has a couple more chances to avoid catastrophic climate change. This week is one of them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/earth-has-a-couple-more-chances-to-avoid-catastrophic-climate-change-this-week-is-one-of-them-128120/" aria-label="Read more about Earth has a couple more chances to avoid catastrophic climate change. This week is one of them">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Alterator, Research Fellow (Learning Environments Applied Research Network); Director at Innovation Design Education;, University of Melbourne Australia has scheduled up to A$11 billion on new schools and facility upgrades between 2016 and 2026. We need as many as 750 new schools to accommodate an additional 650,000 ... <a title="Students with disabilities need inclusive buildings. We can learn from what’s already working" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/students-with-disabilities-need-inclusive-buildings-we-can-learn-from-whats-already-working-126755/" aria-label="Read more about Students with disabilities need inclusive buildings. We can learn from what’s already working">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Crystal Legacy, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Melbourne The privatisation of services in Australian cities has weakened public control of key infrastructure. This is likely to accelerate as governments look to market-led proposals to provide infrastructure. For nearly three decades, the rationale for privatisation has ... <a title="Market-led infrastructure may sound good but not if it short-changes the public" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/market-led-infrastructure-may-sound-good-but-not-if-it-short-changes-the-public-127603/" aria-label="Read more about Market-led infrastructure may sound good but not if it short-changes the public">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ronald F Pol, Senior researcher NZ – views expressed are author’s and do not necessarily reflect those of, La Trobe University The charges surrounding Westpac’s alleged 23 million breaches of anti-money laundering laws have been called “about as serious as it gets”. They include, in the words ... <a title="Westpac ticking every anti-money-laundering box wouldn’t make much difference to criminals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/westpac-ticking-every-anti-money-laundering-box-wouldnt-make-much-difference-to-criminals-127988/" aria-label="Read more about Westpac ticking every anti-money-laundering box wouldn’t make much difference to criminals">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University Review: Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines, National Gallery of Victoria In the 1980s, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring were the bad boys of the New York art scene who meteorically rose from street art notoriety ... <a title="‘Nothing quite prepares you for the impact of this exhibition’: Haring Basquiat at the NGV" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/nothing-quite-prepares-you-for-the-impact-of-this-exhibition-haring-basquiat-at-the-ngv-128100/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Nothing quite prepares you for the impact of this exhibition’: Haring Basquiat at the NGV">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Can prison rehabilitation programs work, and is it sensible to try and rehabilitate seriously radicalised individuals convicted on terrorism charges? These are questions not just for Great Britain, in the wake ... <a title="Lessons on terrorism and rehabilitation from the London Bridge attack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/02/lessons-on-terrorism-and-rehabilitation-from-the-london-bridge-attack-128108/" aria-label="Read more about Lessons on terrorism and rehabilitation from the London Bridge attack">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mina Bakhit, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bond University The antibiotic resistance threat is real. In the years to come, we will no longer be able to treat and cure many infections we once could. We’ve had no new classes of antibiotics in decades, and the development pipeline is ... <a title="We can reverse antibiotic resistance in Australia. Here’s how Sweden is doing it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/02/we-can-reverse-antibiotic-resistance-in-australia-heres-how-sweden-is-doing-it-123081/" aria-label="Read more about We can reverse antibiotic resistance in Australia. Here’s how Sweden is doing it">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roslyn Petelin, Course coordinator, The University of Queensland How many of these words, shortlisted by The Macquarie Dictionary in its search for the 2019 Word of the Year, have you used? Anecdata, big minutes, cancel culture, cheese slaw, cleanskin, drought lot, eco-anxiety, flight shaming, healthwashing, hedonometer, mukbang, ... <a title="Cancel culture, cleanskin, hedonometer … I’m not sure I like any of Macquarie Dictionary’s words of the year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/02/cancel-culture-cleanskin-hedonometer-im-not-sure-i-like-any-of-macquarie-dictionarys-words-of-the-year-128109/" aria-label="Read more about Cancel culture, cleanskin, hedonometer … I’m not sure I like any of Macquarie Dictionary’s words of the year">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Collard, Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies, and Professor of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University The remains of thousands of Aboriginal Australians are scattered around the world in museums and universities. Many institutions accept these remains should be returned to descendant communities, but it’s not always ... <a title="Returning to country: we should use genetics, geology and more to repatriate Aboriginal remains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/02/returning-to-country-we-should-use-genetics-geology-and-more-to-repatriate-aboriginal-remains-125557/" aria-label="Read more about Returning to country: we should use genetics, geology and more to repatriate Aboriginal remains">Read more</a>
