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December 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joseph M. Cheer, Professor in Sustainable Tourism, Wakayama University The COVID-19 pandemic brought the global tourism industry to a screeching halt in 2020. With vaccines starting to be rolled out, there is hope international travel can resume soon, but exactly when — and how — is the ... <a title="Vaccines may soon make travel possible again. But how quickly will it return — and will it be forever changed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/29/vaccines-may-soon-make-travel-possible-again-but-how-quickly-will-it-return-and-will-it-be-forever-changed-150268/" aria-label="Read more about Vaccines may soon make travel possible again. But how quickly will it return — and will it be forever changed?">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney It’s the holidays and we’re spending more time outdoors. This means we’re exposed to the more annoying and painful aspects of summer — insect bites and stings. There are plenty of products at the local ... <a title="Bzzz, slap! How to treat insect bites (home remedies included)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/29/bzzz-slap-how-to-treat-insect-bites-home-remedies-included-148722/" aria-label="Read more about Bzzz, slap! How to treat insect bites (home remedies included)">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Clements, Botanist, CSIRO If you ask someone to imagine an orchid, chances are pots of moth orchids lined up for sale in a hardware store will spring to mind, with their thick shiny leaves and vibrant petals. Orchids like this may be what comes to mind ... <a title="‘Like finding life on Mars’: why the underground orchid is Australia’s strangest, most mysterious flower" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/29/like-finding-life-on-mars-why-the-underground-orchid-is-australias-strangest-most-mysterious-flower-144727/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Like finding life on Mars’: why the underground orchid is Australia’s strangest, most mysterious flower">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Gildersleeve, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland Summer is the time for holidays and travel. But as we weakly wave goodbye (we hope) to the horrors of 2020, international travel is off the table and even domestic travel is still restricted. A book ... <a title="Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/29/hit-the-road-jack-5-epic-literary-road-trips-that-are-not-by-kerouac-150159/" aria-label="Read more about Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2020
By Harlyne Joku in Port Moresby A huge landslide has buried a long hut with 13 people asleep inside at the foot of the Tolukuma gold mine in Papua New Guinea’s Central province. The community from Saki village, Tolukuma, experienced the massive landslide yesterday morning between 4.30 am and 6 am amid heavy rain. They ... <a title="Landslide claims 13 lives at Tolukuma mine in PNG’s Central province" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/29/landslide-claims-13-lives-at-tolukuma-mine-in-pngs-central-province/" aria-label="Read more about Landslide claims 13 lives at Tolukuma mine in PNG’s Central province">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University The news on the Sydney northern beaches COVID-19 outbreak is encouraging, with just five locally acquired new cases announced today from more than 15,000 tests in the last 24 hours. All five locally acquired cases were contacts of known cases ... <a title="Should you go to a Sydney New Year’s Eve party? NSW has handled COVID outbreak well but risks remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/should-you-go-to-a-sydney-new-years-eve-party-nsw-has-handled-covid-outbreak-well-but-risks-remain-152552/" aria-label="Read more about Should you go to a Sydney New Year’s Eve party? NSW has handled COVID outbreak well but risks remain">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wallace, Associate Professor, 50/50 By 2030 Foundation, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra It has been both a remarkably good and remarkably bad year for Australian women. Their leadership in Australian politics and public life has been more prominent and successful than ever ... <a title="Victory, history and a pink recession: the highs and lows for women in 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/victory-history-and-a-pink-recession-the-highs-and-lows-for-women-in-2020-150064/" aria-label="Read more about Victory, history and a pink recession: the highs and lows for women in 2020">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato A year ago, who could have even imagined 2020 would turn out the way it did? A pandemic, closed borders, lockdowns, economic crisis, a delayed election … but here we are at the end of a year like no ... <a title="New Zealand’s 2020 report card: doing well but could try harder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/new-zealands-2020-report-card-doing-well-but-could-try-harder-149982/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s 2020 report card: doing well but could try harder">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Caprar, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Finally, the holidays are here — the break you’ve been waiting for. You want to leave work behind, kick back and enjoy time with family and friends. But you’re still checking work emails and taking work calls. Even if you ... <a title="Here’s why you’re checking work emails on holidays (and how to stop)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/heres-why-youre-checking-work-emails-on-holidays-and-how-to-stop-148720/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s why you’re checking work emails on holidays (and how to stop)">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodi Rowley, Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field. Frog calls are iconic sounds of summer in Australia. There ... <a title="Clicks, bonks and dripping taps: listen to the calls of 6 frogs out and about this summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/clicks-bonks-and-dripping-taps-listen-to-the-calls-of-6-frogs-out-and-about-this-summer-150084/" aria-label="Read more about Clicks, bonks and dripping taps: listen to the calls of 6 frogs out and about this summer">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Ward, Fellow in Historical Studies, University of Melbourne In mid November, South Dakota emergency room nurse Jodi Doering tweeted her experience of caring for dying patients. Many, she said, were denying the existence of COVID-19 until their final breaths. Their last dying words are “this can’t ... <a title="The less equal we become, the less we trust science, and that’s a problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/the-less-equal-we-become-the-less-we-trust-science-and-thats-a-problem-151691/" aria-label="Read more about The less equal we become, the less we trust science, and that’s a problem">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UNSW A few years ago I had the pleasure of listening to the highly-influential legal scholar Cass Sunstein speak in the flesh. Cass wrote the best-selling book Nudge, along with his long-time collaborator Richard Thaler. Thaler subsequently won the Nobel Prize ... <a title="Humans learn from mistakes — so why do we hide our failures?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/humans-learn-from-mistakes-so-why-do-we-hide-our-failures-132252/" aria-label="Read more about Humans learn from mistakes — so why do we hide our failures?">Read more</a>
