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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jill P Brown, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education, Deakin University Shutterstock This article is part of a series providing school students with evidence-based advice for choosing subjects in their senior years. Maths prepares students for the ultimate test — life beyond school. As maths is everywhere, regardless ... <a title="Which maths subject should I take in years 11 and 12? Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/which-maths-subject-should-i-take-in-years-11-and-12-heres-what-you-need-to-know-163496/" aria-label="Read more about Which maths subject should I take in years 11 and 12? Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Onchira Wongsiri/Shutterstock Australia’s official policy on vaccines is that they be voluntary and free. But the federal government hasn’t shut the door completely on employers pursuing mandatory policies of their own. Last week the federal government reiterated ... <a title="Can Australian employers make you get a COVID-19 vaccine? Mostly not — but here’s when they can" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/can-australian-employers-make-you-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-mostly-not-but-heres-when-they-can-165755/" aria-label="Read more about Can Australian employers make you get a COVID-19 vaccine? Mostly not — but here’s when they can">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Scott, Associate Professor (Research) and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Deakin University Shutterstock If you’re among the millions in lockdown, ask yourself: when was the last time you did some strength training? Many of us are regularly going for walks or runs during lockdown but, with gyms ... <a title="Use it or rapidly lose it: how to keep up strength training in lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/use-it-or-rapidly-lose-it-how-to-keep-up-strength-training-in-lockdown-165810/" aria-label="Read more about Use it or rapidly lose it: how to keep up strength training in lockdown">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Circelli, Senior Research Officer, National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) Shutterstock This article is part of a series providing school students with evidence-based advice for choosing subjects in their senior years. Vocational education and training, or VET, is where you learn skills for employment. Think ... <a title="Doing a VET subject in years 11 and 12 can help with a job and uni. Here’s what you need to know about VET in the senior years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/doing-a-vet-subject-in-years-11-and-12-can-help-with-a-job-and-uni-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-vet-in-the-senior-years-165798/" aria-label="Read more about Doing a VET subject in years 11 and 12 can help with a job and uni. Here’s what you need to know about VET in the senior years">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tadgh McMahon, Adjunct Lecturer, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University With COVID numbers surging in Sydney’s multicultural western suburbs, NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard speculated that migrant and refugee communities in the region “haven’t built up trust in government”, which might make them reluctant to ... <a title="Brad Hazzard is wrong about multicultural western Sydney: new research shows refugees do trust institutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/brad-hazzard-is-wrong-about-multicultural-western-sydney-new-research-shows-refugees-do-trust-institutions-165673/" aria-label="Read more about Brad Hazzard is wrong about multicultural western Sydney: new research shows refugees do trust institutions">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alessandro Palci, Research Associate in Evolutionary Biology, Flinders University Tontan Travel, Author provided Venomous snakes inject a cocktail of toxins using venom fangs — specialised teeth with grooves or canals running through them to guide the venom into a bite wound. Uniquely among animals, grooved and tubular ... <a title="How venomous snakes got their fangs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/how-venomous-snakes-got-their-fangs-165881/" aria-label="Read more about How venomous snakes got their fangs">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Energy Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Power cuts: what went wrong and is it over? Audrey Young (Herald): Close to Jacinda Ardern’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 11 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-11-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 11 2021">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trevor Kilpatrick, Professor, Neurologist and Clinical Director, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health Shutterstock Scientists are becoming more and more concerned with the emergence of a syndrome termed “long COVID”, where a significant percentage of sufferers of COVID-19 experience long-lasting symptoms. Studies suggest symptoms remain for ... <a title="How does COVID affect the brain? Two neuroscientists explain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/how-does-covid-affect-the-brain-two-neuroscientists-explain-164857/" aria-label="Read more about How does COVID affect the brain? Two neuroscientists explain">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Harvey, Curator of Arachnology at the Western Australian Museum, Adjunct Professor, The University of Western Australia A female _Euoplos variabilis_ from Mount Tamborine Jeremy Wilson After a century of scientific confusion, we can now officially add five new species to Australia’s long list of trapdoor spiders ... <a title="Here are 5 new species of Australian trapdoor spider. It took scientists a century to tell them apart" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/here-are-5-new-species-of-australian-trapdoor-spider-it-took-scientists-a-century-to-tell-them-apart-165327/" aria-label="Read more about Here are 5 new species of Australian trapdoor spider. It took scientists a century to tell them apart">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Healey, PhD Student, School of Education, Curtin University Shutterstock Fiction authors are pretty good at writing sentences with striking images, worded just the right way. We might suppose the images are striking because the author has a striking imagination. But the words seem just right because ... <a title="5 ways to teach the link between grammar and imagination for better creative writing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/5-ways-to-teach-the-link-between-grammar-and-imagination-for-better-creative-writing-165310/" aria-label="Read more about 5 ways to teach the link between grammar and imagination for better creative writing">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University GLENN HUNT/AAP Casino operator Crown Resorts must be desperate or think we’re dumb. Last week, before the royal commission into its right to hold a casino licence in Victoria, Crown resorted to one of the ... <a title="Casino operator Crown plays an old business trick: using workers as human shields" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/casino-operator-crown-plays-an-old-business-trick-using-workers-as-human-shields-165815/" aria-label="Read more about Casino operator Crown plays an old business trick: using workers as human shields">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Sandford, PhD Candidate, Flinders University Julia Wertz’ The Infinite Wait and Other Stories looks at the author’s diagnosis with lupus. © Julia Wertz Images have acted as crucial diagnostic tools since the late 20th century. Sophisticated technologies, such as X-Rays and MRIs, offer doctors a precise ... <a title="‘Graphic medicine’: how autobiographical comics artists are changing our understanding of illness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/11/graphic-medicine-how-autobiographical-comics-artists-are-changing-our-understanding-of-illness-164789/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Graphic medicine’: how autobiographical comics artists are changing our understanding of illness">Read more</a>
