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Year: 2021

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Do naturally high testosterone levels equal stronger female athletic performance? Not necessarily

May 14, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Severine Lamon, Associate professor, Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, Deakin University Over the past few years, controversy has surrounded the World Athletics ruling that female hyperandrogenic athletes — female athletes with naturally high levels of testosterone — are banned from competing in certain track events. The controversy is ... <a title="Do naturally high testosterone levels equal stronger female athletic performance? Not necessarily" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/14/do-naturally-high-testosterone-levels-equal-stronger-female-athletic-performance-not-necessarily-160009/" aria-label="Read more about Do naturally high testosterone levels equal stronger female athletic performance? Not necessarily">Read more</a>

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How climate change is erasing the world’s oldest rock art

May 14, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jillian Huntley, Research Fellow, Griffith University In caves on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, ancient peoples marked the walls with red and mulberry hand stencils, and painted images of large native mammals or imaginary human-animal creatures. These are the oldest cave art sites yet known — or ... <a title="How climate change is erasing the world’s oldest rock art" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/14/how-climate-change-is-erasing-the-worlds-oldest-rock-art-159929/" aria-label="Read more about How climate change is erasing the world’s oldest rock art">Read more</a>

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Friday essay: searching for sanity in a world hell-bent on destruction

May 14, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, The University of Melbourne According to The Parable of the Poisoned Well, there once lived a king who ruled over a great city. He was loved for his wisdom and feared for his power. At the heart of the ... <a title="Friday essay: searching for sanity in a world hell-bent on destruction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/14/friday-essay-searching-for-sanity-in-a-world-hell-bent-on-destruction-160447/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: searching for sanity in a world hell-bent on destruction">Read more</a>

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Grattan on Friday: Is that the Coalition debt truck parked just past the election?

May 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It was a small thing but a revealing moment during Scott Morrison’s Wednesday interview on Nine’s Today show. Presenter Karl Stefanovic noticed Morrison seemed out of sorts, despite the government having delivered the night before a benign budget that was ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Is that the Coalition debt truck parked just past the election?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/grattan-on-friday-is-that-the-coalition-debt-truck-parked-just-past-the-election-160877/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Is that the Coalition debt truck parked just past the election?">Read more</a>

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‘Frontline workers’ among those to get priority in Albanese’s housing program

May 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A promise to set up a $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund to build social and affordable housing was the centrepiece of Anthony Albanese’s Thursday night budget reply. In the program’s first five years, the investment returns would build about ... <a title="‘Frontline workers’ among those to get priority in Albanese’s housing program" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/frontline-workers-among-those-to-get-priority-in-albaneses-housing-program-160882/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Frontline workers’ among those to get priority in Albanese’s housing program">Read more</a>

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What is mucormycosis, the fungal infection affecting COVID patients in India?

May 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monica Slavin, Head, Department Infectious Diseases, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre This week we’ve seen reports of an infection called mucormycosis, often termed “black fungus”, in patients with COVID, or who are recovering from COVID, in India. Fungal infections can be devastating. And in ... <a title="What is mucormycosis, the fungal infection affecting COVID patients in India?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/what-is-mucormycosis-the-fungal-infection-affecting-covid-patients-in-india-160707/" aria-label="Read more about What is mucormycosis, the fungal infection affecting COVID patients in India?">Read more</a>

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Too late, already bolted: how a faster WHO response could have slowed COVID-19’s spread

May 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute Urgent global action is needed to end the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future threats, according to a new report by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. The panel, co-chaired by former New Zealand prime minister Helen ... <a title="Too late, already bolted: how a faster WHO response could have slowed COVID-19’s spread" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/too-late-already-bolted-how-a-faster-who-response-could-have-slowed-covid-19s-spread-160860/" aria-label="Read more about Too late, already bolted: how a faster WHO response could have slowed COVID-19’s spread">Read more</a>

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With billions more allocated to immigration detention, another bleak year for refugees

May 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Higgins, Senior Research Fellow, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Refugees and asylum seekers will take little comfort from the 2021–22 budget. Resettlement places remain capped, while spending on offshore processing, immigration detention and deterrence measures remains high. For those still held offshore in Papua ... <a title="With billions more allocated to immigration detention, another bleak year for refugees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/with-billions-more-allocated-to-immigration-detention-another-bleak-year-for-refugees-160783/" aria-label="Read more about With billions more allocated to immigration detention, another bleak year for refugees">Read more</a>

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Big-spending ‘recovery budget’ leaves universities out in the cold

May 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Larkins, Professor Emeritus and Former Deputy Vice Chancellor, The University of Melbourne The 2021 federal budget has largely ignored the plight of Australian universities. The forward estimates even point to an overall decline, once adjusted for inflation, in Commonwealth direct funding for higher education through to ... <a title="Big-spending ‘recovery budget’ leaves universities out in the cold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/big-spending-recovery-budget-leaves-universities-out-in-the-cold-160439/" aria-label="Read more about Big-spending ‘recovery budget’ leaves universities out in the cold">Read more</a>

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The 2021-22 budget has added salt to universities’ COVID wounds

May 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University The federal government’s budget announcements this week included nothing new for universities — an industry hit particularly hard by the pandemic border closures and loss of international students. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg on Tuesday night ... <a title="The 2021-22 budget has added salt to universities’ COVID wounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/the-2021-22-budget-has-added-salt-to-universities-covid-wounds-160862/" aria-label="Read more about The 2021-22 budget has added salt to universities’ COVID wounds">Read more</a>

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What is the Moderna COVID vaccine? Does it work, and is it safe?

May 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Taylor, Early Career Research Leader, Emerging Viruses, Inflammation and Therapeutics Group, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University Overnight, Boston-based pharmaceutical company Moderna announced a new supply agreement with Australia for 25 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine. The deal includes ten million doses against the original ... <a title="What is the Moderna COVID vaccine? Does it work, and is it safe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/what-is-the-moderna-covid-vaccine-does-it-work-and-is-it-safe-160859/" aria-label="Read more about What is the Moderna COVID vaccine? Does it work, and is it safe?">Read more</a>

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What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and how does it actually work?

May 13, 2021

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Fitzgerald, Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University A line in this week’s federal budget allocating A$288.5 million to repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) therapy might pass most people by. This is a brain stimulation technique that’s been used to treat conditions such as depression for almost ten ... <a title="What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and how does it actually work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/what-is-repetitive-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation-and-how-does-it-actually-work-160771/" aria-label="Read more about What is repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and how does it actually work?">Read more</a>