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July 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie A Steel, Senior Lecturer in Motor Learning and Skill Acquisition, Western Sydney University matimix/Shutterstock “Look for the gap!” “Move into space!” “Who’s free?” Sound familiar? From the sidelines to the field, court or pitch, no matter the team sport, looking for relevant information in the playing ... <a title="Faster, stronger … smarter? New research shows the importance of brain training for junior athletes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/faster-stronger-smarter-new-research-shows-the-importance-of-brain-training-for-junior-athletes-232981/" aria-label="Read more about Faster, stronger … smarter? New research shows the importance of brain training for junior athletes">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Keogh, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University Pressmaster/Shutterstock The science is clear: resistance training is crucial to ageing well. Lifting weights (or doing bodyweight exercises like lunges, squats or push-ups) can help you live independently for longer, make your bones ... <a title="Want the health benefits of strength training but not keen on the gym? Try ‘exercise snacking’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/want-the-health-benefits-of-strength-training-but-not-keen-on-the-gym-try-exercise-snacking-232374/" aria-label="Read more about Want the health benefits of strength training but not keen on the gym? Try ‘exercise snacking’">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Barrett, Associate Professor in Commercial Law and Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images Where should real political power and authority reside in New Zealand? Since last year’s election, that’s been the central question behind a number of significant policy reversals. Water ... <a title="The government wants to give local bodies more power – that should include the power to tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/the-government-wants-to-give-local-bodies-more-power-that-should-include-the-power-to-tax-234812/" aria-label="Read more about The government wants to give local bodies more power – that should include the power to tax">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian A. Wright, Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University Five eagerly anticipated events in the Paris Olympics will be the mens and womens 10 kilometre marathon swimming races, as well as the 1,500 metre swimming section of three triathlon events. Why? Because all will be ... <a title="For a century, it’s been illegal to swim in the Seine. Will Paris’s clean-up make the river safe for Olympic swimmers?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/for-a-century-its-been-illegal-to-swim-in-the-seine-will-pariss-clean-up-make-the-river-safe-for-olympic-swimmers-231705/" aria-label="Read more about For a century, it’s been illegal to swim in the Seine. Will Paris’s clean-up make the river safe for Olympic swimmers?">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In November 1928, New Zealand had its own ‘Biden moment’ when the 72-year-old Sir Joseph Ward appeared to promise that, if his party won that year’s election, the New Zealand Government would borrow £70 million in 1 year, as a fiscal super-stimulus that would get New Zealand out of the economic ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – New Zealand’s Joe (Biden/Ward) moment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/keith-rankin-essay-new-zealands-joe-biden-ward-moment/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – New Zealand’s Joe (Biden/Ward) moment">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rémi Quirion, Scientifique en chef du Québec et professeur au Département de psychiatrie de l’Université McGill, McGill University States should be more aware of how cities and local governments can help them carry out their diplomatic and scientific strategies. In major global discussions, city-level governments are often ... <a title="Cities around the world share many challenges. To address them, they need to develop science diplomacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/cities-around-the-world-share-many-challenges-to-address-them-they-need-to-develop-science-diplomacy-233509/" aria-label="Read more about Cities around the world share many challenges. To address them, they need to develop science diplomacy">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jade Portingale, PhD Candidate, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne Franz12 / Shutterstock Most of the time, our brains are very good at blending together input from all our senses into a seamless, unified conscious experience of “my body”. When this process of integrating different ... <a title="Virtual reality ‘embodiment illusions’ may help the skewed perceptions behind body image disturbances" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/virtual-reality-embodiment-illusions-may-help-the-skewed-perceptions-behind-body-image-disturbances-230867/" aria-label="Read more about Virtual reality ‘embodiment illusions’ may help the skewed perceptions behind body image disturbances">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Griffin, Professor, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Queensland Marian Weyo/Shutterstock Since May, a number of poultry farms around Australia have faced outbreaks of avian influenza, or bird flu. These outbreaks have been devastating for the poultry farms affected, necessitating large-scale culls, and have caused ... <a title="Bird flu isn’t spreading in humans for now. But there are vaccines in the pipeline if that changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/bird-flu-isnt-spreading-in-humans-for-now-but-there-are-vaccines-in-the-pipeline-if-that-changes-232993/" aria-label="Read more about Bird flu isn’t spreading in humans for now. But there are vaccines in the pipeline if that changes">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Marie Quigley, DECRA Research Fellow in molecular ecology, James Cook University Victor Huertas, Author provided The Great Barrier Reef is world famous – it’s the largest coral reef system in the world and home to tens of thousands of species. No wonder it is World Heritage listed. ... <a title="Beyond the Barrier Reef: Australia’s 3 other World Heritage reefs are also in trouble" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/beyond-the-barrier-reef-australias-3-other-world-heritage-reefs-are-also-in-trouble-234268/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond the Barrier Reef: Australia’s 3 other World Heritage reefs are also in trouble">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Haley Tancredi, Lecturer (Inclusive Education), Queensland University of Technology Pixabay/Pexels , CC BY About four students in every classroom will have a language or attention disorder. While some of these students will have an official diagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), others ... <a title="‘My brain leaves the room’: what happens when teachers talk too much?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/my-brain-leaves-the-room-what-happens-when-teachers-talk-too-much-234685/" aria-label="Read more about ‘My brain leaves the room’: what happens when teachers talk too much?">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Puneet Vatsa, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand The rising price of food has been making headlines for the past decade. But prices have not been rising consistently across all food groups – and this has major health implications for New Zealanders. Last week Stats ... <a title="The cost of eating healthy: NZ fruit and veg prices are going up way faster than processed food" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/the-cost-of-eating-healthy-nz-fruit-and-veg-prices-are-going-up-way-faster-than-processed-food-233971/" aria-label="Read more about The cost of eating healthy: NZ fruit and veg prices are going up way faster than processed food">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2024
By Margot Staunton, RNZ senior journalist and Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor A Kanak political commentator in Aotearoa New Zealand says calls to separate New Caledonia into pro- and anti-independence provinces would worsen racial inequality in the Pacific territory. Unrest continues in the capital Nouméa, with the nephew of New Caledonia Congress pro-independence president shot ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia crisis: Kanak lawyer warns ‘separatism’ will worsen inequalities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/17/kanaky-new-caledonia-crisis-kanak-lawyer-warns-separatism-will-worsen-inequalities/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia crisis: Kanak lawyer warns ‘separatism’ will worsen inequalities">Read more</a>
