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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Jane Elliott, Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney Sabphoto/Shutterstock Barely a month goes by without news of children and adolescents who are imprisoned and being mistreated in youth detention. A new parliamentary inquiry is shining a light on this mistreatment. It’s investigating if ... <a title="We shouldn’t lock up young offenders with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Here are the alternatives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/we-shouldnt-lock-up-young-offenders-with-fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder-here-are-the-alternatives-239318/" aria-label="Read more about We shouldn’t lock up young offenders with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Here are the alternatives">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phoebe Hart, Associate Professor, Film Screen & Animation, Queensland University of Technology Netflix/IMDB There is a lot of talk about the hot onscreen chemistry between actors Kristin Bell and Adam Brody in the hit new Netflix series, Nobody Wants This. Based loosely on series creator Erin Foster’s ... <a title="Everybody wants this – what makes a great TV kiss?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/everybody-wants-this-what-makes-a-great-tv-kiss-240792/" aria-label="Read more about Everybody wants this – what makes a great TV kiss?">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Betsy Donald, Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Queen’s University, Ontario Canadian cities are falling behind globally when it comes to efficiently moving people. Long commute times, high congestion rates and infrastructure that is vulnerable to climate change are symptoms of a mobility crisis. Mobility is an ... <a title="Canadian urban mobility is woefully lacking, but building a better future is still possible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/canadian-urban-mobility-is-woefully-lacking-but-building-a-better-future-is-still-possible-239679/" aria-label="Read more about Canadian urban mobility is woefully lacking, but building a better future is still possible">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ganna Pogrebna, Executive Director, AI and Cyber Futures Institute, Charles Sturt University Olena Yakobchuk/Shutterstock In dusty factories, cramped internet cafes and makeshift home offices around the world, millions of people sit at computers tediously labelling data. These workers are the lifeblood of the burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) ... <a title="AI is a multi-billion dollar industry. It’s underpinned by an invisible and exploited workforce" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/ai-is-a-multi-billion-dollar-industry-its-underpinned-by-an-invisible-and-exploited-workforce-240568/" aria-label="Read more about AI is a multi-billion dollar industry. It’s underpinned by an invisible and exploited workforce">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Iris Lim, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Science, Bond University 9nong/Shutterstock In a recent TikTok video, Australian media personality Abbie Chatfield shared she was starting a vaccine to protect against urinary tract infections (UTIs). Huge news for the UTI girlies. I am starting a UTI vaccine tonight for ... <a title="Oral vaccines could provide relief for people who suffer regular UTIs. Here’s how they work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/oral-vaccines-could-provide-relief-for-people-who-suffer-regular-utis-heres-how-they-work-240437/" aria-label="Read more about Oral vaccines could provide relief for people who suffer regular UTIs. Here’s how they work">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John L. Hopkins, Associate Professor of Management, Swinburne University of Technology Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Less than a month after Amazon announced employees would need to give up their flexible work arrangements and return to the office full-time, new research has reinforced the value of a flexible work culture. The ... <a title="More workers are being forced back to the office – yet a new study shows flexibility is the best way to keep employees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/more-workers-are-being-forced-back-to-the-office-yet-a-new-study-shows-flexibility-is-the-best-way-to-keep-employees-240649/" aria-label="Read more about More workers are being forced back to the office – yet a new study shows flexibility is the best way to keep employees">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Newsome, Associate Professor in Global Ecology, University of Sydney You don’t have to look far to see what climate change is doing to the planet. The word “unprecedented” is everywhere this year. We are seeing unprecedented rapidly intensifying tropical storms such as Hurricane Helene in the ... <a title="Unprecedented peril: disaster lies ahead as we track towards 2.7°C of warming this century" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/unprecedented-peril-disaster-lies-ahead-as-we-track-towards-2-7-c-of-warming-this-century-240549/" aria-label="Read more about Unprecedented peril: disaster lies ahead as we track towards 2.7°C of warming this century">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tashi Dema, PhD Candidate in Language and Politics, University of New England Deki, a 23-year-old resident of the remote town of Armidale, NSW, has been sleepless with excitement since the Bhutanese embassy in Canberra announced an upcoming visit from Bhutan’s fifth monarch, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. ... <a title="Bhutan’s king is set to visit Australia for the first time. Here’s why thousands will line the streets to see him" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/bhutans-king-is-set-to-visit-australia-for-the-first-time-heres-why-thousands-will-line-the-streets-to-see-him-239932/" aria-label="Read more about Bhutan’s king is set to visit Australia for the first time. Here’s why thousands will line the streets to see him">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University It might seem surprising today in the era of Donald Trump, but Republicans in the United States once championed immigration and supported pathways to citizenship for undocumented Americans. In January 1989, ... <a title="Republicans once championed immigration in the US. Now, under Trump, an ugly nativism has been normalised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/republicans-once-championed-immigration-in-the-us-now-under-trump-an-ugly-nativism-has-been-normalised-239836/" aria-label="Read more about Republicans once championed immigration in the US. Now, under Trump, an ugly nativism has been normalised">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonny Williams, Climate Scientist, University of Reading Getty Images Climate change is usually discussed in terms of rising temperatures. But scientists often use a different measure, known as “equilibrium climate sensitivity”. This is defined as the global mean warming caused by a doubling of pre-industrial carbon dioxide ... <a title="Will the Earth warm by 2°C or 5.5°C? Either way it’s bad, and trying to narrow it down may be a distraction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/will-the-earth-warm-by-2-c-or-5-5-c-either-way-its-bad-and-trying-to-narrow-it-down-may-be-a-distraction-229497/" aria-label="Read more about Will the Earth warm by 2°C or 5.5°C? Either way it’s bad, and trying to narrow it down may be a distraction">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron J. Snoswell, Research Fellow in AI Accountability, Queensland University of Technology The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to scientists John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks”. Inspired by ideas from physics and ... <a title="Physics Nobel awarded to neural network pioneers who laid foundations for AI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/physics-nobel-awarded-to-neural-network-pioneers-who-laid-foundations-for-ai-240833/" aria-label="Read more about Physics Nobel awarded to neural network pioneers who laid foundations for AI">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government on Wednesday will introduce legislation to ensure the NBN remains in government ownership. The move is designed to set up a test for the Coalition, putting pressure on the opposition ahead of the election to declare whether ... <a title="Government to put pressure on opposition with legislation to ensure NBN stays in public hands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/09/government-to-put-pressure-on-opposition-with-legislation-to-ensure-nbn-stays-in-public-hands-240807/" aria-label="Read more about Government to put pressure on opposition with legislation to ensure NBN stays in public hands">Read more</a>
