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February 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Rudge, Law lecturer, University of Sydney Canvan-Images/Shutterstock Over the past decade, “sexsomnia” has been used as a defence in a number of Australian sexual assault trials. This sleep disorder – sometimes known as “sleep sex” – causes people to engage in sexual behaviour while asleep. Last ... <a title="What is sexsomnia? And how can it be used as a defence in court?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/06/what-is-sexsomnia-and-how-can-it-be-used-as-a-defence-in-court-248756/" aria-label="Read more about What is sexsomnia? And how can it be used as a defence in court?">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne Edward Lorenz’s mathematical weather model showed solutions with a butterfly-like shape. Wikimol In 1972, the US meteorologist Edward Lorenz asked a now-famous question: Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in ... <a title="The butterfly effect: this obscure mathematical concept has become an everyday idea, but do we have it all wrong?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/06/the-butterfly-effect-this-obscure-mathematical-concept-has-become-an-everyday-idea-but-do-we-have-it-all-wrong-246577/" aria-label="Read more about The butterfly effect: this obscure mathematical concept has become an everyday idea, but do we have it all wrong?">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fan Yang, Research fellow at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society., The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Migrants in Australia often encounter disinformation targeting their communities. However, disinformation circulated in non-English languages and within private chat ... <a title="Elections mean more misinformation. Here’s what we know about how it spreads in migrant communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/06/elections-mean-more-misinformation-heres-what-we-know-about-how-it-spreads-in-migrant-communities-247685/" aria-label="Read more about Elections mean more misinformation. Here’s what we know about how it spreads in migrant communities">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Lintern, Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, specialising in water quality, Monash University Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in Australian rivers has revealed. The problem on the reef is getting worse, not better, despite efforts ... <a title="‘Serious concerns’: national assessment reveals rivers flowing into the Great Barrier Reef are getting more polluted" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/06/serious-concerns-national-assessment-reveals-rivers-flowing-into-the-great-barrier-reef-are-getting-more-polluted-248903/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Serious concerns’: national assessment reveals rivers flowing into the Great Barrier Reef are getting more polluted">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rod McNaughton, Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Sergey Nivens/Getty Images By claiming workplaces need to “man up”, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is ignoring one of the biggest untapped opportunities for economic growth – women entrepreneurs. A 2024 study found promoting female entrepreneurship can ... <a title="Mark Zuckerberg wants business to ‘man up’, but what it really needs is more women entrepreneurs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/06/mark-zuckerberg-wants-business-to-man-up-but-what-it-really-needs-is-more-women-entrepreneurs-248440/" aria-label="Read more about Mark Zuckerberg wants business to ‘man up’, but what it really needs is more women entrepreneurs">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tamer Morris, Senior lecturer, international law, University of Sydney In an astonishing news conference in Washington, US President Donald Trump proposed the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently relocate the nearly two million Palestinians living there to neighbouring countries. Trump has previously called on ... <a title="Trump wants the US to ‘take over’ Gaza and relocate the people. Is this legal?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/trump-wants-the-us-to-take-over-gaza-and-relocate-the-people-is-this-legal-249143/" aria-label="Read more about Trump wants the US to ‘take over’ Gaza and relocate the people. Is this legal?">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne Gena Melendrez/Shutterstock Heatwaves are among the world’s deadliest weather hazards. Every year, vast numbers of people are killed by heat stress and it can worsen health problems such as diabetes, asthma ... <a title="To keep your cool in a heatwave, it may help to water your trees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/to-keep-your-cool-in-a-heatwave-it-may-help-to-water-your-trees-246486/" aria-label="Read more about To keep your cool in a heatwave, it may help to water your trees">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne One of the executive orders US President Donald Trump signed the day he was inaugurated was a 90-day pause in US foreign development assistance. The US Agency for International Development, USAID, was ordered to halt funding. ... <a title="In freezing foreign aid, the US leaves people to die – and allows China to come to the rescue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/in-freezing-foreign-aid-the-us-leaves-people-to-die-and-allows-china-to-come-to-the-rescue-249024/" aria-label="Read more about In freezing foreign aid, the US leaves people to die – and allows China to come to the rescue">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Associate Professor of Healthcare Innovations, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University Parts of North Queensland have received almost two metres of rain since the weekend, causing flash and riverine flooding that claimed the lives of two women around Ingham. While some North ... <a title="Returning home after a flood? Prioritise your health and take it one step at a time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/returning-home-after-a-flood-prioritise-your-health-and-take-it-one-step-at-a-time-248902/" aria-label="Read more about Returning home after a flood? Prioritise your health and take it one step at a time">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Harriette Richards, Senior Lecturer, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University Despite the many musical achievements celebrated at this year’s Grammy Awards, it was Bianca Censori’s red carpet appearance that won the award for most headlines. Walking the red carpet with her husband Ye (Kanye West), nominated ... <a title="Bold statement, or a product of misogyny? What Bianca Censori’s ‘naked dress’ says about fashion on the red carpet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/bold-statement-or-a-product-of-misogyny-what-bianca-censoris-naked-dress-says-about-fashion-on-the-red-carpet-249001/" aria-label="Read more about Bold statement, or a product of misogyny? What Bianca Censori’s ‘naked dress’ says about fashion on the red carpet">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy McKenry, Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University Beyoncé appeared visibly astonished to hear her album Cowboy Carter had won best country album at this year’s Grammy Awards. Onstage, the singer offered a heartfelt reflection on musical genre: I think sometimes genre is a code word to ... <a title="Beyoncé is right – music genres can force artists into conformity. But ditching them isn’t an option" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/beyonce-is-right-music-genres-can-force-artists-into-conformity-but-ditching-them-isnt-an-option-249016/" aria-label="Read more about Beyoncé is right – music genres can force artists into conformity. But ditching them isn’t an option">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Graffam-O’Meara, PhD Candidate in Theatre, Monash University Matto Lucas/UMAC/Midsumma Milo Hartill is “Black, fat and f**gy”, according to the title of her new cabaret work. Actor, model, influencer and one helluva singer, 24-year-old Hartill shines. Black, Fat and F**gy is an autobiographical show, tracing defining moments ... <a title="Milo Hartill’s Black, Fat and F**gy is rough around the edges – and all the more beautiful for it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/milo-hartills-black-fat-and-f-gy-is-rough-around-the-edges-and-all-the-more-beautiful-for-it-248998/" aria-label="Read more about Milo Hartill’s Black, Fat and F**gy is rough around the edges – and all the more beautiful for it">Read more</a>
