ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on October 4, 2025.
Manchester synagogue attack: why so many people in Britain’s Jewish community felt a sense of inevitability that this day would come
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Hargreaves, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology, City St George’s, University of London A man believed to be Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen born in Syria, has been shot dead by police after launching an attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom Kippur,
Birds all over the world use the same sound to warn of threats
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Feeney, Research fellow, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University; Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC) An angry Australian Superb Fairy-wren confronting a Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo. David Ongley Language enables us to connect with each other and coordinate to achieve incredible feats. Our ability to communicate abstract concepts is
Here’s what the review of the IVF industry said should change – and what it missed
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karin Hammarberg, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women’s Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University Estersinhache fotografía/Getty Reports of several cases of embryo and sperm mix-ups have put the Australian fertility industry in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. These bungles have
Keith Rankin Analysis – A Brief History of Monetary Policy (Part Two), including Modern Monetary Theory
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Last week I looked at how, for modern day purposes, monetary policy started around 1750. It began with the departure from the presumption that money is wealth to the idea that money is a veil and that therefore wealth is something else. That was, in a sense, the beginning of political
Taylor Swift’s Father Figure isn’t a cover, but an ‘interpolation’. What that means – and why it matters
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy McKenry, Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University On Taylor Swift’s highly-anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl, track four, Father Figure, includes the late George Michael as one of the credited songwriters. But Swift’s song is not a cover of Michael’s 1987 hit of the
How do banks assess you for a home loan? And how do you work out what you can afford?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ama Samarasinghe, Lecturer, Financial Planning and Tax, RMIT University Navigating the money side of buying a home can be daunting – especially if it’s your first time. Unless you’ve recently come into a small fortune, you’ll need to have saved a deposit and take out a home
‘Toothpick grooves’ in ancient fossil human teeth may not be from toothpicks after all
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Towle, Research Fellow in Biological Anthropology, Monash University A Neanderthal molar. Nowaczewska et al., 2021 For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with
