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January 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Swee-Hoon Chuah, Professor of Behavioural Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania Shutterstock Chances are that the end of the year has made you assess some of your 2024 New Year’s resolutions. Perhaps you, like us, bought a home spin bike or rowing machine in January. Most ... <a title="Why your spin bike has become a clothes rack – and what you can do about it, according to behavioural science" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/02/why-your-spin-bike-has-become-a-clothes-rack-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-according-to-behavioural-science-245154/" aria-label="Read more about Why your spin bike has become a clothes rack – and what you can do about it, according to behavioural science">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Fuller, Clinical Trials Director, Department of Endocrinology, RPA Hospital, University of Sydney Allgo/Unsplash As we enter a new year armed with resolutions to improve our lives, there’s a good chance we’ll also be carrying something less helpful: extra kilos. At least half a kilogram, to be ... <a title="Most adults will gain half a kilo this year – and every year. Here’s how to stop ‘weight creep’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/02/most-adults-will-gain-half-a-kilo-this-year-and-every-year-heres-how-to-stop-weight-creep-244186/" aria-label="Read more about Most adults will gain half a kilo this year – and every year. Here’s how to stop ‘weight creep’">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University ijimino, Shutterstock Parasite, zombie, leech – these words are often used to describe people in unkind ways. Many of us recoil when ticks, tapeworms, fleas, head lice or bed bugs are ... <a title="Mind-bending, body-snatching, blood-sucking: parasites are bizarre yet vital for life on Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/02/mind-bending-body-snatching-blood-sucking-parasites-are-bizarre-yet-vital-for-life-on-earth-240547/" aria-label="Read more about Mind-bending, body-snatching, blood-sucking: parasites are bizarre yet vital for life on Earth">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rod McNaughton, Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Startups have always been at the forefront of innovation. But factors such as artificial intelligence (AI), sustainability and decentralisation are set to reshape industries in 2025. Businesses are defined as startups when they are in the ... <a title="The multi-billion dollar startup sector is bouncing back – 8 big trends will shape 2025" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/02/the-multi-billion-dollar-startup-sector-is-bouncing-back-8-big-trends-will-shape-2025-245653/" aria-label="Read more about The multi-billion dollar startup sector is bouncing back – 8 big trends will shape 2025">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francisco Perales, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland fizkes/Shutterstock Australian women are better educated than men but still face poorer job prospects and lower incomes. We see this in Australia’s stubbornly persistent gender pay gap – estimated at nearly 22%. Our research ... <a title="How having a baby makes it more likely Australian couples rely on the man’s income" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/02/how-having-a-baby-makes-it-more-likely-australian-couples-rely-on-the-mans-income-238673/" aria-label="Read more about How having a baby makes it more likely Australian couples rely on the man’s income">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Shutterstock According to Britannica, “art” can be described as something “consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination” – whereas Wikipedia defines it more narrowly as a human activity. But are humans the ... <a title="Can animals make ‘art’? These examples from nature suggest so" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/02/can-animals-make-art-these-examples-from-nature-suggest-so-237126/" aria-label="Read more about Can animals make ‘art’? These examples from nature suggest so">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Lomb, Honorary Professor, Centre for Astrophysics, University of Southern Queensland The totally eclipsed Moon on 26 May 2021. Geoffrey Wyatt, Powerhouse Museum, CC BY In addition to the annual parade of star pictures or constellations passing above our heads each night, there are always exciting events ... <a title="A total eclipse of the Moon, Saturn’s rings ‘disappear’, meteors and more: your guide to the southern sky in 2025" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/01/a-total-eclipse-of-the-moon-saturns-rings-disappear-meteors-and-more-your-guide-to-the-southern-sky-in-2025-242601/" aria-label="Read more about A total eclipse of the Moon, Saturn’s rings ‘disappear’, meteors and more: your guide to the southern sky in 2025">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Peden, NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health & co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney Wanderlust Media/Shutterstock It’s the morning after a big night and you’re feeling the effects of too much alcohol. So it can be tempting to “refresh” and take the edge ... <a title="The surprising ways ‘swimming off’ a hangover can be risky, even if alcohol has left your system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/01/the-surprising-ways-swimming-off-a-hangover-can-be-risky-even-if-alcohol-has-left-your-system-243243/" aria-label="Read more about The surprising ways ‘swimming off’ a hangover can be risky, even if alcohol has left your system">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2024
Democracy Now! Gaza’s Health Ministry has confirmed that close to 46,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s ongoing assault, but Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah estimates the true number is closer to 300,000. “This is literally and mathematically a genocidal project,” says Dr Abu-Sittah, a British Palestinian reconstructive surgeon who worked in Gaza for more than a ... <a title="A ‘genocidal project’ – Dr Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/31/a-genocidal-project-dr-abu-sittah-on-israels-destruction-of-gazas-health-system/" aria-label="Read more about A ‘genocidal project’ – Dr Abu-Sittah on Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health system">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2024
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent The Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas has paid tribute to former US President Jimmy Carter who died yesterday. “Carter played a pivotal role in the historic establishment of the CNMI as a Commonwealth in political union with the United States,” Governor ... <a title="Pacific leaders remember Jimmy Carter’s ‘pivotal role’ for CNMI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/31/pacific-leaders-remember-jimmy-carters-pivotal-role-for-cnmi/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders remember Jimmy Carter’s ‘pivotal role’ for CNMI">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Scofield, Adjunct Professor in Palaeontology, University of Canterbury An artist’s impression of a Platypterigius ichthyosaur. Dmitry Bogdanov, CC BY-SA Ichthyosaurs were reptiles that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. They evolved separately around 250 million years ago, possibly from a crocodile-like ancestor, ... <a title="The discovery of a rare new fossil sheds light on NZ’s extinct dolphin-like reptiles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/31/the-discovery-of-a-rare-new-fossil-sheds-light-on-nzs-extinct-dolphin-like-reptiles-244383/" aria-label="Read more about The discovery of a rare new fossil sheds light on NZ’s extinct dolphin-like reptiles">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evie Kendal, Senior Lecturer of Health Promotion, Swinburne University of Technology Project Apollo Archive/Flickr By the end of this decade, nations and private companies may well be mining the surface of the Moon. But as space becomes accessible to more nations and corporations, we need to stop ... <a title="Humans will soon be able to mine on the Moon. But should we? 4 questions to consider" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/31/humans-will-soon-be-able-to-mine-on-the-moon-but-should-we-4-questions-to-consider-242016/" aria-label="Read more about Humans will soon be able to mine on the Moon. But should we? 4 questions to consider">Read more</a>
