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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shane Clifton, Associate Professor of Practice, School of Health Sciences and the Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney Our bodies are delightfully ridiculous. When God created humanity, they knew our short lives would be full of pain, hardship and horror. So they created our ... <a title="People with disability know bodies can be funny – so it’s OK that you’re laughing at the Paralympics TikTok account" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/people-with-disability-know-bodies-can-be-funny-so-its-ok-that-youre-laughing-at-the-paralympics-tiktok-account-234926/" aria-label="Read more about People with disability know bodies can be funny – so it’s OK that you’re laughing at the Paralympics TikTok account">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne The first recorded victor at the Olympics was Coroebus of Elis. A cook by profession, Coroebus won the event called the “stadion” – a footrace of just under 200 metres, run in a straight line. Coroebus was victorious ... <a title="Nude athletes and fights to the death: what really happened at the ancient Olympics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/nude-athletes-and-fights-to-the-death-what-really-happened-at-the-ancient-olympics-234912/" aria-label="Read more about Nude athletes and fights to the death: what really happened at the ancient Olympics">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University Golden Sikorka/Shutterstock Australia’s clean energy transition is already underway, driven by solar, wind, batteries and new transmission lines. But what about nuclear? Opposition leader Peter Dutton last month committed to building nuclear reactors on the site ... <a title="Small modular reactors have promise. But we found they’re unlikely to help Australia hit net zero by 2050" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/small-modular-reactors-have-promise-but-we-found-theyre-unlikely-to-help-australia-hit-net-zero-by-2050-235198/" aria-label="Read more about Small modular reactors have promise. But we found they’re unlikely to help Australia hit net zero by 2050">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brigitte Viljoen, Psychotherapist and Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology Humans are interacting more than ever with artificial intelligence (AI) – from the development of the first “social robots” (a robot with a physical body programmed to interact and engage with humans) like Kismet in the 1990s to ... <a title="Social robot or digital avatar, users interact with this AI technology as if it’s real" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/social-robot-or-digital-avatar-users-interact-with-this-ai-technology-as-if-its-real-229798/" aria-label="Read more about Social robot or digital avatar, users interact with this AI technology as if it’s real">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Social media is a problem for economists. They don’t know how to value it. It has long been argued that it ought to be in the national accounts as part of gross domestic product. One ... <a title="Would you pay to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/would-you-pay-to-quit-tiktok-and-instagram-youd-be-surprised-how-many-would-235180/" aria-label="Read more about Would you pay to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The 2024 US election took another dramatic turn when President Joe Biden withdrew his re-election bid, endorsing his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to take his place. The quick switch from Biden to Harris has reinvigorated the Democratic Party and their ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Lester Munson on Kamala Harris’s style and a changed Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/politics-with-michelle-grattan-lester-munson-on-kamala-harriss-style-and-a-changed-trump-235320/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Lester Munson on Kamala Harris’s style and a changed Trump">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia Mayboon/Shutterstock Headlines are again warning of a new COVID variant in Australia. This time it’s LB.1, or as some experts have dubbed it, “D-FLiRT”. Emerging evidence suggests LB.1 could be more transmissible than earlier Omicron subvariants, ... <a title="LB.1, or D-FLiRT, is the newest COVID subvariant. What do we know about it? Where has it come from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/lb-1-or-d-flirt-is-the-newest-covid-subvariant-what-do-we-know-about-it-where-has-it-come-from-235217/" aria-label="Read more about LB.1, or D-FLiRT, is the newest COVID subvariant. What do we know about it? Where has it come from?">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wellett Potter, Lecturer in Law, University of New England Chuttersnap / Unsplash In May, a multibillion-dollar UK-based multinational called Informa announced in a trading update that it had signed a deal with Microsoft involving “access to advanced learning content and data, and a partnership to explore AI ... <a title="An academic publisher has struck an AI data deal with Microsoft – without their authors’ knowledge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/an-academic-publisher-has-struck-an-ai-data-deal-with-microsoft-without-their-authors-knowledge-235203/" aria-label="Read more about An academic publisher has struck an AI data deal with Microsoft – without their authors’ knowledge">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Adams, Professor of Corporate Law & Academic Director of UNE Sydney campus, University of New England Until last Friday, many businesses hadn’t really dealt with anything quite like the speed and severity of the CrowdStrike IT outage. Being forced to stop operations is costly. Some estimates ... <a title="The CrowdStrike outage caused chaos for business – could we see a class action?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/the-crowdstrike-outage-caused-chaos-for-business-could-we-see-a-class-action-235215/" aria-label="Read more about The CrowdStrike outage caused chaos for business – could we see a class action?">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University Vice President Kamala Harris had only just been endorsed by Joe Biden to take his spot as the Democratic nominee for president when she forcefully reminded Americans “what’s at stake in ... <a title="6 in 10 Americans support abortion rights. This could be the advantage Kamala Harris needs against Donald Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/6-in-10-americans-support-abortion-rights-this-could-be-the-advantage-kamala-harris-needs-against-donald-trump-235208/" aria-label="Read more about 6 in 10 Americans support abortion rights. This could be the advantage Kamala Harris needs against Donald Trump">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Garrow, Editorial Web Developer The modern Olympic Games offer a window into almost 130 years of social and cultural change. They reflect the fall of nations, war, the shifting winds of culture and the way people engage with sports, fitness and competition. We’ve taken data from ... <a title="Do hosts win more medals? Are athletes getting older? 128 years of Olympic history in 5 charts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/do-hosts-win-more-medals-are-athletes-getting-older-128-years-of-olympic-history-in-5-charts-233979/" aria-label="Read more about Do hosts win more medals? Are athletes getting older? 128 years of Olympic history in 5 charts">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hayley Boxall, Research Fellow, Australian National University Recent survey results show 25% of Australians agree that women who do not leave abusive relationships are partly responsible for the abuse continuing. This stubbornly common attitude demonstrates that victim-survivors are still being held responsible for the abuse they experience ... <a title="Naming and shaming domestic violence perpetrators doesn’t work to keep women safe. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/naming-and-shaming-domestic-violence-perpetrators-doesnt-work-to-keep-women-safe-heres-why-234911/" aria-label="Read more about Naming and shaming domestic violence perpetrators doesn’t work to keep women safe. Here’s why">Read more</a>
