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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriel Filippelli, Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University A lot of lead from gasoline, house paint and industrial emissions has ended up in soil, and it poses serious health risks. Jamie Grill, Tetra Images via Getty Images As spring phases into ... <a title="EPA has lowered the screening level for lead in soil – here’s what that could mean for households across the US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/epa-has-lowered-the-screening-level-for-lead-in-soil-heres-what-that-could-mean-for-households-across-the-us-224609/" aria-label="Read more about EPA has lowered the screening level for lead in soil – here’s what that could mean for households across the US">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University There’s something curious about the proposed merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare. Chemist Warehouse has about 550 retail pharmacies. Sigma has another 400. Yet the law limits owners to just a handful of pharmacies ... <a title="The Chemist Warehouse deal is a sideshow: pharmacies are ripe for bigger disruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/the-chemist-warehouse-deal-is-a-sideshow-pharmacies-are-ripe-for-bigger-disruption-232586/" aria-label="Read more about The Chemist Warehouse deal is a sideshow: pharmacies are ripe for bigger disruption">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nilupama Wijewardena, Lecturer, College of Business and Law, RMIT University fizkes/Shutterstock When asked to describe an ideal organisational leader, many people might be inclined to use quite serious adjectives such as solemn, determined or results-oriented. Yet one trait is not only often overlooked, but also essential for ... <a title="Humour can make you a better workplace leader, if you use it properly – here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/humour-can-make-you-a-better-workplace-leader-if-you-use-it-properly-heres-how-232158/" aria-label="Read more about Humour can make you a better workplace leader, if you use it properly – here’s how">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Penny Olsen, Honorary Professor in Ecology and Evolution, Australian National University Neil Tavener Birds have been known to seek out pungent chemicals for various reasons. Some consume fermented fruits with gusto and suffer the ill effects. Others expose themselves to ants, but only the stinky kind. These ... <a title="High fliers: pleasure-seeking parrots are using aromatic plants, stinky ants and alcohol" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/high-fliers-pleasure-seeking-parrots-are-using-aromatic-plants-stinky-ants-and-alcohol-231068/" aria-label="Read more about High fliers: pleasure-seeking parrots are using aromatic plants, stinky ants and alcohol">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Doug Drury, Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia Vaalaa / Shutterstock Late last night, Virgin Australia flight VA 148 set out from Queenstown in New Zealand bound for Melbourne. Not long after takeoff, the right engine of the Boeing 737-800 jet started emitting loud bangs, followed by flames. ... <a title="Bird strike: what happens when a plane collides with a bird?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/bird-strike-what-happens-when-a-plane-collides-with-a-bird-232702/" aria-label="Read more about Bird strike: what happens when a plane collides with a bird?">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has formally expressed its displeasure to the Chinese embassy over Chinese officials trying to impede camera shots of journalist Cheng Lei during Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Canberra this week. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the ABC ... <a title="Albanese government raises ‘concern’ over treatment of journalist Cheng Lei with Chinese embassy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/albanese-government-raises-concern-over-treatment-of-journalist-cheng-lei-with-chinese-embassy-232711/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government raises ‘concern’ over treatment of journalist Cheng Lei with Chinese embassy">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Williamson, Senior Tutor in English, University of Canterbury Jodie Comer in The End We Start From. Signature Entertainment Writing over 30 years ago, feminist film scholar E. Ann Kaplan famously described mothers in cinema as “an absent presence” – background figures that might facilitate the narrative ... <a title="Mothers have long been absent from dystopian stories. ‘Maternal cli-fi’ is changing the narrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/mothers-have-long-been-absent-from-dystopian-stories-maternal-cli-fi-is-changing-the-narrative-232475/" aria-label="Read more about Mothers have long been absent from dystopian stories. ‘Maternal cli-fi’ is changing the narrative">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Moro, Associate Professor of Science & Medicine, Bond University Ground Picture/Shutterstock Why do you get bubbles (pins and needles) in your legs when you sit on them? – Bonnie, aged four, Melbourne That’s a great question, Bonnie. There are a few reasons we might get a ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do you get pins and needles in your legs when you sit on them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/curious-kids-why-do-you-get-pins-and-needles-in-your-legs-when-you-sit-on-them-231479/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do you get pins and needles in your legs when you sit on them?">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa French, Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University ABC Ladies in Black, the new six-part ABC series, opens with Magda (Debi Mazar), the head of Goodes luxury department store’s “Model Gowns”. As Magda is striding assuredly down the main street, we hear Peggy ... <a title="ABC’s new series Ladies in Black gives us vintage fashions and feminist anthems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/abcs-new-series-ladies-in-black-gives-us-vintage-fashions-and-feminist-anthems-232249/" aria-label="Read more about ABC’s new series Ladies in Black gives us vintage fashions and feminist anthems">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Celine Marshall, Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Otago Getty Images While the proposed revisions of the English curriculum in secondary schools have unnerved and offended some, there is perhaps one silver lining. In a system seemingly intent on pushing students towards scientific and technical subjects, ... <a title="Give Chaucer a chance! Why ‘dead white men’ can still be relevant in NZ’s classrooms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/give-chaucer-a-chance-why-dead-white-men-can-still-be-relevant-in-nzs-classrooms-232376/" aria-label="Read more about Give Chaucer a chance! Why ‘dead white men’ can still be relevant in NZ’s classrooms">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pok Man Leung, Research Fellow in Microbiology, Monash University Carsten Steger / Wikimedia, CC BY Three-quarters of all matter in the universe is made up of hydrogen. The young Earth was also rich in hydrogen, thanks to fierce geological and volcanic activity. Just as stars burn hydrogen ... <a title="Some of Earth’s most ancient lifeforms can live on hydrogen – and we can learn from their chemical powers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/some-of-earths-most-ancient-lifeforms-can-live-on-hydrogen-and-we-can-learn-from-their-chemical-powers-231382/" aria-label="Read more about Some of Earth’s most ancient lifeforms can live on hydrogen – and we can learn from their chemical powers">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney The South Australian government has proposed banning political donations because of the risk and the perception that they buy undue influence and fuel corruption. Premier Peter Malinauskas said the aim was to “give South Australians confidence that ... <a title="South Australia’s plan to ban political donations raises big risks as well as benefits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/south-australias-plan-to-ban-political-donations-raises-big-risks-as-well-as-benefits-232383/" aria-label="Read more about South Australia’s plan to ban political donations raises big risks as well as benefits">Read more</a>
