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August 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hayley O’Neill, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University Adrian Swancar/Unsplash Your nose is running, your head hurts and you feel like you’re coming down with a cold. You’re settling in on the couch for a sick day. Then you reach for the snacks. ... <a title="Why do I crave sugar and carbs when I’m sick?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/25/why-do-i-crave-sugar-and-carbs-when-im-sick-210565/" aria-label="Read more about Why do I crave sugar and carbs when I’m sick?">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Shutterstock Our cities are complex places of work, industry and residential activities. This often makes it hard to pin down the spread of different contaminants throughout them. This can be a ... <a title="How bees can monitor pollution for us – everything from toxic metals to antimicrobial resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/25/how-bees-can-monitor-pollution-for-us-everything-from-toxic-metals-to-antimicrobial-resistance-211739/" aria-label="Read more about How bees can monitor pollution for us – everything from toxic metals to antimicrobial resistance">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura de Zwaan, Lecturer, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University This article is part of The Conversation’s series examining Australia’s cost of living crisis. Read the other articles in the series here. It’s no secret that the cost of living has increased substantially over the ... <a title="Shop around, take lunch, catch the bus. It is possible to ease the squeeze on your budget" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/25/shop-around-take-lunch-catch-the-bus-it-is-possible-to-ease-the-squeeze-on-your-budget-210895/" aria-label="Read more about Shop around, take lunch, catch the bus. It is possible to ease the squeeze on your budget">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grace Russell, Lecturer from the School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University MIFF I’ve been talking to my film students lately about the way that viewing contexts affect how we receive a film – whether this means different hardware, locations, moods and modes of engaging. While ... <a title="The five best films at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/25/the-five-best-films-at-this-years-melbourne-international-film-festival-210965/" aria-label="Read more about The five best films at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rafal Chomik, Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW Sydney Commonwealth Treasury The Australian government has just released the latest iteration of its Intergenerational Report, the sixth since the first was published in 2002. Each provides a snapshot of the sort ... <a title="Slower ageing, but slower economic growth: the Intergenerational Report in 7 charts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/slower-ageing-but-slower-economic-growth-the-intergenerational-report-in-7-charts-211695/" aria-label="Read more about Slower ageing, but slower economic growth: the Intergenerational Report in 7 charts">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU, Australian National University Perhaps the most unexpected thing about the plane crash that reportedly killed Yevgeny Prigozhin, the bombastic head of Russia’s infamous Wagner group, is that it happened a full ... <a title="Analysis – Wagner chief Prigozhin reportedly killed, but has Putin cooked his own goose?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/wagner-chief-prigozhin-reportedly-killed-but-has-putin-cooked-his-own-goose-212180/" aria-label="Read more about Analysis – Wagner chief Prigozhin reportedly killed, but has Putin cooked his own goose?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Crellin, PhD Student / FNRS Aspirant, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) VanderWolf Images, Shutterstock As the world warms and the climate changes, people are experiencing more frequent and intense extreme weather events. Just this year, heatwaves blasted southern Europe, the United States and China; wildfires lit ... <a title="Bushfires focus public attention on climate change for months, but it’s different for storms and floods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/bushfires-focus-public-attention-on-climate-change-for-months-but-its-different-for-storms-and-floods-212096/" aria-label="Read more about Bushfires focus public attention on climate change for months, but it’s different for storms and floods">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Graves, Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University The Y chromosome is a never-ending source of fascination (particularly to men) because it bears genes that determine maleness and make sperm. It’s also small and seriously weird; it carries few genes and is ... <a title="The ‘weird’ male Y chromosome has finally been fully sequenced. Can we now understand how it works, and how it evolved?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/the-weird-male-y-chromosome-has-finally-been-fully-sequenced-can-we-now-understand-how-it-works-and-how-it-evolved-212112/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘weird’ male Y chromosome has finally been fully sequenced. Can we now understand how it works, and how it evolved?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Director, Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre; Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University Shutterstock There is increasing attention on the lack of progress around sexual harassment and assault on Australian university campuses. On Wednesday, Education Minister Jason Clare acknowledged community concerns, ... <a title="Sexual harassment impacts university staff – our research shows how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/sexual-harassment-impacts-university-staff-our-research-shows-how-211996/" aria-label="Read more about Sexual harassment impacts university staff – our research shows how">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Scott Luskin, Researcher and Lecturer in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland A Southern Red Muntjac deer peering at a camera trap. Authors It’s easy to assume protected areas such as national parks conserve wildlife – that seems obvious. But what is the proof? And how ... <a title="Leakage or spillover? Conservation parks boost biodiversity outside them – but there’s a catch, new study shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/leakage-or-spillover-conservation-parks-boost-biodiversity-outside-them-but-theres-a-catch-new-study-shows-212014/" aria-label="Read more about Leakage or spillover? Conservation parks boost biodiversity outside them – but there’s a catch, new study shows">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Australia of the 2060s will be very different from the one we know today. It will be older, with slower economic growth, a big “care” economy, and an export sector that is radically transformed due to the imperatives of ... <a title="A very different country: the Intergenerational Report’s picture of Australia in the 2060s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/a-very-different-country-the-intergenerational-reports-picture-of-australia-in-the-2060s-212185/" aria-label="Read more about A very different country: the Intergenerational Report’s picture of Australia in the 2060s">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Larkin, Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong Shutterstock On social media and in wellbeing circles, people have been talking about the vagus nerve a lot. In fact, we have two vagus nerves – a left and a right – and their optimal functioning is ... <a title="Our vagus nerves help us rest, digest and restore. Can you really reset them to feel better?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/24/our-vagus-nerves-help-us-rest-digest-and-restore-can-you-really-reset-them-to-feel-better-210469/" aria-label="Read more about Our vagus nerves help us rest, digest and restore. Can you really reset them to feel better?">Read more</a>
