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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron Robotham, Research Associate Professor & UWA Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia Antikythera mechanism in National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. Viacheslav Lopatin/Shutterstock The coastal town of Exmouth in Western Australia is due to experience one of the most spectacular astronomical phenomena on April 20 2023 ... <a title="Humans have been predicting eclipses for thousands of years, but it’s harder than you might think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/humans-have-been-predicting-eclipses-for-thousands-of-years-but-its-harder-than-you-might-think-202034/" aria-label="Read more about Humans have been predicting eclipses for thousands of years, but it’s harder than you might think">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Young, Professor of Political Science, The University of Melbourne South Sea Islander women, Cairns, circa 1895 National Museum of Australia In a splash of articles published over the past two weeks, the British Guardian has acknowledged and apologised for its historical links with slavery. The Scott ... <a title="Unpapering the cracks: sugar, slavery and the Sydney Morning Herald" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/unpapering-the-cracks-sugar-slavery-and-the-sydney-morning-herald-202828/" aria-label="Read more about Unpapering the cracks: sugar, slavery and the Sydney Morning Herald">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Pate, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney Pexels, CC BY For every feeling we experience, there is a lot of complex biology going on underneath our skin. Pain involves our whole body. When faced with possible threats, the feeling of pain develops in a ... <a title="Turning down the volume of pain – how to retrain your brain when you get sensitised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/turning-down-the-volume-of-pain-how-to-retrain-your-brain-when-you-get-sensitised-202850/" aria-label="Read more about Turning down the volume of pain – how to retrain your brain when you get sensitised">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan N Williams, Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney Joseph Lycett, Aborigines using fire to hunt kangaroo (c.1817) National Library of Australia Indigenous Australians have conducted cultural burning for at least ten millenia and the practice helped reduce bushfire risk ... <a title="A dive into the deep past reveals Indigenous burning helped suppress bushfires 10,000 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/a-dive-into-the-deep-past-reveals-indigenous-burning-helped-suppress-bushfires-10-000-years-ago-203754/" aria-label="Read more about A dive into the deep past reveals Indigenous burning helped suppress bushfires 10,000 years ago">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Tai, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels This article is part of our series on big ideas for the Universities Accord. The federal government is calling ideas to “reshape and reimagine higher education, and set it up for the next decade and beyond”. A review ... <a title="We need to change the way universities assess students, starting with these 3 things" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/we-need-to-change-the-way-universities-assess-students-starting-with-these-3-things-203048/" aria-label="Read more about We need to change the way universities assess students, starting with these 3 things">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Mortlock, Adjunct Fellow, UNSW Sydney An anemometer. Wattanasit Chunopas/Shutterstock Tropical cyclone Ilsa has been downgraded to a category-three cyclone as it moves southeast through Western Australia. The storm first made landfall as a category-five cyclone, passing near Port Hedland around midnight. Ilsa smashed into the largely ... <a title="Cyclone Ilsa just broke an Australian wind speed record. An expert explains why the science behind this is so complex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/cyclone-ilsa-just-broke-an-australian-wind-speed-record-an-expert-explains-why-the-science-behind-this-is-so-complex-203835/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Ilsa just broke an Australian wind speed record. An expert explains why the science behind this is so complex">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Holland, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s hope for a bipartisan approach on the Voice to parliament referendum has crumbled. Late last year, the National party declared it would oppose the proposed model, while the Liberal party did the same earlier this month. Nationals ... <a title="Dutton’s ‘no’ vote reflects 40 years of Coalition partisanship on the Voice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/duttons-no-vote-reflects-40-years-of-coalition-partisanship-on-the-voice-203660/" aria-label="Read more about Dutton’s ‘no’ vote reflects 40 years of Coalition partisanship on the Voice">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Humphery-Jenner, Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Sydney shutterstoc Shutterstock Sydney-based startup MilkRun made a big splash with its promise to deliver groceries within ten minutes, raising more than A$85 million from some of the biggest names in Australian venture capital, including Atlassian billionare Mike Cannon-Brookes. MilkRun’s ... <a title="MilkRun’s demise is another nail in the 10-minute grocery-delivery business model" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/milkruns-demise-is-another-nail-in-the-10-minute-grocery-delivery-business-model-203757/" aria-label="Read more about MilkRun’s demise is another nail in the 10-minute grocery-delivery business model">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Booth, Associate Professor of Human Geography, University of Tasmania Most communities along the northwest coast of Western Australia appear to have dodged a bullet after Cyclone Ilsa made landfall overnight. While some structures, such as the Pardoo Roadhouse, were damaged, the destruction was less than we ... <a title="Cyclone Ilsa: how disasters, the housing crisis and underinsurance can conspire to worsen inequality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/cyclone-ilsa-how-disasters-the-housing-crisis-and-underinsurance-can-conspire-to-worsen-inequality-203753/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Ilsa: how disasters, the housing crisis and underinsurance can conspire to worsen inequality">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland Humberto Portillo Australians are jetting back out into the world again. The numbers are still below pre-pandemic levels, but almost 1.1 million Australians left the country in December last year – compared to ... <a title="Travelling overseas? Here’s what the embassy will – and won’t – do to help if you get in trouble" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/travelling-overseas-heres-what-the-embassy-will-and-wont-do-to-help-if-you-get-in-trouble-198589/" aria-label="Read more about Travelling overseas? Here’s what the embassy will – and won’t – do to help if you get in trouble">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Murphy, Senior Lecturer, Astrophysics, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Finding life on other planets might well be the holy grail of astronomy, but the hunt for suitable host planets that can sustain life is a resource-intensive task. The search for exoplanets (planets outside our Solar System) ... <a title="Astronomers have directly detected a massive exoplanet. The method could transform the search for life beyond Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/astronomers-have-directly-detected-a-massive-exoplanet-the-method-could-transform-the-search-for-life-beyond-earth-203752/" aria-label="Read more about Astronomers have directly detected a massive exoplanet. The method could transform the search for life beyond Earth">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lyria Bennett Moses, Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW; Director of the UNSW Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation, UNSW Sydney Michael Dwyer/AP Australia has joined other countries in announcing a ban on the use of TikTok on government devices, with some ... <a title="Australia needs a robust cybersecurity overhaul – not whack-a-mole bans on apps like TikTok" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/australia-needs-a-robust-cybersecurity-overhaul-not-whack-a-mole-bans-on-apps-like-tiktok-203158/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs a robust cybersecurity overhaul – not whack-a-mole bans on apps like TikTok">Read more</a>
