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December 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah J MacLean, Associate professor, La Trobe University Shutterstock As we head towards the end of the year, office get-togethers, Christmas lunches and New Year’s parties are upon us. It seems like a prime opportunity for young people to be drinking the night away. But something unexpected ... <a title="Why are young people drinking less than their parents’ generation did?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/24/why-are-young-people-drinking-less-than-their-parents-generation-did-172225/" aria-label="Read more about Why are young people drinking less than their parents’ generation did?">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Salis, NHMRC Senior Research Fellow in the School of Human Sciences, The University of Western Australia Shutterstock Ever eaten that last slice of pizza, even though you’ve had enough? Or polished off kids’ leftovers, despite already feeling full? To understand what’s happening – and how to ... <a title="Step away from the table – why you keep eating when you’re full" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/24/step-away-from-the-table-why-you-keep-eating-when-youre-full-170649/" aria-label="Read more about Step away from the table – why you keep eating when you’re full">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ralph Sims, Emeritus Professor, Energy and Climate Mitigation, Massey University Shutterstock/Matej Kastelic As New Zealanders plan their summer holiday trips, it’s worth considering different travel options and their respective cost, both to the budget and the environment. I’ve compared several travel modes (with all assumptions made found ... <a title="Convenience, comfort, cost and carbon: what’s the best way to travel, save money and cut emissions?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/24/convenience-comfort-cost-and-carbon-whats-the-best-way-to-travel-save-money-and-cut-emissions-165526/" aria-label="Read more about Convenience, comfort, cost and carbon: what’s the best way to travel, save money and cut emissions?">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Voss, Learning Designer- Technology Enhancement, Bond University Shutterstock This article is part of a series explaining how readers can learn the skills to take part in activities that academics love doing as part of their work. Music technology has always fascinated me. My father’s reel-to-reel tape ... <a title="So you want to be a music producer? You can learn the skills online to do it at home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/24/so-you-want-to-be-a-music-producer-you-can-learn-the-skills-online-to-do-it-at-home-171220/" aria-label="Read more about So you want to be a music producer? You can learn the skills online to do it at home">Read more</a>
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December 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society and NATSEM, University of Canberra shutterstock John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was the greatest economist of the twentieth century. Less well known is that he had a parallel career as a successful investor: fairly successful early in ... <a title="Would Keynes have bought Bitcoin?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/24/would-keynes-have-bought-bitcoin-172065/" aria-label="Read more about Would Keynes have bought Bitcoin?">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Associate Professor of the Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney Shutterstock With summer holidays underway, it’s time to think about the sun and your skin. Australia has the highest rate of skin cancer in the world, so we need to be doing more to protect ... <a title="Drugs and the sun – your daily medications could put you at greater risk of sunburn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/23/drugs-and-the-sun-your-daily-medications-could-put-you-at-greater-risk-of-sunburn-170559/" aria-label="Read more about Drugs and the sun – your daily medications could put you at greater risk of sunburn">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Power, Associate Professor in Coastal and Marine Science, University of Newcastle A sandy beach with rocky headland. Hannah Power. As lockdowns ease and we head into summer, many Australians have started thinking about their beach holiday. For most people, a beach involves sun, sand, salt, and ... <a title="From enormous tides to millions of shells, here are 6 unique beaches for your summer road trip" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/23/from-enormous-tides-to-millions-of-shells-here-are-6-unique-beaches-for-your-summer-road-trip-169164/" aria-label="Read more about From enormous tides to millions of shells, here are 6 unique beaches for your summer road trip">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peta Stapleton, Associate Professor in Psychology, Bond University Shutterstock This article is part of a series explaining how readers can learn the skills to take part in activities that academics love doing as part of their work. Almost two decades ago a colleague in the counselling field ... <a title="Feeling stressed? It’s ‘a bit weird’, but tapping helps – and it’s easy to learn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/23/feeling-stressed-its-a-bit-weird-but-tapping-helps-and-its-easy-to-learn-171219/" aria-label="Read more about Feeling stressed? It’s ‘a bit weird’, but tapping helps – and it’s easy to learn">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jordi Vidal-Robert, Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney Pedro Berruguete Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe. Wikimedia From Imperial Rome to the Crusades, to modern North Korea or the treatment of Rohingya in Myanmar, religious persecution has been a tool of state control for millennia. While its ... <a title="Extraordinarily, the effects of the Spanish Inquisition linger to this day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/23/extraordinarily-the-effects-of-the-spanish-inquisition-linger-to-this-day-166170/" aria-label="Read more about Extraordinarily, the effects of the Spanish Inquisition linger to this day">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland Jan van Eyck, The Ghent Altarpiece, 1432. Virgin Mary detail. Wikimedia Commons Mary, the mother of Jesus, is unquestionably the senior saint within the Christian tradition. Yet we know remarkably little about ... <a title="5 things to know about Mary, the mother of Jesus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/23/5-things-to-know-about-mary-the-mother-of-jesus-172483/" aria-label="Read more about 5 things to know about Mary, the mother of Jesus">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James A. T. Lancaster, Lecturer in Studies in Western Religious Traditions, The University of Queensland The Feast of the Bean King, painted by Jacob Jordaens around 1640-1645. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna When English Puritans outlawed Christmas in 1647, it was not without good reason. When American Puritans, in ... <a title="The sordid underbelly of Christmas past" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/23/the-sordid-underbelly-of-christmas-past-172873/" aria-label="Read more about The sordid underbelly of Christmas past">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Yelland, Professor of Early Childhood Studies, The University of Melbourne Getty Images It’s that time of the year again, and besides the new COVID-era concerns about retail supply chains comes the age-old question: what’s the best educational toy to buy for the child (or grandchild) in ... <a title="Don’t fret about buying the ‘right’ toy – any toy is educational if you support kids in their play" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/22/dont-fret-about-buying-the-right-toy-any-toy-is-educational-if-you-support-kids-in-their-play-173174/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t fret about buying the ‘right’ toy – any toy is educational if you support kids in their play">Read more</a>
