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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dilani Gedera, Teaching and Learning Manager, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock As any university student, lecturer or tutor can attest, the pandemic has turned learning and teaching upside down. So it’s important we understand what happens for students when their learning shifts online with little to no ... <a title="Beyond Zoom, Teams and video lectures — what do university students really want from online learning?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/beyond-zoom-teams-and-video-lectures-what-do-university-students-really-want-from-online-learning-167705/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond Zoom, Teams and video lectures — what do university students really want from online learning?">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexey D Muraviev, Associate Professor of National Security and Strategic Studies, Curtin University Alexei Druzhinin/AP The global opinions on the new AUKUS security pact between Australia, the US and the UK have been decidedly mixed. China and France immediately blasted the deal, while others, such as Japan ... <a title="After AUKUS, Russia sees a potential threat — and an opportunity to market its own submarines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/after-aukus-russia-sees-a-potential-threat-and-an-opportunity-to-market-its-own-submarines-168374/" aria-label="Read more about After AUKUS, Russia sees a potential threat — and an opportunity to market its own submarines">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Quain, Lecturer, University of Sydney He Gong/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Within minutes of Melbourne being rattled by yesterday’s earthquake, my Victorian friends reported changes in the behaviour of their animals. One friend wrote on social media that her dog Harvey stood in the hallway howling for five ... <a title="Can animals sense when an earthquake is about to happen?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/can-animals-sense-when-an-earthquake-is-about-to-happen-168483/" aria-label="Read more about Can animals sense when an earthquake is about to happen?">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Lake, Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University First Lady Frances Cleveland and the wives of members of Cleveland Cabinet pose for a photo in 1897. Frances B Johnston/Library of Congress A new app can turn anyone into a porn star against their will. All you need is ... <a title="In the 19th century, a man was busted for pasting photos of women’s heads on naked bodies … sound familiar?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/in-the-19th-century-a-man-was-busted-for-pasting-photos-of-womens-heads-on-naked-bodies-sound-familiar-168081/" aria-label="Read more about In the 19th century, a man was busted for pasting photos of women’s heads on naked bodies … sound familiar?">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Magdalena Plebanski, Professor of Immunology, RMIT University Shutterstock SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can sometimes cause the immune system to mistakenly attack the person’s own body. This process, known as “autoimmunity”, can damage a number of different organs. After COVID-19, a small number of patients have ... <a title="COVID-19 increases the chance of getting an autoimmune condition. Here’s what the science says so far" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/covid-19-increases-the-chance-of-getting-an-autoimmune-condition-heres-what-the-science-says-so-far-166819/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 increases the chance of getting an autoimmune condition. Here’s what the science says so far">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hadi Ghasemi, Senior Seismologist, Geoscience Australia Yesterday’s earthquake in eastern Victoria shook the ground for hundreds of kilometres around and damaged buildings as far away as Melbourne – and took many people by surprise. While Australia doesn’t compare with seismic hotspots like New Zealand and Japan, relatively ... <a title="We may never be able to predict earthquakes – but we can already know enough to be prepared" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/we-may-never-be-able-to-predict-earthquakes-but-we-can-already-know-enough-to-be-prepared-168480/" aria-label="Read more about We may never be able to predict earthquakes – but we can already know enough to be prepared">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Sharp, NHMRC Early Career Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Shutterstock Last week Facebook’s internal research revealed Instagram’s toxic effects on some young people’s body image — particularly girls. One study by Facebook of teen Instagram users in the US and UK found more than 40% of ... <a title="Instagram can make teens feel bad about their body, but parents can help. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/instagram-can-make-teens-feel-bad-about-their-body-but-parents-can-help-heres-how-168093/" aria-label="Read more about Instagram can make teens feel bad about their body, but parents can help. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Hall, Deputy Director (Research), Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University Ryohei Moriya/Yomiuri Shimbun/AP On Friday, the leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the US will meet in Washington for the first in-person Quad summit. Hosted by US President Joe Biden, the attendees are slated to discuss a ... <a title="Explainer: what exactly is the Quad and what’s on the agenda for their Washington summit?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/explainer-what-exactly-is-the-quad-and-whats-on-the-agenda-for-their-washington-summit-167988/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what exactly is the Quad and what’s on the agenda for their Washington summit?">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Heinemann, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Canterbury Ivan YudinTASS via Getty Images Legislators around the world are being asked to reconsider how to regulate the latest developments in gene technology, genome editing and gene silencing. Both the European Court of Justice and the ... <a title="Calling the latest gene technologies ‘natural’ is a semantic distraction — they must still be regulated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/calling-the-latest-gene-technologies-natural-is-a-semantic-distraction-they-must-still-be-regulated-166352/" aria-label="Read more about Calling the latest gene technologies ‘natural’ is a semantic distraction — they must still be regulated">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Baell, Research Professor in Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Discovery, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University Shutterstock Many hopes have been pinned on repurposing existing drugs, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, to treat COVID-19. However, we shouldn’t be too surprised these drugs haven’t yet lived up ... <a title="Ivermectin shows us how hard it is to use old drugs for COVID. Here’s how to do better next time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/ivermectin-shows-us-how-hard-it-is-to-use-old-drugs-for-covid-heres-how-to-do-better-next-time-168192/" aria-label="Read more about Ivermectin shows us how hard it is to use old drugs for COVID. Here’s how to do better next time">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Executive Dean, Faculty of Education, Southern Cross University The number of preschools pursuing learning through nature play is growing fast worldwide. However, the effectiveness and impacts of this approach is largely untested, and we recently completed the first large-scale study in the world to explicitly ... <a title="Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/children-learn-science-in-nature-play-long-before-they-get-to-school-classrooms-and-labs-166106/" aria-label="Read more about Children learn science in nature play long before they get to school classrooms and labs">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Davis, Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne shutter_o/Shutterstock Much has been written about the taxpayer-funded windfalls to some companies provided by the A$90 billion JobKeeper scheme. Their gains have come from grants given to them to offset projected COVID-19 losses — with no obligation ... <a title="Australia’s banks got $188 billion in cheap loans from the RBA. Now they’re funding share buybacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/23/australias-banks-got-188-billion-in-cheap-loans-from-the-rba-now-theyre-funding-share-buybacks-167890/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s banks got $188 billion in cheap loans from the RBA. Now they’re funding share buybacks">Read more</a>
