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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Corneel Vandelanotte, Professorial Research Fellow: Physical Activity and Health, CQUniversity Australia Regular walking produces many health benefits, including reducing our risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and depression. Best of all, it’s free, we can do it anywhere and, for most of us, it’s relatively easy ... <a title="Health Check: do we really need to take 10,000 steps a day?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/health-check-do-we-really-need-to-take-10-000-steps-a-day-109079/" aria-label="Read more about Health Check: do we really need to take 10,000 steps a day?">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Cole, PhD candidate, University of Otago Ever since Charles Darwin’s voyage to the Galapagos, biologists have been trying to figure out what determines the number of species that exist at any point in time. Our research, published today, provides an answer to this question, at least ... <a title="Old bones reveal new evidence about the role of islands in penguin evolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/old-bones-reveal-new-evidence-about-the-role-of-islands-in-penguin-evolution-110959/" aria-label="Read more about Old bones reveal new evidence about the role of islands in penguin evolution">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James H. Liu, Professor of Psychology, Massey University Globally, there has been a crisis of confidence in the promises of liberal democracy in recent years. In the United States, the president wants to build a border wall. The United Kingdom is agonising over Brexit. The leaders of ... <a title="The Treaty of Waitangi and its influence on identity politics in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/the-treaty-of-waitangi-and-its-influence-on-identity-politics-in-new-zealand-110991/" aria-label="Read more about The Treaty of Waitangi and its influence on identity politics in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Octavia Bryant, Doctoral Candidate, National School of Arts, Australian Catholic University No doubt thanks to Donald Trump, Brexit, and a string of anti-establishment leaders and parties in Europe, Latin America and Asia, everyone seems to be talking about populism. But populism is nothing new. It’s long accompanied ... <a title="What actually is populism? And why does it have a bad reputation?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/what-actually-is-populism-and-why-does-it-have-a-bad-reputation-109874/" aria-label="Read more about What actually is populism? And why does it have a bad reputation?">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Rogers, Professor in Clinical Ethics, Macquarie University Scientist He Jiankui’s claimed use of the genetic tool CRISPR to edit the genomes of twin girls led to international condemnation. His actions have focused a spotlight on research ethics – and what the consequences should be when scientists ... <a title="Whose hearts, livers and lungs are transplanted in China? Origins must be clear in human organ research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/whose-hearts-livers-and-lungs-are-transplanted-in-china-origins-must-be-clear-in-human-organ-research-108077/" aria-label="Read more about Whose hearts, livers and lungs are transplanted in China? Origins must be clear in human organ research">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sandra Morrison, Associate Professor, Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Waikato The Treaty of Waitangi is New Zealand’s foundation document. On February 6, 1840, the treaty was signed by representatives of the British Crown and Māori chiefs who acted on behalf of their hapū (sub-tribes). ... <a title="Explainer: the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/explainer-the-significance-of-the-treaty-of-waitangi-110982/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: the significance of the Treaty of Waitangi">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Brown, Chief Science Storyteller, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute If it’s not you, perhaps it’s someone you know. You don’t look infertile, you don’t feel infertile, but after many months (or years) of trying to start a family, followed by several months of monitoring ... <a title="Considering using IVF to have a baby? Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/considering-using-ivf-to-have-a-baby-heres-what-you-need-to-know-108910/" aria-label="Read more about Considering using IVF to have a baby? Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Senior Lecturer and Course Director of Postgraduate Studies in Education, Charles Sturt University School is back, so students new to secondary school will be beginning to adapt to their new school environments. This adaption commonly involves suddenly having multiple classes with different teachers and locations, ... <a title="Adapting to secondary school: why the physical environment is important too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/adapting-to-secondary-school-why-the-physical-environment-is-important-too-110894/" aria-label="Read more about Adapting to secondary school: why the physical environment is important too">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathleen Flanagan, Research Fellow & Deputy Director, HACRU, University of Tasmania We know that safe, adequate, affordable and appropriate housing is essential for our health, well-being and social and economic security. However, even as house prices subside from recent record highs, many Australians struggle to obtain the ... <a title="Is social housing essential infrastructure? How we think about it does matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/is-social-housing-essential-infrastructure-how-we-think-about-it-does-matter-110777/" aria-label="Read more about Is social housing essential infrastructure? How we think about it does matter">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathon Louth, Research Fellow, The Australian Alliance for Social Enterprise, University of South Australia It’s been an enormous year for the financial services industry. First there was a Productivity Commission report calling for major changes to superannuation, then a Senate inquiry into financial services targeted at Australians ... <a title="Banking Royal Commission: How Hayne failed remote Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/banking-royal-commission-how-hayne-failed-remote-australia-111100/" aria-label="Read more about Banking Royal Commission: How Hayne failed remote Australia">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Carmody, Academic Specialist, Latin America, University of Melbourne Imagine going to the store and finding that nothing has a price tag on it. Instead you take it to the cashier and they calculate the price. What you pay could be twice as much, or more, than ... <a title="How public ineptitude and private enterprise combined to give Venezuela hyperinflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/how-public-ineptitude-and-private-enterprise-combined-to-give-venezuela-hyperinflation-102483/" aria-label="Read more about How public ineptitude and private enterprise combined to give Venezuela hyperinflation">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alicia Byrnes, PhD Candidate and Sessional Tutor, Screen and Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne On the morning I went to see Mimi Leder’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic, On the Basis of Sex, Fox News accidentally aired a graphic reporting Ginsburg’s death. Representatives for the channel immediately apologised ... <a title="Feminist hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been stifled by a new patriarchal construct: the cinema" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/06/feminist-hero-ruth-bader-ginsburg-has-been-stifled-by-a-new-patriarchal-construct-the-cinema-109956/" aria-label="Read more about Feminist hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been stifled by a new patriarchal construct: the cinema">Read more</a>
