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January 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cris Brack, Associate professor, Australian National University It’s the most wonderful time of the year: deciding what to do with your Christmas tree. If you bought a plastic tree, you might have already made the commitment to store and reuse it next year. However, if you were ... <a title="Now Christmas is done, what on earth should you do with the tree?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/04/now-christmas-is-done-what-on-earth-should-you-do-with-the-tree-108756/" aria-label="Read more about Now Christmas is done, what on earth should you do with the tree?">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Donovan, Urban Designer and Sessional Lecturer, La Trobe University Just as our food diet affects our physical and emotional health, so does our “experience diet”. This is the day-to-day mix of the things we do, see, hear and feel. And, just like our food diet, the ... <a title="Is your ‘experience diet’ making you unwell?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/04/is-your-experience-diet-making-you-unwell-105370/" aria-label="Read more about Is your ‘experience diet’ making you unwell?">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Antonia Finnane, Professor of Chinese History, University of Melbourne In a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages. There are “hidden women” in history who deserve to be known for the same reasons as we know about “great men”. The film Hidden Figures ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Hop Lin Jong, a Chinese immigrant in the early days of White Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/04/hidden-women-of-history-hop-lin-jong-a-chinese-immigrant-in-the-early-days-of-white-australia-108744/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Hop Lin Jong, a Chinese immigrant in the early days of White Australia">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Chapple, Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington Two hundred and fifty years ago this year, James Cook’s ship the Endeavour arrived off the eastern coast of New Zealand. The following circumnavigation marked the beginning of ongoing European contact with the indigenous ... <a title="250 years after Captain Cook’s arrival, we still can’t be sure how many Māori lived in Aotearoa at the time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/03/250-years-after-captain-cooks-arrival-we-still-cant-be-sure-how-many-maori-lived-in-aotearoa-at-the-time-107707/" aria-label="Read more about 250 years after Captain Cook’s arrival, we still can’t be sure how many Māori lived in Aotearoa at the time">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, Associate Professor of Ancient History, University of Melbourne On his 2012 honeymoon to Rome, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg took so many photos of the Roman Emperor Augustus’s sculptures that his wife joked it was like there were three people on the honeymoon. The couple ... <a title="Mark Zuckerberg’s admiration for Emperor Augustus is misplaced. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/03/mark-zuckerbergs-admiration-for-emperor-augustus-is-misplaced-heres-why-108172/" aria-label="Read more about Mark Zuckerberg’s admiration for Emperor Augustus is misplaced. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dr Suzanne Hudson, School Director, Professional Experience, Southern Cross University Teaching is hard. Staying in the teaching profession can sometimes be even harder. There’s a lack of national data about attrition, but the Queensland College of Teachers estimates anywhere between 8-50% of new teachers leave the profession ... <a title="Six ways to support new teachers to stay in the profession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/03/six-ways-to-support-new-teachers-to-stay-in-the-profession-106934/" aria-label="Read more about Six ways to support new teachers to stay in the profession">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Broomhall, Professor of History, University of Western Australia In a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages. A 17th-century dolls’ house must number among the more unusual source “texts” through which we can find out about women’s lives in the past. Yet, ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Petronella Oortman and her giant dolls’ house" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/03/hidden-women-of-history-petronella-oortman-and-her-giant-dolls-house-108248/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Petronella Oortman and her giant dolls’ house">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Davina Jackson, Honorary Academic, School of Architecture, University of Kent Today’s smart cities rely on networks: squillions of semiconductor devices that constantly pulse electromagnetic waves (light and radio frequencies) through telecommunications satellites. Data Cities, by the author. Lund Humphries (2018), Author provided Another genre of satellites, equipped ... <a title="Digital Earth: the paradigm now shaping our world’s data cities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/digital-earth-the-paradigm-now-shaping-our-worlds-data-cities-104938/" aria-label="Read more about Digital Earth: the paradigm now shaping our world’s data cities">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Kindt, Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome: find out how to enter ... <a title="Curious Kids: who were the Spartans?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/curious-kids-who-were-the-spartans-108606/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: who were the Spartans?">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Tuffin, Research Fellow, University of New England It’s our experience that most people think archaeology mainly means digging in the dirt. Admit to strangers that you are of the archaeological persuasion, and the follow-up question is invariably “what’s the best thing you’ve found?”. Start to tell ... <a title="Why archaeology is so much more than just digging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/why-archaeology-is-so-much-more-than-just-digging-108679/" aria-label="Read more about Why archaeology is so much more than just digging">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Adjunct Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia The warm days of summer are almost upon us. Nudity on some Australian beaches is inevitable. But exactly how much of our flesh can we bare, and when, and where? It should surprise no-one ... <a title="Avoid a bum steer this summer: here’s what Australian law says about public nudity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/avoid-a-bum-steer-this-summer-heres-what-australian-law-says-about-public-nudity-107525/" aria-label="Read more about Avoid a bum steer this summer: here’s what Australian law says about public nudity">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marnie Campbell, Chevron Harry Butler Chair in Biosecurity and Environmental Science, Murdoch University Our beaches are our summer playgrounds, yet beach litter and marine debris injures one-fifth of beach users, particularly children and older people. Our research, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, found ... <a title="Forget sharks… here’s why you are more likely to be injured by litter at the beach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/forget-sharks-heres-why-you-are-more-likely-to-be-injured-by-litter-at-the-beach-109002/" aria-label="Read more about Forget sharks… here’s why you are more likely to be injured by litter at the beach">Read more</a>
