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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judith Armstrong, Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne In a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages. The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is too tragic and striking a figure ever to be forgotten. A famous portrait depicts ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Lydia Chukovskaya, editor, writer, heroic friend" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/hidden-women-of-history-lydia-chukovskaya-editor-writer-heroic-friend-108509/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Lydia Chukovskaya, editor, writer, heroic friend">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland The year gets off to a bang with the Quadrantids, the first of the annual big three meteor showers. Active while the Moon is new, it gives northern hemisphere observers a show to enjoy during the cold nights of ... <a title="Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/01/look-up-your-guide-to-some-of-the-best-meteor-showers-for-2019-106863/" aria-label="Read more about Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2019">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University On the morning of Monday, March 4 1996, the young treasurer in the Howard government, Peter Costello, and his press secretary, Tony Smith – now the speaker of the House of Representatives ... <a title="1996-1997 cabinet papers show how Howard and Costello faced a budget black hole" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/01/1996-1997-cabinet-papers-show-how-howard-and-costello-faced-a-budget-black-hole-107273/" aria-label="Read more about 1996-1997 cabinet papers show how Howard and Costello faced a budget black hole">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maarten De Brauwer, PhD-candidate in Marine Ecology, Curtin University We all enjoy watching animals, whether they’re our own pets, birds in the garden, or elephants on a safari during our holidays. People take pictures during many of these wildlife encounters, but not all of these photographic episodes ... <a title="Flash photography doesn’t harm seahorses – but don’t touch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/01/flash-photography-doesnt-harm-seahorses-but-dont-touch-108346/" aria-label="Read more about Flash photography doesn’t harm seahorses – but don’t touch">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Heslin, Associate Professor, UNSW Business School, UNSW Every year most of us make New Year’s resolutions. Eat healthier. Exercise regularly. Invest more in valued relationships. Learn a language. And so on. Often they are the same resolutions as last year. Why do our resolutions often so ... <a title="Three ways to achieve your New Year’s resolutions by building ‘goal infrastructure’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/01/three-ways-to-achieve-your-new-years-resolutions-by-building-goal-infrastructure-105292/" aria-label="Read more about Three ways to achieve your New Year’s resolutions by building ‘goal infrastructure’">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter McPhee, Emeritus professor, University of Melbourne In a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages. Anne-Josèphe Théroigne or Terwagne (1762–1817) was born at Marcourt, a village south of Liège in modern Belgium. From a comfortable farming family, Théroigne had a remarkably unsettled ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Théroigne de Méricourt, feminist revolutionary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/01/hidden-women-of-history-theroigne-de-mericourt-feminist-revolutionary-107802/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Théroigne de Méricourt, feminist revolutionary">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrice Rey, Associate Professor, School of Geosciences, 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 – serious, weird or wacky! You might ... <a title="Curious Kids: how do mountains form?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/31/curious-kids-how-do-mountains-form-108246/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how do mountains form?">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Enzo Palombo, Professor of Microbiology, Swinburne University of Technology Refrigeration is the most important invention in the history of food. But while commercial and home refrigerators have only been used for the past 100 years or so, people have long used cool natural environments to store foods ... <a title="Health Check: when should you throw away leftovers?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/31/health-check-when-should-you-throw-away-leftovers-92256/" aria-label="Read more about Health Check: when should you throw away leftovers?">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Lydon, Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History, University of Western Australia In a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages. In 1913, at the age of 23, Elsie Masson was travelling on a steamer near Port Essington, 150 miles from Darwin, when it ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Elsie Masson, photographer, writer, intrepid traveller" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/31/hidden-women-of-history-elsie-masson-photographer-writer-intrepid-traveller-107808/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Elsie Masson, photographer, writer, intrepid traveller">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling It’s that time of year when we all start to make promises to ourselves about how this year it’ll be different. This is the year I’ll get my health in order, exercise more, save money, cut that bad habit, do more ... <a title="Trust Me, I’m An Expert: What research says about how to stick to your New Year’s resolutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/31/trust-me-im-an-expert-what-research-says-about-how-to-stick-to-your-new-years-resolutions-107279/" aria-label="Read more about Trust Me, I’m An Expert: What research says about how to stick to your New Year’s resolutions">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Matthews, Postdoctoral Research Officer – Cognitive Neurology Laboratory, Monash University Does it ever strike you as odd that you and a friend can experience the same event at the same time, but come away with different memories of what happened? So why is it that people ... <a title="Why two people see the same thing but have different memories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/28/why-two-people-see-the-same-thing-but-have-different-memories-104327/" aria-label="Read more about Why two people see the same thing but have different memories">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bernice Plant, Assistant Lecturer, Monash University If you feel you consistently fail at your New Year’s resolutions, you are not alone. Despite our good intentions, we’re pretty poor at changing our own behaviour. We continue to smoke, eat or drink too much, and exercise too little, all ... <a title="Making New Year’s resolutions personal could actually make them stick" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/28/making-new-years-resolutions-personal-could-actually-make-them-stick-106780/" aria-label="Read more about Making New Year’s resolutions personal could actually make them stick">Read more</a>
