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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcel Scharth, Lecturer in Business Analytics, University of Sydney OpenAI executive Mira Murati launching GPT-4o. OpenAI Earlier this week OpenAI launched GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), a new version of the artificial intelligence (AI) system powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot. GPT-4o is promoted as a step towards more ... <a title="ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/chatgpt-is-now-better-than-ever-at-faking-human-emotion-and-behaviour-230254/" aria-label="Read more about ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Treasure McGuire, Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Mater Health SEQ in conjoint appointment as Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Bond University and as Associate Professor (Clinical), The University of Queensland Speedkingz/Shutterstock Menopause is a natural biological process that marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years, typically between 45 ... <a title="Menopause can bring increased cholesterol levels and other heart risks. Here’s why and what to do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/menopause-can-bring-increased-cholesterol-levels-and-other-heart-risks-heres-why-and-what-to-do-about-it-228010/" aria-label="Read more about Menopause can bring increased cholesterol levels and other heart risks. Here’s why and what to do about it">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University For decades, Australia has exported uranium – but not used it, other than in the Lucas Heights research reactor. But change is coming. We now face a rapidly deepening commitment to the nuclear industry, through nuclear submarines ... <a title="Nuclear subs are coming to Australia. Now the Coalition wants reactors, too. We’re not ready for it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/nuclear-subs-are-coming-to-australia-now-the-coalition-wants-reactors-too-were-not-ready-for-it-230117/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear subs are coming to Australia. Now the Coalition wants reactors, too. We’re not ready for it">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam D Hines, Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology Sergey Mironov/Shutterstock Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it’s likely at some point in our lives we’ll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anaesthesia. Even though it is one ... <a title="After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anaesthesia works in the brain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/after-180-years-new-clues-are-revealing-just-how-general-anaesthesia-works-in-the-brain-229713/" aria-label="Read more about After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anaesthesia works in the brain">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Graffam, PhD Candidate in Theatre, Monash University Gianna Rizzo/Malthouse Music pumps; lights pulsate; two sweaty bodies sway together, touching, breathing in each other’s scent. A male body framed by downlight restlessly shifts between stances and gestures. He undresses. The intensity of music, movement and light builds ... <a title="Homo Pentecostus: on queer intimacies, religion, ancestry and the human need for connection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/homo-pentecostus-on-queer-intimacies-religion-ancestry-and-the-human-need-for-connection-228014/" aria-label="Read more about Homo Pentecostus: on queer intimacies, religion, ancestry and the human need for connection">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sandra van der Laan, Professor of Accounting, University of Sydney Mtaya/Shutterstock At some point, you or someone else will need to make a decision about your “send-off”. Most Australians die in an institution, such as a hospital or aged care facility. This situation often puts pressure on ... <a title="Want to be buried on your own land, at sea or in a forest? A guide to unconventional send-offs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/want-to-be-buried-on-your-own-land-at-sea-or-in-a-forest-a-guide-to-unconventional-send-offs-227457/" aria-label="Read more about Want to be buried on your own land, at sea or in a forest? A guide to unconventional send-offs">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aruna Sathanapally, Chief Executive, Grattan Institute, Grattan Institute A central focus of this week’s budget is the treasury’s forecast for inflation. By this time next year, inflation is projected to be back within the Reserve Bank’s 2-3% target range. Inflation has dropped dramatically from its peak of ... <a title="At the heart of the budget is the sad truth the economy is weak. That’s one reason inflation will fall" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/at-the-heart-of-the-budget-is-the-sad-truth-the-economy-is-weak-thats-one-reason-inflation-will-fall-230108/" aria-label="Read more about At the heart of the budget is the sad truth the economy is weak. That’s one reason inflation will fall">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yolanda van Heezik, Professor of Ecology, University of Otago Getty Images Cities across Aotearoa New Zealand are trying to solve a housing crisis, with increasing residential density a key solution. But not everyone is happy about the resulting loss of natural habitats and biodiversity. Some homeowners in ... <a title="Denser housing can be greener too – here’s how NZ can build better for biodiversity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/denser-housing-can-be-greener-too-heres-how-nz-can-build-better-for-biodiversity-229472/" aria-label="Read more about Denser housing can be greener too – here’s how NZ can build better for biodiversity">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Reeve, Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute WDG Photo/Shutterstock For years, the electricity sector has been the poster child for emissions cuts in Australia. The sector achieved a stunning 26% drop in emissions over the past 15 years, while other sectors have hardly ... <a title="Clean energy slump – why Australia’s renewables revolution is behind schedule, and how to fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/clean-energy-slump-why-australias-renewables-revolution-is-behind-schedule-and-how-to-fix-it-229514/" aria-label="Read more about Clean energy slump – why Australia’s renewables revolution is behind schedule, and how to fix it">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy J. Ralph, Associate Professor, Macquarie University The pyramids at Giza, like dozens of others, are located several kilometres west of the current path of the Nile. Alex Cimbal / Shutterstock The largest field of pyramids in Egypt – consisting of 31 pyramids built over a millennium, ... <a title="We mapped a lost branch of the Nile River – which may be the key to a longstanding mystery of the pyramids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/we-mapped-a-lost-branch-of-the-nile-river-which-may-be-the-key-to-a-longstanding-mystery-of-the-pyramids-230092/" aria-label="Read more about We mapped a lost branch of the Nile River – which may be the key to a longstanding mystery of the pyramids">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Diepstraten, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute ABO PHOTOGRAPHY/Shutterstock Receiving a cancer diagnosis is life-changing and can cause a range of concerns about ongoing health. Fear of cancer returning is one of the top health concerns. And managing ... <a title="If I’m diagnosed with one cancer, am I likely to get another?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/if-im-diagnosed-with-one-cancer-am-i-likely-to-get-another-226386/" aria-label="Read more about If I’m diagnosed with one cancer, am I likely to get another?">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When he was opposition leader, Bill Shorten faced Coalition criticism for attacking “the top end of town”, a phrase he used in his 2019 budget reply. Now Peter Dutton is finding the line “billions of dollars for billionaires” has a ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Peter Dutton’s alternative – lower migration, more homes, and a populist swipe at billionaires" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/grattan-on-friday-peter-duttons-alternative-lower-migration-more-homes-and-a-populist-swipe-at-billionaires-230206/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Peter Dutton’s alternative – lower migration, more homes, and a populist swipe at billionaires">Read more</a>
