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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Young, Kernot Professor of Engineering, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Across much of the world’s oceans, waves are getting bigger. In the Southern Ocean, where storm-driven swell can propagate halfway across the world to California, the average wave has grown about 20cm in the past 30 ... <a title="What does climate change mean for extreme waves? In 80% of the world, we don’t really know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/what-does-climate-change-mean-for-extreme-waves-in-80-of-the-world-we-dont-really-know-197526/" aria-label="Read more about What does climate change mean for extreme waves? In 80% of the world, we don’t really know">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Barros Leal Farias, Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney On Sunday January 8, radical supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and vandalised buildings that house Brazil’s congress, supreme court and presidential palace. Since then, over 1,500 people have been detained. The Governor of the Federal District, legally ... <a title="What now for Brazil? President Lula strengthened, but Bolsonaro supporters won’t go quietly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/what-now-for-brazil-president-lula-strengthened-but-bolsonaro-supporters-wont-go-quietly-197530/" aria-label="Read more about What now for Brazil? President Lula strengthened, but Bolsonaro supporters won’t go quietly">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Beckett, Senior Lecturer (Food Science and Human Nutrition), School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Pexels, CC BY New year, new you, new diet. It’s a familiar refrain. One popular dieting technique is to create a food blacklist. Quitting “carbs” or packaged foods is ... <a title="Stop hating on pasta – it actually has a healthy ratio of carbs, protein and fat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/stop-hating-on-pasta-it-actually-has-a-healthy-ratio-of-carbs-protein-and-fat-197416/" aria-label="Read more about Stop hating on pasta – it actually has a healthy ratio of carbs, protein and fat">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Anjum Naveed/AP In 2022, a third La Niña year brought much rain to Australia and Southeast Asia and dry conditions to the other side of the Pacific. These patterns were ... <a title="New report shows alarming changes in the entire global water cycle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/new-report-shows-alarming-changes-in-the-entire-global-water-cycle-197535/" aria-label="Read more about New report shows alarming changes in the entire global water cycle">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University Shutterstock The housing wealth gap between younger and older Australians is undeniably growing. Our newly published study attempts to find out how much it has grown by estimating the gap in the home equity of ... <a title="The housing wealth gap between older and younger Australians has widened alarmingly in the past 30 years. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/the-housing-wealth-gap-between-older-and-younger-australians-has-widened-alarmingly-in-the-past-30-years-heres-why-197027/" aria-label="Read more about The housing wealth gap between older and younger Australians has widened alarmingly in the past 30 years. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miles Pattenden, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University Former senior Vatican figure George Pell has died in Rome from complications following hip surgery. He was 81. Pell, often described as a conservative Catholic, was jailed for 13 months for child sexual ... <a title="George Pell: a ‘political bruiser’ whose church legacy will be overshadowed by child abuse allegations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/11/george-pell-a-political-bruiser-whose-church-legacy-will-be-overshadowed-by-child-abuse-allegations-197613/" aria-label="Read more about George Pell: a ‘political bruiser’ whose church legacy will be overshadowed by child abuse allegations">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Sparrow, Professor, Department of Philosophy; Adjunct Professor, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University Shutterstock Last Saturday night, a young woman out on the town in Brisbane saw a dog-shaped robot trotting towards her and did what many of us might have felt an urge to do: ... <a title="Is it OK to kick a robot dog?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/11/is-it-ok-to-kick-a-robot-dog-197538/" aria-label="Read more about Is it OK to kick a robot dog?">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University Tbel Abuseridze Around 1% of Australian adults have tried heroin in their lifetime and 2.7% have used pharmaceutical opioids for non-medical purposes in the past 12 months. These drugs attach to the opioid receptors in ... <a title="How does methadone work as a heroin-replacement therapy? And what about the longer-acting buprenorphine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/11/how-does-methadone-work-as-a-heroin-replacement-therapy-and-what-about-the-longer-acting-buprenorphine-189692/" aria-label="Read more about How does methadone work as a heroin-replacement therapy? And what about the longer-acting buprenorphine?">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jaelen Nicole Myers, PhD Candidate, James Cook University Shutterstock To beat the summer heat, many of us in the Southern Hemisphere are hitting the beach – and this raises our chances of encountering potentially dangerous marine life beneath the waves. So should we be worried about stingrays? ... <a title="Are stingrays actually dangerous? 3 reasons you shouldn’t fear these sea pancakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/11/are-stingrays-actually-dangerous-3-reasons-you-shouldnt-fear-these-sea-pancakes-196390/" aria-label="Read more about Are stingrays actually dangerous? 3 reasons you shouldn’t fear these sea pancakes">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Heinemann, Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, University of Canterbury Getty Images Late last year, the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) initiated a process to eliminate 170 academic jobs to cut costs. The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) found AUT’s approach breached its collective employment agreement with ... <a title="New Zealand does not offer tenure to academics, but a recent employment dispute shows it’s more than a job perk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/11/new-zealand-does-not-offer-tenure-to-academics-but-a-recent-employment-dispute-shows-its-more-than-a-job-perk-197016/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand does not offer tenure to academics, but a recent employment dispute shows it’s more than a job perk">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mia Cobb, Research Fellow, Animal Welfare Science Centre, The University of Melbourne Samantha Fortney/Unsplash, CC BY What do a little penguin, a baby rabbit, a black rat and a Krefft’s glider have in common? They’ve all been presented to me (when dead) by my animal companions. Chances ... <a title="Why do our dogs and cats bring us dead animals?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/11/why-do-our-dogs-and-cats-bring-us-dead-animals-189983/" aria-label="Read more about Why do our dogs and cats bring us dead animals?">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Morris, Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Australia is welcoming back international students in much greater numbers this year. Some predict new enrolments in 2023 could even be higher than the pre-COVID record in 2019. Student visa applications in the ... <a title="As international students flock back, they face even worse housing struggles than before COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/11/as-international-students-flock-back-they-face-even-worse-housing-struggles-than-before-covid-195364/" aria-label="Read more about As international students flock back, they face even worse housing struggles than before COVID">Read more</a>
