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March 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ritesh Chugh, Senior Lecturer – Information Systems and Analysis, CQUniversity Australia If Apple and other tech companies have their way, it will only become harder to have our phones and other devices repaired by third-party businesses. Smartphones and many other tech devices are increasingly being designed in ... <a title="Screwed over: how Apple and others are making it impossible to get a cheap and easy phone repair" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/screwed-over-how-apple-and-others-are-making-it-impossible-to-get-a-cheap-and-easy-phone-repair-156871/" aria-label="Read more about Screwed over: how Apple and others are making it impossible to get a cheap and easy phone repair">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ameena Leah Payne, eLearning Advisor, Swinburne University of Technology “I completed high school 20 years ago and wanted a ‘little break’ before furthering my study. That ‘little break’ was extended as my family grew. Life happened, and I never quite found the right time to keep my ... <a title="‘A lot of us can relate to struggling to keep on top of everything.’ This is what mature-age students need from online higher education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/a-lot-of-us-can-relate-to-struggling-to-keep-on-top-of-everything-this-is-what-mature-age-students-need-from-online-higher-education-155201/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A lot of us can relate to struggling to keep on top of everything.’ This is what mature-age students need from online higher education">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Best to avoid the media just now if you’re squeamish about seeing needles. Political and other notables are rushing to bare arms for the jab, encouraging confidence in the COVID vaccines. Commendable example-setting of course. But just now the issue ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison grapples with slow vaccine rollout, end of JobKeeper and ministerial crises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/grattan-on-friday-morrison-grapples-with-slow-vaccine-rollout-end-of-jobkeeper-and-ministerial-crises-156975/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison grapples with slow vaccine rollout, end of JobKeeper and ministerial crises">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eleanor Gordon, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University Resources critical to peacebuilding and to countries vulnerable to conflict have been significantly reduced as a result of COVID-19. In conflict zones from Ukraine to Syria, hundreds of thousands of people are “suffering in silence”. These ... <a title="As the world’s attention and money are absorbed by the COVID pandemic, peacebuilding suffers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/as-the-worlds-attention-and-money-are-absorbed-by-the-covid-pandemic-peacebuilding-suffers-156577/" aria-label="Read more about As the world’s attention and money are absorbed by the COVID pandemic, peacebuilding suffers">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shivanthan Shanthikumar, Respiratory Medicine Fellow, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute It’s time to leave the playground but your 12-month-old daughter doesn’t want to. She gets angry, cries out loudly, breathing all the way out and then holds her breath. She turns blue around the mouth and faints. This ... <a title="What are breath-holding spells, the common phenomenon that causes children to faint?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/what-are-breath-holding-spells-the-common-phenomenon-that-causes-children-to-faint-131677/" aria-label="Read more about What are breath-holding spells, the common phenomenon that causes children to faint?">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frederic Kiernan, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne Review: Max Richter’s Sleep, directed by Natalie Johns. Music does things. For German-born, English-raised composer Max Richter, music is a “vehicle for travelling through the world, for getting through life”. So he says in the film Max Richter’s Sleep, ... <a title="Max Richter’s Sleep, a filmed antidote to modern life with music to dream by" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/max-richters-sleep-a-filmed-antidote-to-modern-life-with-music-to-dream-by-156491/" aria-label="Read more about Max Richter’s Sleep, a filmed antidote to modern life with music to dream by">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Christian Porter has unequivocally denied the historic rape allegations levelled against him, and says he is determined to stay in his job as attorney-general. Both Scott Morrison and Porter are adamant the “rule of law” in this country places the ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Fleur Johns on the rule of law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/politics-with-michelle-grattan-fleur-johns-on-the-rule-of-law-156944/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Fleur Johns on the rule of law">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Davis, Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne The vast arsenal of fiscal, monetary and legal measures used by Australian governments to offset the COVID-induced economic crisis have worked well. They did not prevent a recession (popularly defined as two quarters of negative GDP growth) ... <a title="Hard bump ahead? Drop in insolvencies and bankruptcies is a ticking time bomb" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/hard-bump-ahead-drop-in-insolvencies-and-bankruptcies-is-a-ticking-time-bomb-155744/" aria-label="Read more about Hard bump ahead? Drop in insolvencies and bankruptcies is a ticking time bomb">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Long, Strategic Professor in Palaeontology, Flinders University The giant prehistoric Carcharocles megalodon (or Otodus megalodon for some researchers) was the largest predatory shark to ever swim in Earth’s seas. Scientific evidence points to megalodon having lived between 16 million and 2.6 million years ago, going extinct ... <a title="Making a megalodon: the evolving science behind estimating the size of the largest ever killer shark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/making-a-megalodon-the-evolving-science-behind-estimating-the-size-of-the-largest-ever-killer-shark-155475/" aria-label="Read more about Making a megalodon: the evolving science behind estimating the size of the largest ever killer shark">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia Myanmar’s military appears to be testing out a range of vicious tactics in the hope something will stem the protest movements that have embroiled the country since the coup in early February. The military crossed a grim threshold last ... <a title="As killings, beatings and disappearances escalate, what’s the end game in Myanmar?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/as-killings-beatings-and-disappearances-escalate-whats-the-end-game-in-myanmar-156752/" aria-label="Read more about As killings, beatings and disappearances escalate, what’s the end game in Myanmar?">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute One year ago today, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the first caused by a coronavirus. As we enter year two of the pandemic, let’s remind ourselves of some sobering statistics. So far, there have been ... <a title="After a year of pain, here’s how the COVID-19 pandemic could play out in 2021 and beyond" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/after-a-year-of-pain-heres-how-the-covid-19-pandemic-could-play-out-in-2021-and-beyond-156380/" aria-label="Read more about After a year of pain, here’s how the COVID-19 pandemic could play out in 2021 and beyond">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Culum Brown, Professor, Macquarie University Michael, aged 14, asks: If the faster part of human evolution is over, and squids and octopuses continue to evolve, could there be an apocalypse where the cephalopods take over the world? If they continue to get smarter, octopuses would be much ... <a title="Curious Kids: could octopuses evolve until they take over the world and travel to space?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/curious-kids-could-octopuses-evolve-until-they-take-over-the-world-and-travel-to-space-156493/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: could octopuses evolve until they take over the world and travel to space?">Read more</a>
