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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mehmet Ozalp, Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University Muslims are a small minority in the United States, but they may have a significant influence on the US elections. ... <a title="Who will Muslim Americans vote for in the US elections?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/who-will-muslim-americans-vote-for-in-the-us-elections-146854/" aria-label="Read more about Who will Muslim Americans vote for in the US elections?">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lara Herrero, Research Leader in Virology and Infectious Disease, Griffith University Last week we heard Queensland-based biotech company Microbio had developed a test that could, according to media reports, tell whether someone is a COVID-19 superspreader. While this may sound like an exciting prospect, there are a ... <a title="Could a test really detect if someone is a COVID-19 ‘superspreader’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/could-a-test-really-detect-if-someone-is-a-covid-19-superspreader-148627/" aria-label="Read more about Could a test really detect if someone is a COVID-19 ‘superspreader’?">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Carter, Senior lecturer, RMIT University CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz ... <a title="Climate explained: did atomic bomb tests damage our upper atmosphere?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/climate-explained-did-atomic-bomb-tests-damage-our-upper-atmosphere-146760/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: did atomic bomb tests damage our upper atmosphere?">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Mathews, Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology Book review: Witness, by Louise Milligan (Hachette). Louise Milligan’s new book, Witness, is an excoriating critique of the failures of the criminal justice system in sexual assault trials. Informed by Milligan’s two decades of experience as an ... <a title="Review: Louise Milligan’s Witness is a devastating critique of the criminal trial process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/review-louise-milligans-witness-is-a-devastating-critique-of-the-criminal-trial-process-148334/" aria-label="Read more about Review: Louise Milligan’s Witness is a devastating critique of the criminal trial process">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Mathews, Professor Emeritus, Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University Australia doesn’t yet export renewable energy. But the writing is on the wall: demand for Australia’s fossil fuel exports is likely to dwindle soon, and we must replace it at massive scale. The proposed Asian Australian Renewable Energy ... <a title="Super-charged: Australia’s biggest renewables project will change the energy game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/super-charged-australias-biggest-renewables-project-will-change-the-energy-game-148348/" aria-label="Read more about Super-charged: Australia’s biggest renewables project will change the energy game">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Brady, Research Fellow – Community Resilience, University of Melbourne The joy Melburnians feel about coming out of lockdown is palpable, but another thread is also emerging: if you don’t live in Melbourne and haven’t experienced what we’ve experienced, you can’t actually understand what we’ve been through. ... <a title="Dear Australia, your sympathy helps, but you can’t quite understand Melbourne’s lockdown experience" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/dear-australia-your-sympathy-helps-but-you-cant-quite-understand-melbournes-lockdown-experience-148900/" aria-label="Read more about Dear Australia, your sympathy helps, but you can’t quite understand Melbourne’s lockdown experience">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University American presidential elections do not, as a rule, change the calculus much for Australian foreign policy. Elections come and go, American presidents complete their terms and business continues more or less as normal. Even Richard Nixon’s resignation ... <a title="What would a Biden presidency mean for Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/what-would-a-biden-presidency-mean-for-australia-148516/" aria-label="Read more about What would a Biden presidency mean for Australia?">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Windt, Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Many feel the coronavirus pandemic has changed not just our everyday lives, but also our inner mental lives. There has been talk of a mental health pandemic, but also of lockdown brain fog when we are awake, as well as ... <a title="Our minds may be wandering more during the pandemic — and this can be a good thing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/our-minds-may-be-wandering-more-during-the-pandemic-and-this-can-be-a-good-thing-145764/" aria-label="Read more about Our minds may be wandering more during the pandemic — and this can be a good thing">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Dempster, Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW Water is more abundant on the Moon than we might have suspected, according to two papers published today in Nature Astronomy that confirm the presence of ice on and near ... <a title="Cool discovery: new studies confirm Moon has icy poles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/cool-discovery-new-studies-confirm-moon-has-icy-poles-148639/" aria-label="Read more about Cool discovery: new studies confirm Moon has icy poles">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Howard Wiseman, Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University Lasers were created 60 years ago this year, when three different laser devices were unveiled by independent laboratories in the United States. A few years later, one of these inventors called the unusual light sources “a solution seeking ... <a title="Reimagining the laser: new ideas from quantum theory could herald a revolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/reimagining-the-laser-new-ideas-from-quantum-theory-could-herald-a-revolution-147436/" aria-label="Read more about Reimagining the laser: new ideas from quantum theory could herald a revolution">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien Cahill, Associate Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney The COVID crisis has exposed the destructive consequences of an over-reliance on casual labour across the economy. Australian universities provide one of the clearest examples of this. For the past two decades, universities have leaned into ... <a title="Wage theft and casual work are built into university business models" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/wage-theft-and-casual-work-are-built-into-university-business-models-147555/" aria-label="Read more about Wage theft and casual work are built into university business models">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, La Trobe University Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews today announced the most significant easing of Melbourne’s coronavirus restrictions since the state went into “stage 3” lockdown on July 9. From 11.59pm on Tuesday night, retail, restaurants, cafes and bars will finally be able to ... <a title="Today marks the official end of the second wave in Victoria, as old freedoms return" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/26/today-marks-the-official-end-of-the-second-wave-in-victoria-as-old-freedoms-return-148626/" aria-label="Read more about Today marks the official end of the second wave in Victoria, as old freedoms return">Read more</a>
