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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Wolpe, Non-resident Senior Fellow, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney The Democrats have been under intense pressure to find an effective way to challenge US President Donald Trump without control of either chamber of Congress or a de facto opposition leader. They may have just ... <a title="US Senator Cory Booker just spoke for 25 hours in Congress. What was he trying to achieve?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/us-senator-cory-booker-just-spoke-for-25-hours-in-congress-what-was-he-trying-to-achieve-253616/" aria-label="Read more about US Senator Cory Booker just spoke for 25 hours in Congress. What was he trying to achieve?">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lesley Russell, Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney AshTproductions/Shutterstock Australian researchers are reeling from the international reach of the Trump administration’s ideological war on science and research, which threatens local research projects that receive funding from the United States National ... <a title="The Medical Research Future Fund has grown far beyond its target. Why is so much of the money unused?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/the-medical-research-future-fund-has-grown-far-beyond-its-target-why-is-so-much-of-the-money-unused-253338/" aria-label="Read more about The Medical Research Future Fund has grown far beyond its target. Why is so much of the money unused?">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Camp, Senior Lecturer, School of Music, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Warner Bros Discovery The last few decades have seen many attempts to make musical TV shows. Some of them applied the aesthetics of musicals (where people spontaneously sing and dance) to the television form, ... <a title="New NZ TV series Happiness gives us an engaging musical peak behind the amateur theatre curtain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/new-nz-tv-series-happiness-gives-us-an-engaging-musical-peak-behind-the-amateur-theatre-curtain-253025/" aria-label="Read more about New NZ TV series Happiness gives us an engaging musical peak behind the amateur theatre curtain">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raffaele F Ciriello, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Kathryn Conrad/Better Images of AI, CC BY In 2023, the World Health Organization declared loneliness and social isolation as a pressing health threat. This crisis is driving millions to seek companionship from artificial intelligence (AI) ... <a title="An AI companion chatbot is inciting self-harm, sexual violence and terror attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/an-ai-companion-chatbot-is-inciting-self-harm-sexual-violence-and-terror-attacks-252625/" aria-label="Read more about An AI companion chatbot is inciting self-harm, sexual violence and terror attacks">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Jeffries, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University NicoElNino/Shutterstock More than five years since COVID was declared a pandemic, we’re still facing the regular emergence of new variants of the virus, SARS-CoV-2. The latest variant on the rise is LP.8.1. It’s increasing in Australia, making up ... <a title="A new COVID variant is on the rise. Here’s what to know about LP.8.1" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/a-new-covid-variant-is-on-the-rise-heres-what-to-know-about-lp-8-1-253237/" aria-label="Read more about A new COVID variant is on the rise. Here’s what to know about LP.8.1">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Yao, Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington B.Zhou/Shutterstock China’s economic rocket ride appears to be ending – or slowing, at least. Growth has declined from 8.4% in 2021 to 4.5% today, youth unemployment has climbed to 16.9%, and cities ... <a title="Living in ‘garbage time’: when 500 million Chinese change their spending habits, the world feels it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/living-in-garbage-time-when-500-million-chinese-change-their-spending-habits-the-world-feels-it-253341/" aria-label="Read more about Living in ‘garbage time’: when 500 million Chinese change their spending habits, the world feels it">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirk Dodd, Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney Brett Boardman/Sport For Jove Some say Shakespeare invented the “history play” – but he had a lot of help. Shakespeare was mainly writing comedies in the early 1590s when he is believed to have coauthored the play ... <a title="Could you watch 8 plays in 12 hours? How The Player Kings creates binge-worthy Shakespeare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/could-you-watch-8-plays-in-12-hours-how-the-player-kings-creates-binge-worthy-shakespeare-252042/" aria-label="Read more about Could you watch 8 plays in 12 hours? How The Player Kings creates binge-worthy Shakespeare">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University Lorenzooooo/Shutterstock Scent is how dogs largely experience the world, a lot like the way we humans rely on sight. We know little about how dogs interpret scent, but thanks to a recent study, we may be getting ... <a title="Dogs see their world through smell – and scientists are starting to translate it like never before" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/dogs-see-their-world-through-smell-and-scientists-are-starting-to-translate-it-like-never-before-252659/" aria-label="Read more about Dogs see their world through smell – and scientists are starting to translate it like never before">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Wilcockson, Research assistant, University of Glasgow Until recently, fans of William Wordsworth could visit his final home, Rydal Mount and Gardens, nestled in the heart of England’s green and beautiful Lake District. Renowned as one of the most prominent British poets, the works of Wordsworth (1770-1850) ... <a title="William Wordsworth’s last home is up for sale – returning it to a private residence would be a loss for the UK’s cultural heritage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/william-wordsworths-last-home-is-up-for-sale-returning-it-to-a-private-residence-would-be-a-loss-for-the-uks-cultural-heritage-253561/" aria-label="Read more about William Wordsworth’s last home is up for sale – returning it to a private residence would be a loss for the UK’s cultural heritage">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Riehle, Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London Aleksandr Dugin, sometimes referred to as “Putin’s brain” because of his ideological influence on Russian politics, endorsed the policies of Donald Trump in a CNN interview aired on March 30. Dugin said Trump’s America has ... <a title="‘Putin’s brain’: Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian ultra-nationalist who has endorsed Donald Trump" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/putins-brain-aleksandr-dugin-the-russian-ultra-nationalist-who-has-endorsed-donald-trump-253466/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Putin’s brain’: Aleksandr Dugin, the Russian ultra-nationalist who has endorsed Donald Trump">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felix Arndt, Professor and John F. Wood Chair in Entrepreneurship, University of Guelph When United States President Donald Trump first floated the idea of annexing Canada, many observers rolled their eyes. The common assumption was that this proposal, like much of Trump’s bombast, amounted to little more ... <a title="Canada a 51st state? Here’s how American annexation could actually favour Canada" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/canada-a-51st-state-heres-how-american-annexation-could-actually-favour-canada-251547/" aria-label="Read more about Canada a 51st state? Here’s how American annexation could actually favour Canada">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giulio Ponte, Research Engineer at the Centre for Automotive Safety Research, University of Adelaide Serhii Milekhin/Shutterstock When a vehicle and a cyclist collide, the cyclist almost always emerges worse off. Globally, more than 40,000 cyclists are killed and millions more seriously injured in road crashes. In most ... <a title="‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the road" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/02/sorry-mate-i-didnt-see-you-when-drivers-look-but-dont-see-cyclists-on-the-road-244935/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Sorry mate, I didn’t see you’: when drivers look but don’t see cyclists on the road">Read more</a>
