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February 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Barclay, ARC Future Fellow and Professor, Macquarie University Wikimedia “1,000 Letters and 15,000 Kisses” screamed the headline in an 1898 edition of the English newspaper, the Halifax Evening Courier. Harriet Ann McLean, a 32-year-old laundry maid, was suing Francis Charles Matthews, a green grocer, for reneging ... <a title="X has been used to represent love and kisses for centuries. But how did it start?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/x-has-been-used-to-represent-love-and-kisses-for-centuries-but-how-did-it-start-248124/" aria-label="Read more about X has been used to represent love and kisses for centuries. But how did it start?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lena Wang, Associate Professor in Management, RMIT University Supplied/AppleTV+ The highly anticipated season two of Severance, released in weekly instalments, has continued to draw interest among viewers around the world. A gripping psychological thriller, this TV series provides an extreme illustration of the compartmentalising of work and ... <a title="TV show Severance looks at workplace personalities. There are healthier ways to separate home and office life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/tv-show-severance-looks-at-workplace-personalities-there-are-healthier-ways-to-separate-home-and-office-life-249360/" aria-label="Read more about TV show Severance looks at workplace personalities. There are healthier ways to separate home and office life">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Brown, Professor in Philosophy, Director of the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland Nadia Piet + AIxDESIGN & Archival Images of AI/Better Images of AI, CC BY-SA There is only so much thinking most of us can do in our heads. Try ... <a title="Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world’s biggest AI companies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/is-ai-making-us-stupider-maybe-according-to-one-of-the-worlds-biggest-ai-companies-249586/" aria-label="Read more about Is AI making us stupider? Maybe, according to one of the world’s biggest AI companies">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia VLADIMIR VK/Shutterstock Conducting scientific studies is never easy, and there are often major disasters along the way. A researcher accidentally spills coffee on a keyboard, destroying the data. Or one of the chemicals used in the ... <a title="3 statistical stuff-ups that made everyday items look healthier (or riskier) than they really are" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/3-statistical-stuff-ups-that-made-everyday-items-look-healthier-or-riskier-than-they-really-are-249367/" aria-label="Read more about 3 statistical stuff-ups that made everyday items look healthier (or riskier) than they really are">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Robertson, Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Harley Kingston, Shutterstock Hot on the heels of the warmest spring on record, Australia is baking through another scorching summer. Heatwaves around the country contributed to the second-warmest January on record. Hot, dry, windy weather again swept ... <a title="Want to make sure you don’t swelter in your next home? Check these 12 features before you rent or buy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/want-to-make-sure-you-dont-swelter-in-your-next-home-check-these-12-features-before-you-rent-or-buy-249494/" aria-label="Read more about Want to make sure you don’t swelter in your next home? Check these 12 features before you rent or buy">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jude MacArthur, Senior Lecturer, School of Critical Studies in Education, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Phil Walter/Getty Images Seven new charter schools are opening their gates, and ACT leader and Associate Education Minister David Seymour – the politician responsible for their existence – has been singing ... <a title="As new charter schools open, we still know too little about how they worked last time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/as-new-charter-schools-open-we-still-know-too-little-about-how-they-worked-last-time-249474/" aria-label="Read more about As new charter schools open, we still know too little about how they worked last time">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Kilby, PhD candidate in Education, Monash University Charles Parker/ Pexels , CC BY If your young child asks “what’s the meaning of life?” you might laugh it off (how cute!) or freeze in panic (where do I even begin?). It’s tempting to dismiss these big questions ... <a title="‘Mum, what’s the meaning of life?’ How to talk about philosophy with little kids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/mum-whats-the-meaning-of-life-how-to-talk-about-philosophy-with-little-kids-248231/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Mum, what’s the meaning of life?’ How to talk about philosophy with little kids">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When parliamentarians left Canberra on Thursday after the fortnight sitting, federal politics had the air of an uneasy waiting game. Waiting for the election date, although the campaign has been running for months. Waiting to know whether there will be ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese and Trump put Australia in holding patterns on election timing and tariffs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/grattan-on-friday-albanese-and-trump-put-australia-in-holding-patterns-on-election-timing-and-tariffs-249843/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese and Trump put Australia in holding patterns on election timing and tariffs">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne Public transport in Queensland now costs just 50 cents. Yet in the first six months of the trial, it’s been revealed that thousands of commuters were fined for fare evasion. More ... <a title="Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/heres-why-some-people-still-evade-public-transport-fares-even-when-theyre-50-cents-249739/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Harris Rimmer, Professor, Griffith Law School, Griffith University Two federal politicians from opposing camps reached across the aisle this week to promote a valuable cause – the wellbeing of future Australian generations. Independent MP Sophie Scamps tabled the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill 2025, which was ... <a title="Short-term politics keeps stalling long-term fixes. This bill offers a way forward" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/short-term-politics-keeps-stalling-long-term-fixes-this-bill-offers-a-way-forward-249598/" aria-label="Read more about Short-term politics keeps stalling long-term fixes. This bill offers a way forward">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Younger, Lecturer in Southern Ocean Vertebrate Ecology, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Australia’s Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have headed to one of our three bases – Mawson, Davis and Casey – as ... <a title="This is Australia’s only icebreaker. Here’s why experts say we need another" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/this-is-australias-only-icebreaker-heres-why-experts-say-we-need-another-249714/" aria-label="Read more about This is Australia’s only icebreaker. Here’s why experts say we need another">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eliane Deschrijver, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Sydney Circles in a Circle (1923) Wassily Kandinsky / Philadelphia Museum of Art / The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 Imagine you are asked to give a small amount of money to a stranger. It’s ... <a title="Heads vs tails? A simple coin flip can be enough to change how we treat others" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/heads-vs-tails-a-simple-coin-flip-can-be-enough-to-change-how-we-treat-others-249611/" aria-label="Read more about Heads vs tails? A simple coin flip can be enough to change how we treat others">Read more</a>
