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January 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Broomhall, Professor of History, University of Western Australia In a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages. A 17th-century dolls’ house must number among the more unusual source “texts” through which we can find out about women’s lives in the past. Yet, ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Petronella Oortman and her giant dolls’ house" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/03/hidden-women-of-history-petronella-oortman-and-her-giant-dolls-house-108248/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Petronella Oortman and her giant dolls’ house">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Davina Jackson, Honorary Academic, School of Architecture, University of Kent Today’s smart cities rely on networks: squillions of semiconductor devices that constantly pulse electromagnetic waves (light and radio frequencies) through telecommunications satellites. Data Cities, by the author. Lund Humphries (2018), Author provided Another genre of satellites, equipped ... <a title="Digital Earth: the paradigm now shaping our world’s data cities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/digital-earth-the-paradigm-now-shaping-our-worlds-data-cities-104938/" aria-label="Read more about Digital Earth: the paradigm now shaping our world’s data cities">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Kindt, Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome: find out how to enter ... <a title="Curious Kids: who were the Spartans?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/curious-kids-who-were-the-spartans-108606/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: who were the Spartans?">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Tuffin, Research Fellow, University of New England It’s our experience that most people think archaeology mainly means digging in the dirt. Admit to strangers that you are of the archaeological persuasion, and the follow-up question is invariably “what’s the best thing you’ve found?”. Start to tell ... <a title="Why archaeology is so much more than just digging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/why-archaeology-is-so-much-more-than-just-digging-108679/" aria-label="Read more about Why archaeology is so much more than just digging">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Adjunct Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia The warm days of summer are almost upon us. Nudity on some Australian beaches is inevitable. But exactly how much of our flesh can we bare, and when, and where? It should surprise no-one ... <a title="Avoid a bum steer this summer: here’s what Australian law says about public nudity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/avoid-a-bum-steer-this-summer-heres-what-australian-law-says-about-public-nudity-107525/" aria-label="Read more about Avoid a bum steer this summer: here’s what Australian law says about public nudity">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marnie Campbell, Chevron Harry Butler Chair in Biosecurity and Environmental Science, Murdoch University Our beaches are our summer playgrounds, yet beach litter and marine debris injures one-fifth of beach users, particularly children and older people. Our research, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, found ... <a title="Forget sharks… here’s why you are more likely to be injured by litter at the beach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/forget-sharks-heres-why-you-are-more-likely-to-be-injured-by-litter-at-the-beach-109002/" aria-label="Read more about Forget sharks… here’s why you are more likely to be injured by litter at the beach">Read more</a>
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January 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judith Armstrong, Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne In a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages. The Russian poet Anna Akhmatova is too tragic and striking a figure ever to be forgotten. A famous portrait depicts ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Lydia Chukovskaya, editor, writer, heroic friend" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/02/hidden-women-of-history-lydia-chukovskaya-editor-writer-heroic-friend-108509/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Lydia Chukovskaya, editor, writer, heroic friend">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland The year gets off to a bang with the Quadrantids, the first of the annual big three meteor showers. Active while the Moon is new, it gives northern hemisphere observers a show to enjoy during the cold nights of ... <a title="Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/01/look-up-your-guide-to-some-of-the-best-meteor-showers-for-2019-106863/" aria-label="Read more about Look up! Your guide to some of the best meteor showers for 2019">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University On the morning of Monday, March 4 1996, the young treasurer in the Howard government, Peter Costello, and his press secretary, Tony Smith – now the speaker of the House of Representatives ... <a title="1996-1997 cabinet papers show how Howard and Costello faced a budget black hole" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/01/1996-1997-cabinet-papers-show-how-howard-and-costello-faced-a-budget-black-hole-107273/" aria-label="Read more about 1996-1997 cabinet papers show how Howard and Costello faced a budget black hole">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maarten De Brauwer, PhD-candidate in Marine Ecology, Curtin University We all enjoy watching animals, whether they’re our own pets, birds in the garden, or elephants on a safari during our holidays. People take pictures during many of these wildlife encounters, but not all of these photographic episodes ... <a title="Flash photography doesn’t harm seahorses – but don’t touch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/01/flash-photography-doesnt-harm-seahorses-but-dont-touch-108346/" aria-label="Read more about Flash photography doesn’t harm seahorses – but don’t touch">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Heslin, Associate Professor, UNSW Business School, UNSW Every year most of us make New Year’s resolutions. Eat healthier. Exercise regularly. Invest more in valued relationships. Learn a language. And so on. Often they are the same resolutions as last year. Why do our resolutions often so ... <a title="Three ways to achieve your New Year’s resolutions by building ‘goal infrastructure’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/01/three-ways-to-achieve-your-new-years-resolutions-by-building-goal-infrastructure-105292/" aria-label="Read more about Three ways to achieve your New Year’s resolutions by building ‘goal infrastructure’">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter McPhee, Emeritus professor, University of Melbourne In a new series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages. Anne-Josèphe Théroigne or Terwagne (1762–1817) was born at Marcourt, a village south of Liège in modern Belgium. From a comfortable farming family, Théroigne had a remarkably unsettled ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Théroigne de Méricourt, feminist revolutionary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/01/hidden-women-of-history-theroigne-de-mericourt-feminist-revolutionary-107802/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Théroigne de Méricourt, feminist revolutionary">Read more</a>
