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January 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Senior Lecturer School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. “You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget ... <a title="How creativity can help us cultivate moral imagination" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/30/how-creativity-can-help-us-cultivate-moral-imagination-101968/" aria-label="Read more about How creativity can help us cultivate moral imagination">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Barron, Associate Professor, Macquarie University We’ve known for a while that honey bees are smart cookies. They have excellent navigation skills, they communicate symbolically through dance, and they’re the only insects that have been shown to learn abstract concepts. Honey bees might also add the title ... <a title="Bees can learn the difference between European and Australian Indigenous art styles in a single afternoon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/bees-can-learn-the-difference-between-european-and-australian-indigenous-art-styles-in-a-single-afternoon-110494/" aria-label="Read more about Bees can learn the difference between European and Australian Indigenous art styles in a single afternoon">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University Your trousers fit when you put them on in the morning. But come mid-afternoon, they’re uncomfortably tight – and you didn’t even overdo it at lunchtime. Sound familiar? Around one in six people without a health ... <a title="Health Check: what causes bloating and gassiness?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/health-check-what-causes-bloating-and-gassiness-107605/" aria-label="Read more about Health Check: what causes bloating and gassiness?">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University The nation whose anthem lauds “the land of the free and the home of the brave” and whose constitution was drafted “in order to form a more perfect union … and secure the blessings of liberty” continues to flirt with ... <a title="Why Trump’s wall rhetoric is about power rather than policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/why-trumps-wall-rhetoric-is-about-power-rather-than-policy-110499/" aria-label="Read more about Why Trump’s wall rhetoric is about power rather than policy">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Salinger, Honorary Associate, Tasmanian Institute for Agriculture, University of Tasmania As the Australian heatwave is spilling across the Tasman and pushing up temperatures in New Zealand, we take a look at the conditions that caused a similar event last year and the impacts it had. Last ... <a title="Farmed fish dying, grape harvest weeks early – just some of the effects of last summer’s heatwave in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/farmed-fish-dying-grape-harvest-weeks-early-just-some-of-the-effects-of-last-summers-heatwave-in-nz-110577/" aria-label="Read more about Farmed fish dying, grape harvest weeks early – just some of the effects of last summer’s heatwave in NZ">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Ellison, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, ... <a title="Curious Kids: how did spoken language start?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/curious-kids-how-did-spoken-language-start-109190/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how did spoken language start?">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Middleton, Emeritus Professor, School of Aviation, UNSW When the American aerospace company Bell Nexus unveiled an air taxi at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this month it breathed new life into conversations about a future where ride sharing happens in the air rather ... <a title="Flying taxis within five years? Not likely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/flying-taxis-within-five-years-not-likely-110025/" aria-label="Read more about Flying taxis within five years? Not likely">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney In both the United Kingdom and Australia there is speculation that controversial bills may be passed against the will of the government. If so, could the government advise that the bill be refused royal assent – the last ... <a title="Why a government would be mad to advise the refusal of royal assent to a bill passed against its will" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/why-a-government-would-be-mad-to-advise-the-refusal-of-royal-assent-to-a-bill-passed-against-its-will-110501/" aria-label="Read more about Why a government would be mad to advise the refusal of royal assent to a bill passed against its will">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney A new school year, and another battle between bloodsucking parasites and the kids they love to live on. But the real casualties are the stressed-out parents and carers trying to keep their kids free of lice. ... <a title="Back at school? Here’s how to keep kids free of head lice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/back-at-school-heres-how-to-keep-kids-free-of-head-lice-110344/" aria-label="Read more about Back at school? Here’s how to keep kids free of head lice">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Siyuan Tian, Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University Another summer, another drought. Sydney’s water storages are running on empty, and desalinisation plants are being dusted off. Elsewhere, shrunken rivers, lakes and dams are swollen with rotting fish. Governments, irrigators and environmentalists blame each other for the drought, or ... <a title="To predict droughts, don’t look at the skies. Look in the soil… from space" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/to-predict-droughts-dont-look-at-the-skies-look-in-the-soil-from-space-110493/" aria-label="Read more about To predict droughts, don’t look at the skies. Look in the soil… from space">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Smith, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University Going to school is one of the few life experiences almost everyone shares. From the time children began to be educated in small groups in Britain, there were school stories in popular culture, beginning with what many consider ... <a title="From The Getting of Wisdom to Heartbreak High: Australian school stories on screen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/from-the-getting-of-wisdom-to-heartbreak-high-australian-school-stories-on-screen-109941/" aria-label="Read more about From The Getting of Wisdom to Heartbreak High: Australian school stories on screen">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A high profile independent candidate, Oliver Yates, is expected to run against Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in the heartland Liberal seat of Kooyong in Melbourne. Yates, who lives in the electorate, is a member of the Liberal party and a former ... <a title="View from The Hill: Independent push against Frydenberg" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/28/view-from-the-hill-independent-push-against-frydenberg-110600/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Independent push against Frydenberg">Read more</a>
