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January 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Gruen, Adjunct Professor, Business School, University of Technology Sydney It’s almost Australia Day and hundreds of us are in line for an award. Sadly, as unpublished research by my firm Lateral Economics reveals, many will get it for little more than doing their job. And the ... <a title="We’re awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/25/were-awarding-the-order-of-australia-to-the-wrong-people-110487/" aria-label="Read more about We’re awarding the Order of Australia to the wrong people">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Salmon, Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast Artificial intelligence can play chess, drive a car and diagnose medical issues. Examples include Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, Tesla’s self-driving vehicles, and IBM’s Watson. This type of artificial intelligence is referred to as Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) ... <a title="To protect us from the risks of advanced artificial intelligence, we need to act now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/25/to-protect-us-from-the-risks-of-advanced-artificial-intelligence-we-need-to-act-now-107615/" aria-label="Read more about To protect us from the risks of advanced artificial intelligence, we need to act now">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darren Pennay, Campus Visitor, ANU Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University In the cultural warfare over whether January 26 should be retained as Australia Day, survey results are deployed like guided missiles. But what do Australians really think about the continuing debate? A recent ... <a title="New research reveals our complex attitudes to Australia Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/25/new-research-reveals-our-complex-attitudes-to-australia-day-110035/" aria-label="Read more about New research reveals our complex attitudes to Australia Day">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristine Macartney, Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney Australia was declared free of measles in 2014. Yet this summer we’ve seen nine cases of measles in New South Wales, and others in Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland. High vaccination rates in ... <a title="Why people born between 1966 and 1994 are at greater risk of measles – and what to do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/25/why-people-born-between-1966-and-1994-are-at-greater-risk-of-measles-and-what-to-do-about-it-110167/" aria-label="Read more about Why people born between 1966 and 1994 are at greater risk of measles – and what to do about it">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia If you think the weather this month has been like Groundhog Day (albeit much hotter), you’d probably be right! Much like a stuck record, weather systems seem to have stalled over most of the country. Brisbane residents are ... <a title="The stubborn high-pressure system behind Australia’s record heatwaves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/25/the-stubborn-high-pressure-system-behind-australias-record-heatwaves-110442/" aria-label="Read more about The stubborn high-pressure system behind Australia’s record heatwaves">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Harcourt, J.W. Nevile Fellow in Economics, UNSW The sea cucumber is a marine animal that has a leathery skin but soft body. Its shape and size resembles a cucumber. In Australia we commonly call it trepang, adopted from a Malayan word. It was Australia’s first export ... <a title="Throw a sea cucumber on the barbie: Australia’s trade history really is something to celebrate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/25/throw-a-sea-cucumber-on-the-barbie-australias-trade-history-really-is-something-to-celebrate-110266/" aria-label="Read more about Throw a sea cucumber on the barbie: Australia’s trade history really is something to celebrate">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heidi Norman, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney For the communities of Coonabarabran in New South Wales and her grasslands Gomeroi people, Mary Jane Cain is a revered figure. Cain lived from 1844 to 1929. In the late 1880s, she successfully advocated ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Mary Jane Cain, land rights activist, matriarch and community builder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/25/hidden-women-of-history-mary-jane-cain-land-rights-activist-matriarch-and-community-builder-110186/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Mary Jane Cain, land rights activist, matriarch and community builder">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As a new round of the culture wars bubbles, West Australian Liberal senator Dean Smith has urged that we should legislate to “protect” the January 26 date of Australia Day. Smith came to national prominence as one of the small ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Liberals stir the culture war pot but who’s listening?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/24/grattan-on-friday-liberals-stir-the-culture-war-pot-but-whos-listening-110445/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Liberals stir the culture war pot but who’s listening?">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Wright, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University This is an article from I’ve Always Wondered, where readers send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. Send your question to alwayswondered@theconversation.edu.au You might have noticed how bright green your plants look after rain. Or ... <a title="I’ve Always Wondered: is rain better than tap water for plants?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/24/ive-always-wondered-is-rain-better-than-tap-water-for-plants-109714/" aria-label="Read more about I’ve Always Wondered: is rain better than tap water for plants?">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Adjunct Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia This week, an animal rights charity, Aussie Farms, unveiled an interactive map of factory farms, slaughterhouses and other “animal exploitation” facilities across Australia. The group’s website says the map is an effort to force ... <a title="Animal activists v private landowners: what does the law say?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/24/animal-activists-v-private-landowners-what-does-the-law-say-110279/" aria-label="Read more about Animal activists v private landowners: what does the law say?">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Norberg, Associate Professor in Psychology, Macquarie University Australia is the sixth-largest contributor of household waste per capita in the world. We spend more than $A10.5 billion annually on goods and services that are never or rarely used. One-quarter of Australians admit to throwing away clothing after ... <a title="My possessions spark joy! Will the KonMari decluttering method work for me?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/24/my-possessions-spark-joy-will-the-konmari-decluttering-method-work-for-me-110357/" aria-label="Read more about My possessions spark joy! Will the KonMari decluttering method work for me?">Read more</a>
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January 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Graves, Distinguished Professor of Genetics, La Trobe University Mismatch between biological sex and gender identity, culminating in its severest form as gender dysphoria, has been ascribed to mental disease, family dysfunction and childhood trauma. But accumulating evidence now implies biological factors in establishing gender identity, and ... <a title="How genes and evolution shape gender – and transgender – identity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/24/how-genes-and-evolution-shape-gender-and-transgender-identity-108911/" aria-label="Read more about How genes and evolution shape gender – and transgender – identity">Read more</a>
