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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Sweetman, Research Fellow, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University The health of Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce is in the news again, this time with a diagnosis of a sleep disorder made while filming a TV documentary. Joyce’s diagnosis of insomnia plus sleep apnoea arose ... <a title="Why Barnaby Joyce’s TV diagnosis of insomnia plus sleep apnoea is such a big deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/why-barnaby-joyces-tv-diagnosis-of-insomnia-plus-sleep-apnoea-is-such-a-big-deal-224616/" aria-label="Read more about Why Barnaby Joyce’s TV diagnosis of insomnia plus sleep apnoea is such a big deal">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gareth Evans, Distinguished Honorary Professor, Australian National University When Cambodia’s new prime minister, Hun Manet, visits Melbourne next week for the ASEAN Australia Summit, he may seem a welcome change from his long-serving authoritarian father Hun Sen. But hopes for a democratic and human rights renaissance in ... <a title="Cambodia’s new leader may sound like a reformer in Australia next week, but little has changed back home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/cambodias-new-leader-may-sound-like-a-reformer-in-australia-next-week-but-little-has-changed-back-home-224726/" aria-label="Read more about Cambodia’s new leader may sound like a reformer in Australia next week, but little has changed back home">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Rentz, Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University David Rentz In recent weeks, Melburnians have reported thousands of crickets showing up in large numbers after dark, flying into homes and shops and taking up residence. The insect in question is ... <a title="From crickets in Melbourne to grasshoppers in Cairns, here’s what triggers an insect outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/from-crickets-in-melbourne-to-grasshoppers-in-cairns-heres-what-triggers-an-insect-outbreak-224338/" aria-label="Read more about From crickets in Melbourne to grasshoppers in Cairns, here’s what triggers an insect outbreak">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Historian, Australian Catholic University Shutterstock On this day, February 29, conversations the world over may conjure the name of Pope Gregory XIII – widely known for his reform of the calendar that bears his name. The need for calendar reform was driven by ... <a title="Pope Gregory XIII gave us the leap year – but his legacy goes so much further" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/pope-gregory-xiii-gave-us-the-leap-year-but-his-legacy-goes-so-much-further-223093/" aria-label="Read more about Pope Gregory XIII gave us the leap year – but his legacy goes so much further">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Themiya Nanayakkara, Senior Scientist at the James Webb Australian Data Centre, Swinburne University of Technology NASA / ESA / CSA / Ivo Labbe (Swinburne) / Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh) / Alyssa Pagan (STScI) About 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the cosmos was a very dark ... <a title="What ended the ‘dark ages’ in the early universe? New Webb data just brought us closer to solving the mystery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/what-ended-the-dark-ages-in-the-early-universe-new-webb-data-just-brought-us-closer-to-solving-the-mystery-224525/" aria-label="Read more about What ended the ‘dark ages’ in the early universe? New Webb data just brought us closer to solving the mystery">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saman Khalesi, Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Nutrition, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity Australia Pexels/Karolina Grabowska According to social media, carbs come in various guises: naked carbs, net carbs, complex carbs and more. You might be wondering what these terms mean or if ... <a title="‘Naked carbs’ and ‘net carbs’ – what are they and should you count them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/naked-carbs-and-net-carbs-what-are-they-and-should-you-count-them-223731/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Naked carbs’ and ‘net carbs’ – what are they and should you count them?">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Badenhorst, Senior Lecturer, Massey University New Zealand girls and young women, as well as nonbinary persons who bleed every month, have a limited understanding of menstruation. This lack of knowledge about their own bodies is affecting their overall health and wellbeing. Our ongoing research, currently under ... <a title="There is a knowledge gap around menstruation in NZ – and this puts people at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/there-is-a-knowledge-gap-around-menstruation-in-nz-and-this-puts-people-at-risk-224257/" aria-label="Read more about There is a knowledge gap around menstruation in NZ – and this puts people at risk">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laure Poncet, Research officer, UNSW Sydney Japan Meteorological Agency, Himawari-8, Author provided Fire. Flood. Fire and flood together. Double-whammy storms. Unprecedented rainfall. Heatwaves. Climate change is making some of Australia’s weather more extreme. In 2023, the country was hit by a broad range of particularly intense events, ... <a title="What we know about last year’s top 10 wild Australian climatic events – from fire and flood combos to cyclone-driven extreme rain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/what-we-know-about-last-years-top-10-wild-australian-climatic-events-from-fire-and-flood-combos-to-cyclone-driven-extreme-rain-224614/" aria-label="Read more about What we know about last year’s top 10 wild Australian climatic events – from fire and flood combos to cyclone-driven extreme rain">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Treadwell, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Auckland University of Technology If journalism in Western democracies has been on a roller coaster in recent decades, in Aotearoa New Zealand this week it threatened to come right off the rails. Today’s shocking announcement by owners Warner Bros Discovery of ... <a title="With the end of Newshub, the slippery slope just got steeper for NZ journalism and democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/with-the-end-of-newshub-the-slippery-slope-just-got-steeper-for-nz-journalism-and-democracy-224625/" aria-label="Read more about With the end of Newshub, the slippery slope just got steeper for NZ journalism and democracy">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania Victorians were braced for the worst on Wednesday amid soaring temperatures and gusty winds, creating the state’s worst fire conditions in years. Authorities have declared a “catastrophic” fire risk in some parts of the state. At ... <a title="Victoria’s fire alert has knocked Australians out of complacency. Under climate change, catastrophic bushfires can strike any time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/victorias-fire-alert-has-knocked-australians-out-of-complacency-under-climate-change-catastrophic-bushfires-can-strike-any-time-224636/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s fire alert has knocked Australians out of complacency. Under climate change, catastrophic bushfires can strike any time">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland If you believe Newspoll and the Australian Financial Review, Australia wants to go nuclear – as long it’s small. Newspoll this week suggests a majority of us are in favour of building small modular nuclear reactors. A poll ... <a title="Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/dutton-wants-a-mature-debate-about-nuclear-power-by-the-time-weve-had-one-new-plants-will-be-too-late-to-replace-coal-224513/" aria-label="Read more about Dutton wants a ‘mature debate’ about nuclear power. By the time we’ve had one, new plants will be too late to replace coal">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Blythe Worthy, PhD Candidate, The University of Sydney, University of Sydney Madman Entertainment In Justine Triet’s French legal drama Anatomy of a Fall, novelist Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) is on trial for murdering her husband, Samuel (Samuel Theis), after he falls to his death from the attic ... <a title="What is the role of the mother? At the heart of Anatomy of a Fall is a critique of anti-feminist backlash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/28/what-is-the-role-of-the-mother-at-the-heart-of-anatomy-of-a-fall-is-a-critique-of-anti-feminist-backlash-224139/" aria-label="Read more about What is the role of the mother? At the heart of Anatomy of a Fall is a critique of anti-feminist backlash">Read more</a>
