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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The West is arraying financial weapons never deployed before against a country of Russia’s size, forsaking some of the principles that have defined it. Part of what has defined the West – and most of ... <a title="Putin’s biggest mistake of the Ukraine war? Trusting the Western financial system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/putins-biggest-mistake-of-the-ukraine-war-trusting-the-western-financial-system-178635/" aria-label="Read more about Putin’s biggest mistake of the Ukraine war? Trusting the Western financial system">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Maguire, Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle Roman Pilipey/EPA/AAP As Ukraine scrambles to defend itself from Russia’s illegal invasion, men aged 18 to 60 have been banned from leaving the country. The declaration of martial law in Ukraine gives the government ... <a title="Why banning men from leaving Ukraine violates their human rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/why-banning-men-from-leaving-ukraine-violates-their-human-rights-178411/" aria-label="Read more about Why banning men from leaving Ukraine violates their human rights">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Serena Yu, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Women in Australia are more likely to have an unplanned caesarean birth if they give birth in a private hospital rather than a public hospital – independent of their health status during pregnancy or their birth plans. Our ... <a title="Private obstetric care increases the chance of caesarean birth, regardless of health needs and wishes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/private-obstetric-care-increases-the-chance-of-caesarean-birth-regardless-of-health-needs-and-wishes-178032/" aria-label="Read more about Private obstetric care increases the chance of caesarean birth, regardless of health needs and wishes">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacob C. Blokland, Vertebrate Palaeontology PhD Candidate and Casual Academic, Flinders University A life reconstruction of one of the largest penguins that ever lived, _Kumimanu biceae_. Illustration by Mark Witton (used with permission, all other rights reserved), Author provided What is the largest penguin that ever lived? ... <a title="Curious Kids: what is the largest penguin that ever lived?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/curious-kids-what-is-the-largest-penguin-that-ever-lived-178036/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: what is the largest penguin that ever lived?">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan L. Zecher, Research fellow, Australian Catholic University AAP/AP/Vadim Ghirda There is a famous tale within Russian Orthodox Christianity that goes like this: In the 16th century, Ivan IV – the Terrible, arguably the first Tsar of Russia – sought to extend his power and sent men ... <a title="How the Ukraine war is dividing Orthodox Christians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/how-the-ukraine-war-is-dividing-orthodox-christians-178319/" aria-label="Read more about How the Ukraine war is dividing Orthodox Christians">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Peterson, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology Adelaide Festival/Roy Vandervegt Review: The Photo Box, directed by Mish Grigor, Vitalstatitix and Brink Productions for Adelaide Festival Emma Beech’s The Photo Box reminds us why we gather in small theatres to listen to a single performer tell us ... <a title="Emma Beech’s The Photo Box is an intimate and honest view of a life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/emma-beechs-the-photo-box-is-an-intimate-and-honest-view-of-a-life-175329/" aria-label="Read more about Emma Beech’s The Photo Box is an intimate and honest view of a life">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Russia invasion of Ukraine Alexander Gillespie (The Conversation): How will NZ’s sanctions law ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 08 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-08-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 08 2022">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These five charts look at five countries for which excess death information is available. First, it is important to note that I am presenting a different definition of excess deaths than other sources, in that these charts include seasonal excess deaths arising from triggers other than Covid19. Switzerland, the Optimistic Note ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: Four Problems and one Not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-in-2022-four-problems-and-one-not/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: Four Problems and one Not">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul X. McCarthy, Adjunct Professor, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Big data analysis has long supported major feats in physics and astronomy. But more recently we’ve seen it underpin breakthroughs in the social sciences and humanities. Since the landmark paper Computational Social Science was published in 2009, a new ... <a title="How we communicate, what we value – even who we are: 8 surprising things data science has revealed about us over the past decade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/how-we-communicate-what-we-value-even-who-we-are-8-surprising-things-data-science-has-revealed-about-us-over-the-past-decade-176891/" aria-label="Read more about How we communicate, what we value – even who we are: 8 surprising things data science has revealed about us over the past decade">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor’s fellow, La Trobe University As Russia’s attempt to intimidate Ukraine and, presumably, install a puppet regime stumbles into its second week, it is clear the Kremlin has miscalculated on several fronts. Ukrainian resistance is proving more resilient than anticipated, and a global response, led ... <a title="Has Xi Jinping miscalculated in aligning himself with Vladimir Putin?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/has-xi-jinping-miscalculated-in-aligning-himself-with-vladimir-putin-178308/" aria-label="Read more about Has Xi Jinping miscalculated in aligning himself with Vladimir Putin?">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Hellewell, Research Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences, Curtin University, and The Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science, Curtin University Shutterstock Most of what we know about how COVID can affect the brain has come from studies of severe infection. In people with severe COVID, inflammatory ... <a title="Even mild COVID can cause brain shrinkage and affect mental function, new study shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/even-mild-covid-can-cause-brain-shrinkage-and-affect-mental-function-new-study-shows-178530/" aria-label="Read more about Even mild COVID can cause brain shrinkage and affect mental function, new study shows">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University For over two decades, bull sharks have called a Brisbane golf course home after, it’s believed, a flood washed them into the course’s lake in 1996. Now, ... <a title="‘The sad reality is many don’t survive’: how floods affect wildlife, and how you can help them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/the-sad-reality-is-many-dont-survive-how-floods-affect-wildlife-and-how-you-can-help-them-178310/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The sad reality is many don’t survive’: how floods affect wildlife, and how you can help them">Read more</a>
