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December 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Gildersleeve, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland Summer is the time for holidays and travel. But as we weakly wave goodbye (we hope) to the horrors of 2020, international travel is off the table and even domestic travel is still restricted. A book ... <a title="Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/29/hit-the-road-jack-5-epic-literary-road-trips-that-are-not-by-kerouac-150159/" aria-label="Read more about Hit the road, Jack: 5 epic literary road trips that are not by Kerouac">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University The news on the Sydney northern beaches COVID-19 outbreak is encouraging, with just five locally acquired new cases announced today from more than 15,000 tests in the last 24 hours. All five locally acquired cases were contacts of known cases ... <a title="Should you go to a Sydney New Year’s Eve party? NSW has handled COVID outbreak well but risks remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/should-you-go-to-a-sydney-new-years-eve-party-nsw-has-handled-covid-outbreak-well-but-risks-remain-152552/" aria-label="Read more about Should you go to a Sydney New Year’s Eve party? NSW has handled COVID outbreak well but risks remain">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wallace, Associate Professor, 50/50 By 2030 Foundation, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra It has been both a remarkably good and remarkably bad year for Australian women. Their leadership in Australian politics and public life has been more prominent and successful than ever ... <a title="Victory, history and a pink recession: the highs and lows for women in 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/victory-history-and-a-pink-recession-the-highs-and-lows-for-women-in-2020-150064/" aria-label="Read more about Victory, history and a pink recession: the highs and lows for women in 2020">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato A year ago, who could have even imagined 2020 would turn out the way it did? A pandemic, closed borders, lockdowns, economic crisis, a delayed election … but here we are at the end of a year like no ... <a title="New Zealand’s 2020 report card: doing well but could try harder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/new-zealands-2020-report-card-doing-well-but-could-try-harder-149982/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s 2020 report card: doing well but could try harder">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Caprar, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Finally, the holidays are here — the break you’ve been waiting for. You want to leave work behind, kick back and enjoy time with family and friends. But you’re still checking work emails and taking work calls. Even if you ... <a title="Here’s why you’re checking work emails on holidays (and how to stop)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/heres-why-youre-checking-work-emails-on-holidays-and-how-to-stop-148720/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s why you’re checking work emails on holidays (and how to stop)">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodi Rowley, Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field. Frog calls are iconic sounds of summer in Australia. There ... <a title="Clicks, bonks and dripping taps: listen to the calls of 6 frogs out and about this summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/clicks-bonks-and-dripping-taps-listen-to-the-calls-of-6-frogs-out-and-about-this-summer-150084/" aria-label="Read more about Clicks, bonks and dripping taps: listen to the calls of 6 frogs out and about this summer">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Ward, Fellow in Historical Studies, University of Melbourne In mid November, South Dakota emergency room nurse Jodi Doering tweeted her experience of caring for dying patients. Many, she said, were denying the existence of COVID-19 until their final breaths. Their last dying words are “this can’t ... <a title="The less equal we become, the less we trust science, and that’s a problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/the-less-equal-we-become-the-less-we-trust-science-and-thats-a-problem-151691/" aria-label="Read more about The less equal we become, the less we trust science, and that’s a problem">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, UNSW A few years ago I had the pleasure of listening to the highly-influential legal scholar Cass Sunstein speak in the flesh. Cass wrote the best-selling book Nudge, along with his long-time collaborator Richard Thaler. Thaler subsequently won the Nobel Prize ... <a title="Humans learn from mistakes — so why do we hide our failures?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/humans-learn-from-mistakes-so-why-do-we-hide-our-failures-132252/" aria-label="Read more about Humans learn from mistakes — so why do we hide our failures?">Read more</a>
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December 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frieda Moran, PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania In a new series, our writers explore how food shaped Australian history – and who we are today. Curry occupies a grey area in Australia: sometimes exotic and other, sometimes ordinary, often a bit of both. Advertised in Australia as ... <a title="From curried wombat to rendang and doro wat: a brief history of curry in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/28/from-curried-wombat-to-rendang-and-doro-wat-a-brief-history-of-curry-in-australia-150370/" aria-label="Read more about From curried wombat to rendang and doro wat: a brief history of curry in Australia">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Evans, ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Imagine opening the weekend paper and looking through the puzzle pages for the Sudoku. You spend your morning working through this logic puzzle, only to realise by the last few squares there’s no consistent way ... <a title="Quantum philosophy: 4 ways physics will challenge your reality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/25/quantum-philosophy-4-ways-physics-will-challenge-your-reality-150175/" aria-label="Read more about Quantum philosophy: 4 ways physics will challenge your reality">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Tolkach, Senior Lecturer, James Cook University As the COVID pandemic took hold in March, Ohio’s Brady Sluder went to Miami for spring break, despite urgent calls for people to stay home and socially distance. Interviewed by CBS News, Sluder’s arrogant justfication for his trip went viral. ... <a title="Would you do this at home? Why we are more likely to do stupid things on holidays" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/25/would-you-do-this-at-home-why-we-are-more-likely-to-do-stupid-things-on-holidays-150287/" aria-label="Read more about Would you do this at home? Why we are more likely to do stupid things on holidays">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Associate Professor and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney Mosquitoes are an inevitable part of the Australian summer. And this year, with COVID a consideration, we might be spending more time outdoors than usual. Supermarkets and pharmacies are stocked with a wide range of ... <a title="Mozzies biting? Here’s how to choose a repellent (and how to use it for the best protection)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/25/mozzies-biting-heres-how-to-choose-a-repellent-and-how-to-use-it-for-the-best-protection-150183/" aria-label="Read more about Mozzies biting? Here’s how to choose a repellent (and how to use it for the best protection)">Read more</a>
