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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caitlin Syme, PhD in Vertebrate Palaeontology, The University of Queensland 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 ... <a title="Curious Kids: did the velociraptors have feathers?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/curious-kids-did-the-velociraptors-have-feathers-119535/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: did the velociraptors have feathers?">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ahmar Mahboob, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney A few months ago, I received a call from a barrister who asked me if I could evaluate whether voice identification testimony submitted in a criminal case against an Indigenous man was based on appropriate analysis. He told ... <a title="Voice evidence in trials: can a criminal suspect be identified just by the sound of his voice?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/voice-evidence-in-trials-can-a-criminal-suspect-be-identified-just-by-the-sound-of-his-voice-114815/" aria-label="Read more about Voice evidence in trials: can a criminal suspect be identified just by the sound of his voice?">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Russo, Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University Most people expect hospital treatment to make them better. But for some, a stay in hospital can actually make them sicker. Their wound might get infected after an operation or they might get ... <a title="1 in 10 patients are infected in hospital, and it’s not always with what you think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/1-in-10-patients-are-infected-in-hospital-and-its-not-always-with-what-you-think-120095/" aria-label="Read more about 1 in 10 patients are infected in hospital, and it’s not always with what you think">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alana Piper, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and economic advances in the status of women since the 1970s, including growing awareness and action around gender violence, ... <a title="The long history of gender violence in Australia, and why it matters today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/the-long-history-of-gender-violence-in-australia-and-why-it-matters-today-119927/" aria-label="Read more about The long history of gender violence in Australia, and why it matters today">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Barr, Deputy Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza From early this year it’s been apparent the 2019 Australian influenza “season” was going to be different. Normally, the flu season coincides with the winter months of July and August, sometimes stretching to September ... <a title="It’s a bad year for flu, but it’s too early to call it the worst ever – 5 charts on the 2019 season so far" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/its-a-bad-year-for-flu-but-its-too-early-to-call-it-the-worst-ever-5-charts-on-the-2019-season-so-far-120093/" aria-label="Read more about It’s a bad year for flu, but it’s too early to call it the worst ever – 5 charts on the 2019 season so far">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Newsome, Lecturer, University of Sydney The New South Wales government last week revealed plans to ease shooting restrictions on feral deer. If the plans go ahead, deer will be stripped of their status as a game animal and will no longer be afforded protection under the ... <a title="Making deer fair game for unlicensed hunting is the right step for New South Wales" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/making-deer-fair-game-for-unlicensed-hunting-is-the-right-step-for-new-south-wales-120211/" aria-label="Read more about Making deer fair game for unlicensed hunting is the right step for New South Wales">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucile Jacquot, Research fellow, Griffith University By 2017, 58% of Chinese people were living in cities. This is much less than the 79% for Western Europe and 86% for Australia, but China is undergoing very rapid urbanisation, as the chart below shows. It is expected 70% of ... <a title="China can learn from Australian urban design, but it’s not all one-way traffic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/china-can-learn-from-australian-urban-design-but-its-not-all-one-way-traffic-115905/" aria-label="Read more about China can learn from Australian urban design, but it’s not all one-way traffic">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allan Fels, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne A “loyalty tax” occurs when discounts are offered to new customers while longer-term customers pay more. Often this involves increasing premiums at the first and subsequent renewals. As the NSW government’s Insurance Monitor, charged with making sure insurance companies do ... <a title="Simple fixes could help save Australian consumers from up to $3.6 billion in ‘loyalty taxes’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/simple-fixes-could-help-save-australian-consumers-from-up-to-3-6-billion-in-loyalty-taxes-119978/" aria-label="Read more about Simple fixes could help save Australian consumers from up to $3.6 billion in ‘loyalty taxes’">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University This year’s Australian Conference of Economists takes place in Melbourne on July 14-16. During the conference The Conversation will publish a selection of pieces written by the authors of papers to be delivered ... <a title="The edges of home ownership are becoming porous. It’s no longer a one-way street" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/the-edges-of-home-ownership-are-becoming-porous-its-no-longer-a-one-way-street-119995/" aria-label="Read more about The edges of home ownership are becoming porous. It’s no longer a one-way street">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Salvatore Ferraro, Lecturer, RMIT University This year’s Australian Conference of Economists takes place in Melbourne on July 14-16. During the conference The Conversation will publish a selection of pieces written by the authors of papers to be delivered at the conference. Since the surprise re-election of the ... <a title="Inequality is growing, but it is also changing as Australia’s super rich evolve" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/inequality-is-growing-but-it-is-also-changing-as-australias-super-rich-evolve-119925/" aria-label="Read more about Inequality is growing, but it is also changing as Australia’s super rich evolve">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Constant Mews, Director, Centre for Religious Studies, Monash University Algebra, alchemy, artichoke, alcohol, and apricot all derive from Arabic words which came to the West during the age of Crusades. Even more fundamental are the Indo-Arabic numerals (0-9), which replaced Roman numerals during the same period and ... <a title="Explainer: what Western civilisation owes to Islamic cultures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/explainer-what-western-civilisation-owes-to-islamic-cultures-101195/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what Western civilisation owes to Islamic cultures">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ajay Pandey, Senior Lecturer (Intelligent Bionics and Soft Robotics), Queensland University of Technology We have robots that can walk, see, talk and hear, and manipulate objects in their robotic hands. There’s even a robot that can smell. But what about a sense of touch? This is easier ... <a title="It’s not easy to give a robot a sense of touch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/its-not-easy-to-give-a-robot-a-sense-of-touch-118111/" aria-label="Read more about It’s not easy to give a robot a sense of touch">Read more</a>
