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December 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Byron, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Wollongong Westend61/Getty Images You’re reading a report and trying to concentrate. The room is silent. But despite your best efforts to focus, a little snatch of melody – an “earworm” – keeps circling inside your head. Research suggests most people ... <a title="Why do we get snippets of songs stuck in our heads? And are earworms more common with OCD?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/why-do-we-get-snippets-of-songs-stuck-in-our-heads-and-are-earworms-more-common-with-ocd-263209/" aria-label="Read more about Why do we get snippets of songs stuck in our heads? And are earworms more common with OCD?">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rhys Ashby, Lecturer in Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology Vitaly Gariev/Unsplash We’ve all been there – splitting a bill at dinner, covering a mate’s coffee, or sending a quick transfer for concert tickets. It’s part of modern social life. As money becomes increasingly digital and instantaneous, we ... <a title="In a world of digital money, what’s the right etiquette to split the bill with friends?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/in-a-world-of-digital-money-whats-the-right-etiquette-to-split-the-bill-with-friends-270971/" aria-label="Read more about In a world of digital money, what’s the right etiquette to split the bill with friends?">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia Harry Gouvas/Archaeological Museum of Nikopolis/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Parties in ancient Greece were wild, with evidence of copious alcohol and sex. That’s the popular idea that endures today. But there were different types of parties ... <a title="How to party like an ancient Greek" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/how-to-party-like-an-ancient-greek-270060/" aria-label="Read more about How to party like an ancient Greek">Read more</a>
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December 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Morteza Hajizadeh, Hajizadeh, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau An image of The Book of Kings shows a couple embracing with servants around them. Library of Congress, CC BY-SA For centuries, literature from Islamic regions, especially Iran, celebrated male homoerotic love as a symbol of beauty, mysticism ... <a title="Literature from Islamic societies embraced homoerotic love until the 19th century. What happened?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/literature-from-islamic-societies-embraced-homoerotic-love-until-the-19th-century-what-happened-266357/" aria-label="Read more about Literature from Islamic societies embraced homoerotic love until the 19th century. What happened?">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Brown, Lecturer in Math and Physics, CQUniversity Australia Pixabay/Pexels Fire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution. Our ancestors used fire for safety, cooking and preserving food. They gathered around a flickering fire to share stories, pass on cultural knowledge and build community. ... <a title="What actually is fire? A physicist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/what-actually-is-fire-a-physicist-explains-269708/" aria-label="Read more about What actually is fire? A physicist explains">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Peden, NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health and Co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney Kindel Media/Pexels It’s summer so kids’ playdates and birthday parties might start moving from the playground to the pool. I research how to prevent drowning. I’m also a mum ... <a title="It’s a pool party! How to stay safe around the pool with friends this summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/its-a-pool-party-how-to-stay-safe-around-the-pool-with-friends-this-summer-268090/" aria-label="Read more about It’s a pool party! How to stay safe around the pool with friends this summer">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rumen Rachev, PhD Candidate, Edith Cowan University Thomas Koukas/Unsplash, CC BY-NC-ND As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather reports showing scudding rainclouds, but the deeper logic of cloud movements, their distributions ... <a title="Clouds are vital to life – but many are becoming wispy ghosts. Here’s how to see the changes above us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/clouds-are-vital-to-life-but-many-are-becoming-wispy-ghosts-heres-how-to-see-the-changes-above-us-265575/" aria-label="Read more about Clouds are vital to life – but many are becoming wispy ghosts. Here’s how to see the changes above us">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Brockett, Professor of Sport Systems Development, Victoria University Sport is one of the most climate-sensitive aspects of Australian life, yet still sits largely outside the national conversation on climate exposure. Sport attracts around 14 million participants annually in Australia. According to national data from July 2023 ... <a title="Can Australian sport ever be environmentally sustainable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/can-australian-sport-ever-be-environmentally-sustainable-267545/" aria-label="Read more about Can Australian sport ever be environmentally sustainable?">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Dovey, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne Among his other ongoing projects, US President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term on a renovation. The Oval Office has been converted into a miniature palace festooned with gold bling, the rose ... <a title="Architecture isn’t neutral. It’s been shaping political power for millennia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/architecture-isnt-neutral-its-been-shaping-political-power-for-millennia-267742/" aria-label="Read more about Architecture isn’t neutral. It’s been shaping political power for millennia">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University Pinterest, Canva, Wikimedia, The Conversation, CC BY These days, human resources (HR) departments want us to use official titles for jobs. But we know the social truths of a job — how well that job gets done, whether we like ... <a title="Babblers, cops and quacks: the sometimes dark – but often amusing – origins of nicknames for jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/babblers-cops-and-quacks-the-sometimes-dark-but-often-amusing-origins-of-nicknames-for-jobs-270647/" aria-label="Read more about Babblers, cops and quacks: the sometimes dark – but often amusing – origins of nicknames for jobs">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY “All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments”, proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st-2nd century CE), the Roman poet. Today, 20,000 ... <a title="‘Weights of gold in bullion’: how the ancients invested in precious metals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/weights-of-gold-in-bullion-how-the-ancients-invested-in-precious-metals-268207/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: how the ancients invested in precious metals">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Walker, Visiting Fellow, National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University Emma Johnston, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne who has died aged 52, was a marine ecologist, a visionary leader in science and research, a passionate champion of the environment, a ... <a title="Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/29/emma-johnston-was-a-visionary-scientist-environmentalist-and-leader-with-an-abiding-hope-for-humanity-272609/" aria-label="Read more about Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity">Read more</a>
