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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Scott, Associate Professor in Geology, University of Otago NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars this morning, and has already begun beaming back images. But people might be surprised to learn there have been another 48 missions to the red planet so far. Of these, ... <a title="As the Perseverance rover lands on Mars, there’s a lot we already know about the red planet from meteorites found on Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/as-the-perseverance-rover-lands-on-mars-theres-a-lot-we-already-know-about-the-red-planet-from-meteorites-found-on-earth-155459/" aria-label="Read more about As the Perseverance rover lands on Mars, there’s a lot we already know about the red planet from meteorites found on Earth">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Scott, Associate Professor in Geology, University of Otago NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully touched down on Mars this morning, and has already begun beaming back images. But people might be surprised to learn there have been another 48 missions to the red planet so far. Of these, ... <a title="As the Perseverance rover lands on Mars, there’s a lot we already know about Mars from meteorites found on Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/as-the-perseverance-rover-lands-on-mars-theres-a-lot-we-already-know-about-mars-from-meteorites-found-on-earth-155459/" aria-label="Read more about As the Perseverance rover lands on Mars, there’s a lot we already know about Mars from meteorites found on Earth">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Miller-Jones, Professor, Curtin University When one of us (Ilya Mandel) started grad school at the California Institute of Technology 20 years ago, he was greeted with a series of bets hanging on the wall outside the office of his PhD advisor, Kip Thorne. One bet from ... <a title="21 times the Sun’s mass: heaviest stellar black hole in the Milky Way is more massive than we thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/21-times-the-suns-mass-heaviest-stellar-black-hole-in-the-milky-way-is-more-massive-than-we-thought-155484/" aria-label="Read more about 21 times the Sun’s mass: heaviest stellar black hole in the Milky Way is more massive than we thought">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney In the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump, seven out of 50 Republican senators voted to convict the former president of inciting insurrection. This has raised more questions than it has ... <a title="After Trump, what is the future of the Republican Party?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/after-trump-what-is-the-future-of-the-republican-party-154726/" aria-label="Read more about After Trump, what is the future of the Republican Party?">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato The revelation that Air New Zealand had been silently contracting services to the Saudi Arabian navy was apparently not the only instance of New Zealand’s connection to the murderous war in Yemen. A week after Air New Zealand apologised ... <a title="The crisis in Yemen demands an independent review of NZ’s military links with Saudi Arabia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/the-crisis-in-yemen-demands-an-independent-review-of-nzs-military-links-with-saudi-arabia-155301/" aria-label="Read more about The crisis in Yemen demands an independent review of NZ’s military links with Saudi Arabia">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Xavier Symons, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University The much anticipated rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will begin in Australia on Monday. The first groups to receive the jab will be quarantine and border workers, frontline health-care workers, aged-care and disability-care workers, and aged-care and disability-care ... <a title="COVID vaccine consent for aged-care residents: it’s ethically tricky, but there are ways to get it right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/covid-vaccine-consent-for-aged-care-residents-its-ethically-tricky-but-there-are-ways-to-get-it-right-155380/" aria-label="Read more about COVID vaccine consent for aged-care residents: it’s ethically tricky, but there are ways to get it right">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Markwell, Adjunct Professor, Southern Cross University The koala is a much-loved species and lucrative tourism drawcard. Yet, for all its popularity, koalas are forecast to be extinct in NSW within 30 years. Understanding the koala-human relationship might go some way to saving the species. My research ... <a title="Why do we love koalas so much? Because they look like human babies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/why-do-we-love-koalas-so-much-because-they-look-like-human-babies-153619/" aria-label="Read more about Why do we love koalas so much? Because they look like human babies">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donna Pendergast, Dean, School of Educational and Professional Studies, Griffith University “At the end of the war men returned from the battlefield grown silent — not richer, but poorer in communicable experience”, wrote Walter Benjamin after the first world war. So too, school students may reflect on ... <a title="Fears loom for teens undergoing vital brain development during COVID. Telling stories might help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/fears-loom-for-teens-undergoing-vital-brain-development-during-covid-telling-stories-might-help-155295/" aria-label="Read more about Fears loom for teens undergoing vital brain development during COVID. Telling stories might help">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Donnelly, Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney Australia urgently needs housing types that meet the needs of older women facing homelessness. One such model is Chinese siheyuan courtyard housing, which provides safe, affordable and private living spaces while maintaining a sense of community. It ... <a title="How Chinese courtyard housing can help older Australian women avoid homelessness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/how-chinese-courtyard-housing-can-help-older-australian-women-avoid-homelessness-151378/" aria-label="Read more about How Chinese courtyard housing can help older Australian women avoid homelessness">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Fujak, Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University Netball Australia has signed a five-year deal it describes as “ground-breaking”. Every game of every round of each year’s Super Netball competition will be broadcast live and ad-free on Foxtel platforms including its sports streaming app Kayo Sports. For ... <a title="Regardless of the rules, sport is fleeing free TV for pay, and it might be an avalanche" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/regardless-of-the-rules-sport-is-fleeing-free-tv-for-pay-and-it-might-be-an-avalanche-154640/" aria-label="Read more about Regardless of the rules, sport is fleeing free TV for pay, and it might be an avalanche">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Henry Reynolds, Honorary Research Professor, Aboriginal Studies Global Cultures & Languages, University of Tasmania Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images of deceased people. Historical research of the last 20 years has confirmed the central importance of the killing times. They lasted ... <a title="Friday essay: it’s time for a new museum dedicated to the fighters of the frontier wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/friday-essay-its-time-for-a-new-museum-dedicated-to-the-fighters-of-the-frontier-wars-155299/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: it’s time for a new museum dedicated to the fighters of the frontier wars">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has been wounded by the public revelation this week of an alleged rape in Parliament House. But the fear must be that along the way Brittany Higgins, the young woman whose story shocked the country, has become a ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison dealt poorly with a young woman’s shocking story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/19/grattan-on-friday-scott-morrison-dealt-poorly-with-a-young-womans-shocking-story-155570/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison dealt poorly with a young woman’s shocking story">Read more</a>