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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caitlin Syme, PhD in Vertebrate Palaeontology, The University of Queensland This story contains spoilers for Ammonite Palaeontologist Mary Anning is known for discovering a multitude of Jurassic fossils from Lyme Regis on England’s Dorset Coast from the age of ten in 1809. Her discoveries included the first ... <a title="Ammonite: the remarkable real science of Mary Anning and her fossils" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/ammonite-the-remarkable-real-science-of-mary-anning-and-her-fossils-151296/" aria-label="Read more about Ammonite: the remarkable real science of Mary Anning and her fossils">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University Last week Twitter permanently suspended US President Donald Trump in the wake of his supporters’ violent storming of Capitol Hill. Trump was also suspended from Facebook and Instagram indefinitely. Heads quickly turned to the right-wing Twitter alternative Parler — which ... <a title="Why social media platforms banning Trump won’t stop — or even slow down — his cause" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/why-social-media-platforms-banning-trump-wont-stop-or-even-slow-down-his-cause-152970/" aria-label="Read more about Why social media platforms banning Trump won’t stop — or even slow down — his cause">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies, Macquarie University Last week Twitter permanently suspended US President Donald Trump in the wake of his supporters’ violent storming of Capitol Hill. Trump was also suspended from Facebook and Instagram indefinitely. Heads quickly turned to the right-wing Twitter alternative Parler — which ... <a title="Why online platforms banning Trump won’t stop — or even slow down — his cause" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/why-online-platforms-banning-trump-wont-stop-or-even-slow-down-his-cause-152970/" aria-label="Read more about Why online platforms banning Trump won’t stop — or even slow down — his cause">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Corbould, Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University The alt-right, QAnon, paramilitary and Donald Trump-supporting mob that stormed the US Capitol on January 6 claimed they were only doing what the so-called “founding fathers” of the US had done in 1776: overthrowing an illegitimate government ... <a title="Why the alt-right believes another American Revolution is coming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/why-the-alt-right-believes-another-american-revolution-is-coming-153093/" aria-label="Read more about Why the alt-right believes another American Revolution is coming">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andreas Kupz, Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University In July 1921, a French infant became the first person to receive an experimental vaccine against tuberculosis (TB), after the mother had died from the disease. The vaccine, known as Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), is the same one still used ... <a title="Tuberculosis kills as many people each year as COVID-19. It’s time we found a better vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/tuberculosis-kills-as-many-people-each-year-as-covid-19-its-time-we-found-a-better-vaccine-151590/" aria-label="Read more about Tuberculosis kills as many people each year as COVID-19. It’s time we found a better vaccine">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Melleuish, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong What can we make of Clive Palmer? This week, he announced his United Australia Party (UAP) would not contest the upcoming West Australian state election on March 13. After a dismal showing in the October ... <a title="Is it curtains for Clive? What COVID means for populism in Australia " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/is-it-curtains-for-clive-what-covid-means-for-populism-in-australia-153101/" aria-label="Read more about Is it curtains for Clive? What COVID means for populism in Australia ">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gisela Kaplan, Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England Have you ever seen magpies play-fighting with one another, or rolling around in high spirits? Or an apostlebird running at full speed with a stick in its beak, chased by a troop of other apostlebirds? Well, ... <a title="Birds that play with others have the biggest brains – and the same may go for humans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/birds-that-play-with-others-have-the-biggest-brains-and-the-same-may-go-for-humans-151079/" aria-label="Read more about Birds that play with others have the biggest brains – and the same may go for humans">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Jackson, Program Director, Centre for Policy Development, and Associate Professor of Education, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Childcare centres across Australia are suffering staff shortages, which have been exacerbated by the COVID crisis. Many childcare workers across Australia left when parents started pulling their children out of ... <a title="Early childhood educators are leaving in droves. Here are 3 ways to keep them, and attract more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/early-childhood-educators-are-leaving-in-droves-here-are-3-ways-to-keep-them-and-attract-more-153187/" aria-label="Read more about Early childhood educators are leaving in droves. Here are 3 ways to keep them, and attract more">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Rhetoric plays an important role in tax debate and therefore tax policy. If your side manages to gain traction in the public imagination with labels such as “death tax” or “dementia tax”, you ... <a title="Government funds are not ‘taxpayer money’ — media and politicians should stop confusing the two" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/government-funds-are-not-taxpayer-money-media-and-politicians-should-stop-confusing-the-two-153195/" aria-label="Read more about Government funds are not ‘taxpayer money’ — media and politicians should stop confusing the two">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raquel Peel, Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland This story contains spoilers for Bridgerton The first season of Bridgerton, Netflix’s new hit show based on Julia Quinn’s novels, premiered on December 25 last year. The show is set in London, during the debutante season of 1813. It starts ... <a title="Bridgerton offers clever relationship advice — why friendship is the foundation of happy romantic partnerships" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/bridgerton-offers-clever-relationship-advice-why-friendship-is-the-foundation-of-happy-romantic-partnerships-152953/" aria-label="Read more about Bridgerton offers clever relationship advice — why friendship is the foundation of happy romantic partnerships">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bryan Cranston, Lead Academic Teacher – Politics & Social Science (Swinburne Online), Swinburne University of Technology In a historic vote today, Donald Trump became the only US president to be impeached twice. By a margin of 232–197, the Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives voted to charge Trump ... <a title="Trump is impeached again in historic vote. Now Republicans must decide the future of their party" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/trump-is-impeached-again-in-historic-vote-now-republicans-must-decide-the-future-of-their-party-153196/" aria-label="Read more about Trump is impeached again in historic vote. Now Republicans must decide the future of their party">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Arturo López-Levy Oakland, California Unfortunately, the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters, encouraged by the Inciter-in-Chief, will not be the last act of mischief. Trump is insisting on causing as much damage as possible to the interests and values of the United States on his way ... <a title="Placing Cuba on the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism Discredits U.S. Foreign Policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/placing-cuba-on-the-list-of-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-discredits-u-s-foreign-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Placing Cuba on the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism Discredits U.S. Foreign Policy">Read more</a>
