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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 27, 2020
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The commander of the Indonesian Army Military Police (Danpuspomad), Lieutenant-General Dodik Widjanarko says TNI AD soldiers in Papua have committed acts of violence, including burning bodies to erase traces of their killing. General Widjanarko said bodies were burned after in an incident that led to two civilians, Luther Zanambani and Apinus ... <a title="Military police chief says TNI soldiers burned Papuan bodies to hide deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/27/military-police-chief-says-tni-soldiers-burned-papuan-bodies-to-hide-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Military police chief says TNI soldiers burned Papuan bodies to hide deaths">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2020
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The family of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani, who was shot dead in Hitadipa district, Intan Jaya regency, Papua, three months ago are asking that the case be tried in a human rights court. They oppose having the trial being taken to a military tribunal, reports CNN Indonesia. “They [Yeremia’s family] want the ... <a title="Family of murdered Papuan pastor want case tried in human rights court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/27/family-of-murdered-papuan-pastor-want-case-tried-in-human-rights-court/" aria-label="Read more about Family of murdered Papuan pastor want case tried in human rights court">Read more</a>
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December 27, 2020
OBITUARY: By Scott Waide in Lae For many Papua New Guineans, Sir Mekere Morauta will be remembered as the straight shooting politician and the reformist Prime Minister, whose work came to be appreciated more than a decade later. Up until the 1990s, Mekere Morauta’s public life was rather low key. He thrived behind the scenes, ... <a title="Sir Mekere, PNG’s straight shooting and reformist prime minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/27/sir-mekere-pngs-straight-shooting-and-reformist-prime-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Sir Mekere, PNG’s straight shooting and reformist prime minister">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>
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December 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University When, in the midst of the pandemic, the Economic Society of Australia invited 150 of Australia’s keenest young thinkers to come up with “brief, specific and actionable” proposals to improve the economy, amid scores of ... <a title="What’s the best way to boost the economy? Invest in high-voltage transmission lines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/25/whats-the-best-way-to-boost-the-economy-invest-in-high-voltage-transmission-lines-151921/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the best way to boost the economy? Invest in high-voltage transmission lines">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Baguley, Professor in Arts Education, Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Southern Queensland The success of Disney’s 1964 movie Mary Poppins has often obscured the fact the popular series of books describing the experiences of the enigmatic nanny were in fact written by the Australian born author ... <a title="Mary Shepard: the artist who brought Mary Poppins to life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/25/mary-shepard-the-artist-who-brought-mary-poppins-to-life-131150/" aria-label="Read more about Mary Shepard: the artist who brought Mary Poppins to life">Read more</a>
