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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Hart, Graduate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW A typical Australian PhD often involves a focused research project at one university, with one to two supervisors, and often far from your home or home country. It can be a quite isolating experience. PhD ... <a title="PhD students need support at the best of the times. How can you help in a pandemic?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/phd-students-need-support-at-the-best-of-the-times-how-can-you-help-in-a-pandemic-144799/" aria-label="Read more about PhD students need support at the best of the times. How can you help in a pandemic?">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University Passwords have been used for thousands of years, as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to computers. It’s a simple concept – a shared piece of information, kept secret between individuals ... <a title="A computer can guess more than 100,000,000,000 passwords per second. Still think yours is secure?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/a-computer-can-guess-more-than-100-000-000-000-passwords-per-second-still-think-yours-is-secure-144418/" aria-label="Read more about A computer can guess more than 100,000,000,000 passwords per second. Still think yours is secure?">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marguerite Johnson, Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle Throughout antiquity, from the Mediterranean to Egypt and today’s Middle East, people believed that misfortune, including accidents, diseases, and sometimes even death, were caused by external forces. Be they gods or other types of supernatural forces (such as a ... <a title="Scarabs, phalluses, evil eyes — how ancient amulets tried to ward off disease" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/scarabs-phalluses-evil-eyes-how-ancient-amulets-tried-to-ward-off-disease-143842/" aria-label="Read more about Scarabs, phalluses, evil eyes — how ancient amulets tried to ward off disease">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nigel French, Professor of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Massey University Genome sequencing — the mapping of the genetic sequences of an organism — has helped track the spread of COVID-19 cases in Auckland, but it also plays an important role in the control of other ... <a title="COVID-19 is not the only infectious disease New Zealand wants to eliminate, and genome sequencing is a crucial tool" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/covid-19-is-not-the-only-infectious-disease-new-zealand-wants-to-eliminate-and-genome-sequencing-is-a-crucial-tool-145695/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 is not the only infectious disease New Zealand wants to eliminate, and genome sequencing is a crucial tool">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Last weekend’s “anti-lockdown” protest in Auckland provided a snapshot of the various conspiracy theories and grievances circulating online and within the community: masks, vaccination, QAnon, 5G technology, government tyranny and COVID-19 were all in the mix. The “freedom rally” ... <a title="With the election campaign underway, can the law protect voters from fake news and conspiracy theories?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/with-the-election-campaign-underway-can-the-law-protect-voters-from-fake-news-and-conspiracy-theories-146095/" aria-label="Read more about With the election campaign underway, can the law protect voters from fake news and conspiracy theories?">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Jobert Bercasio, also known as “Polpog,” was killed instantly at around 8 pm by five shots fired from an F-16 rifle near his home in the Seabreeze Homes district of Sorsogon City. Witnesses told police he was shot by two men on a motorcycle who immediately made their getaway. The F-16 is an assault rifle ... <a title="Motorcycle hitmen kill Philippine reporter who covered mining" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/motorcycle-hitmen-kill-philippine-reporter-who-covered-mining/" aria-label="Read more about Motorcycle hitmen kill Philippine reporter who covered mining">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific Journalist A Fijian psychologist is calling on people in Fiji to work together to tackle issues associated with mental health amid the covid-19 pandemic. Addressing a prayer vigil to remember the victims of suicide in Suva, Dr Selina Kuruleca said people must assist one another and reach out to those ... <a title="Call for unity over mental health in Fiji amid covid-19 virus pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/call-for-unity-over-mental-health-in-fiji-amid-covid-19-virus-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Call for unity over mental health in Fiji amid covid-19 virus pandemic">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura McKemmish, Lecturer, UNSW The discovery that the atmosphere of Venus absorbs a precise frequency of microwave radiation has just turned planetary science on its head. An international team of scientists used radio telescopes in Hawaii and Chile to find signs that the clouds on Earth’s neighbouring ... <a title="Life on Venus? Traces of phosphine may be a sign of biological activity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/life-on-venus-traces-of-phosphine-may-be-a-sign-of-biological-activity-146093/" aria-label="Read more about Life on Venus? Traces of phosphine may be a sign of biological activity">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Jackman, Chief Executive Officer, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney With less than two months until the US presidential election, Democratic nominee Joe Biden leads incumbent Donald Trump in the bulk of opinion polls. But poll-based election forecasts have proved problematic before. The polls were widely ... <a title="The US presidential election might be closer than the polls suggest (if we can trust them this time)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/the-us-presidential-election-might-be-closer-than-the-polls-suggest-if-we-can-trust-them-this-time-141988/" aria-label="Read more about The US presidential election might be closer than the polls suggest (if we can trust them this time)">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Stanisic, Associate Research Leader, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University More than 28 million people around the world have now contracted COVID-19, and more than 900,000 people have died. Research groups across the globe are rightly racing to find a vaccine to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus ... <a title="COVID-19 isn’t the only infectious disease scientists are trying to find a vaccine for. Here are 3 others" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/covid-19-isnt-the-only-infectious-disease-scientists-are-trying-to-find-a-vaccine-for-here-are-3-others-145271/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 isn’t the only infectious disease scientists are trying to find a vaccine for. Here are 3 others">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Bridge, Senior Curator – Corals, James Cook University Look at this photo of two coral skeletons below. You’d be forgiven for thinking they’re the same species, or at least closely related, but looks can be deceiving. These two species diverged tens of millions of years ago, ... <a title="The first step to conserving the Great Barrier Reef is understanding what lives there" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/the-first-step-to-conserving-the-great-barrier-reef-is-understanding-what-lives-there-146097/" aria-label="Read more about The first step to conserving the Great Barrier Reef is understanding what lives there">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mehran Nejati, Senior Lecturer in Management, Edith Cowan University We spend, on average, about 90,000 hours at work. Given this, most of us want work that’s more than just a source of income. We want work that’s satisfying, significant, valuable. Work, in other words, that is meaningful. ... <a title="3 keys to meaningful work: an employer who cares about the environment, society and you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/3-keys-to-meaningful-work-an-employer-who-cares-about-the-environment-society-and-you-132761/" aria-label="Read more about 3 keys to meaningful work: an employer who cares about the environment, society and you">Read more</a>
