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El Niño combined with global warming means big changes for New Zealand’s weather

June 13, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland Getty Images El Niño is officially here, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and with it comes a change from the La Niña weather patterns New Zealand has experienced for the past three years. ... <a title="El Niño combined with global warming means big changes for New Zealand’s weather" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/el-nino-combined-with-global-warming-means-big-changes-for-new-zealands-weather-207493/" aria-label="Read more about El Niño combined with global warming means big changes for New Zealand’s weather">Read more</a>

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Do you need to wash rice before cooking? Here’s the science

June 13, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia Shutterstock Rice is a staple food for billions of people in Asia and Africa. It’s also a versatile ingredient for many iconic dishes from around the world, including dolmades from Greece, ... <a title="Do you need to wash rice before cooking? Here’s the science" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/do-you-need-to-wash-rice-before-cooking-heres-the-science-204692/" aria-label="Read more about Do you need to wash rice before cooking? Here’s the science">Read more</a>

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A silver lining from the pandemic: how lockdowns helped kids learn the languages their parents speak

June 13, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liquan Liu, Senior lecturer, Western Sydney University Shutterstock None of us is a stranger to the downsides of the pandemic. For families with kids, kindergartens and schools closed during the lockdown, and parents had to manage schooling and working from home. Yet there is a silver lining: ... <a title="A silver lining from the pandemic: how lockdowns helped kids learn the languages their parents speak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/a-silver-lining-from-the-pandemic-how-lockdowns-helped-kids-learn-the-languages-their-parents-speak-205012/" aria-label="Read more about A silver lining from the pandemic: how lockdowns helped kids learn the languages their parents speak">Read more</a>

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We’re in another COVID wave. But it’s not like the others

June 13, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Wood, Professor, epidemiological modelling of infectious diseases, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Each Omicron wave so far in Australia has had distinguishing features – the sharp rise and fall of BA.1, the widespread transmission among children and families in BA.2, a shift to more infections in older people ... <a title="We’re in another COVID wave. But it’s not like the others" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/were-in-another-covid-wave-but-its-not-like-the-others-206493/" aria-label="Read more about We’re in another COVID wave. But it’s not like the others">Read more</a>

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The case for compost: why recycling food waste is so much better than sending it to landfill

June 13, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susanne Schmidt, Professor – School of Agriculture and Food Science, The University of Queensland New Africa, Shutterstock Most food and garden waste in Australia comes from homes. Australian households waste 3.1 million tonnes of food each year. That’s more than five kilograms each household per week. Over ... <a title="The case for compost: why recycling food waste is so much better than sending it to landfill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/the-case-for-compost-why-recycling-food-waste-is-so-much-better-than-sending-it-to-landfill-205583/" aria-label="Read more about The case for compost: why recycling food waste is so much better than sending it to landfill">Read more</a>

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How should we teach climate change in schools? It starts with ‘turbo charging’ teacher education

June 13, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Russell Tytler, Professor of science education, Deakin University Bianca De Marchi/AAP The case for action on climate change no longer needs to be laid out. We see, almost daily, disturbing images of bushfires, floods or a mass extinction crisis. But however widespread that sense of urgency may ... <a title="How should we teach climate change in schools? It starts with ‘turbo charging’ teacher education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/how-should-we-teach-climate-change-in-schools-it-starts-with-turbo-charging-teacher-education-207221/" aria-label="Read more about How should we teach climate change in schools? It starts with ‘turbo charging’ teacher education">Read more</a>

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How Jurassic Park changed film-making and our view of dinosaurs

June 13, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Travis Holland, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Charles Sturt University IMDB In June 1993, director Steven Spielberg released a film that unleashed a wave of technological change in film-making and simultaneously helped to revive popular interest in dinosaurs. Jurassic Park, based on Michael Crichton’s novel, spawned five blockbuster ... <a title="How Jurassic Park changed film-making and our view of dinosaurs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/how-jurassic-park-changed-film-making-and-our-view-of-dinosaurs-203147/" aria-label="Read more about How Jurassic Park changed film-making and our view of dinosaurs">Read more</a>

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View from The Hill: Brittany Higgins story continues its damaging trail, with no end in sight

June 12, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Brittany Higgins saga has damaged almost everyone it has touched, or who’s touched it. It will forever haunt Higgins, who alleged she was raped in 2019 in a minister’s office, and Bruce Lehrmann, who denied committing the alleged assault. ... <a title="View from The Hill: Brittany Higgins story continues its damaging trail, with no end in sight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/view-from-the-hill-brittany-higgins-story-continues-its-damaging-trail-with-no-end-in-sight-207500/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Brittany Higgins story continues its damaging trail, with no end in sight">Read more</a>

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Yes, federal charges against a former president are unprecedented – but so is Trump’s political power

June 12, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jared Mondschein, Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney George Walker IV/AP/AAP Since Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy eight years ago this week, few words have been more overused than “unprecedented”. It was unprecedented for a previously unelected politician who had never served a ... <a title="Yes, federal charges against a former president are unprecedented – but so is Trump’s political power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/yes-federal-charges-against-a-former-president-are-unprecedented-but-so-is-trumps-political-power-207408/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, federal charges against a former president are unprecedented – but so is Trump’s political power">Read more</a>

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Has a mathematician solved the ‘invariant subspace problem’? And what does that even mean?

June 12, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Brownlowe, Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney Michael Dziedzic / Unsplash Two weeks ago, a modest-looking paper was uploaded to the arXiv preprint server with the unassuming title “On the invariant subspace problem in Hilbert spaces”. The paper is just ... <a title="Has a mathematician solved the ‘invariant subspace problem’? And what does that even mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/has-a-mathematician-solved-the-invariant-subspace-problem-and-what-does-that-even-mean-206859/" aria-label="Read more about Has a mathematician solved the ‘invariant subspace problem’? And what does that even mean?">Read more</a>

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Succession on the Tibetan plateau: what’s at stake in the battle over the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation?

June 12, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Powers, Lecturer In Buddhism Studies, The University of Melbourne Ashwini Bhatia/AP In China, a group of atheists (the Chinese Communist Party) has long dictated how the country’s religious groups should practice their faiths. Chinese Christians are told to reject salvation by faith and the Resurrection; their ... <a title="Succession on the Tibetan plateau: what’s at stake in the battle over the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/succession-on-the-tibetan-plateau-whats-at-stake-in-the-battle-over-the-dalai-lamas-reincarnation-202353/" aria-label="Read more about Succession on the Tibetan plateau: what’s at stake in the battle over the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation?">Read more</a>

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What’s a TENS machine? Can it help my period pain or endometriosis?

June 12, 2023

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Armour, Associate Professor at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University Shutterstock If you’ve been on social media recently you might have noticed sponsored posts and ads for a variety of small, portable electrical devices. These claim to manage period or endometriosis pain safely and without ... <a title="What’s a TENS machine? Can it help my period pain or endometriosis?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/whats-a-tens-machine-can-it-help-my-period-pain-or-endometriosis-201389/" aria-label="Read more about What’s a TENS machine? Can it help my period pain or endometriosis?">Read more</a>