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April 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ralph Sims, Emeritus Professor, Energy and Climate Mitigation, Massey University Gary Hershorn/Getty Images Emissions from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases CO₂, methane, CFCs and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming ... <a title="The IPCC’s calls for emissions cuts have gone unheeded for too long – should it change the way it reports on climate change?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/24/the-ipccs-calls-for-emissions-cuts-have-gone-unheeded-for-too-long-should-it-change-the-way-it-reports-on-climate-change-202837/" aria-label="Read more about The IPCC’s calls for emissions cuts have gone unheeded for too long – should it change the way it reports on climate change?">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Pender, Kidman Chair in Australian Studies and Director, JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide Barry Humphries began his career as a Dadaist. His street performances around Melbourne in the early 1950s foreshadowed performance art in Australia. He was the most daring student prankster ... <a title="Remembering Barry Humphries, the man who enriched the culture, reimagined the one man show and upended the cultural cringe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/23/remembering-barry-humphries-the-man-who-enriched-the-culture-reimagined-the-one-man-show-and-upended-the-cultural-cringe-188719/" aria-label="Read more about Remembering Barry Humphries, the man who enriched the culture, reimagined the one man show and upended the cultural cringe">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alon Loeffler, PhD researcher, University of Sydney Shutterstock Over the past year or so, generative AI models such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have made it possible to produce vast quantities of apparently human-like, high-quality creative content from a simple series of prompts. Though highly capable – far ... <a title="Networks of silver nanowires seem to learn and remember, much like our brains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/22/networks-of-silver-nanowires-seem-to-learn-and-remember-much-like-our-brains-204115/" aria-label="Read more about Networks of silver nanowires seem to learn and remember, much like our brains">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney Julentto Photography/Unsplash A quick search on the internet for “climate change images” readily yields the familiar photograph of a lone polar bear on a shrinking block of ice. ... <a title="Most people already think climate change is ‘here and now’, despite what we’ve been told" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/22/most-people-already-think-climate-change-is-here-and-now-despite-what-weve-been-told-203425/" aria-label="Read more about Most people already think climate change is ‘here and now’, despite what we’ve been told">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Harry Hobbs, Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney The federal government today released the long-awaited legal advice on the Voice to parliament from Australia’s solicitor-general, Stephen Donaghue. In it, Donaghue states that the proposed model for the Voice “will not fetter or impede the exercise of existing ... <a title="Solicitor-general confirms Voice model is legally sound, will not ‘fetter or impede’ parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/solicitor-general-confirms-voice-model-is-legally-sound-will-not-fetter-or-impede-parliament-204266/" aria-label="Read more about Solicitor-general confirms Voice model is legally sound, will not ‘fetter or impede’ parliament">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology Facebook The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s latest Targeting Scams report indicates Australians reported more than A$3 billion lost to fraud in 2022. This is about a $1 ... <a title="Australians lost more than $3bn to scammers in 2022. Here are 5 emerging scams to look out for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/australians-lost-more-than-3bn-to-scammers-in-2022-here-are-5-emerging-scams-to-look-out-for-204018/" aria-label="Read more about Australians lost more than $3bn to scammers in 2022. Here are 5 emerging scams to look out for">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Crotty, Associate Professor in Australian History, The University of Queensland An Australian Imperial Force memorial card for Nicholas Permakoff, a Russian-born Australian private who deserted the AIF during WWI. Author provided Anzac Day continues to feature on the Australian calendar as a day for celebrating and ... <a title="Challenging the Anzac ideal: the tragic stories of two Australian deserters in WWI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/challenging-the-anzac-ideal-the-tragic-stories-of-two-australian-deserters-in-wwi-199516/" aria-label="Read more about Challenging the Anzac ideal: the tragic stories of two Australian deserters in WWI">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Dwyer, Research Director – Energy Futures, University of Technology Sydney Australia has long had a love affair with the internal combustion engine. Its first petrol-powered car was developed in 1901. (Admittedly, the engine was imported from Germany.) Roll forward 122 years and there’s now a registered ... <a title="Australia’s adoption of electric vehicles has been maddeningly slow, but we’re well placed to catch up fast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/australias-adoption-of-electric-vehicles-has-been-maddeningly-slow-but-were-well-placed-to-catch-up-fast-203923/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s adoption of electric vehicles has been maddeningly slow, but we’re well placed to catch up fast">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Celine Marshall, Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Otago Getty Images The COVID “lab leak” story clearly isn’t going away soon. The theory that the pandemic began with an accidental release of the virus from a lab in Wuhan recurs like clockwork – most recently in ... <a title="Plagues, poisons and magical thinking – how COVID lab leak hysteria could be straight from the Middle Ages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/plagues-poisons-and-magical-thinking-how-covid-lab-leak-hysteria-could-be-straight-from-the-middle-ages-204025/" aria-label="Read more about Plagues, poisons and magical thinking – how COVID lab leak hysteria could be straight from the Middle Ages">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charlotte Ganderton, Senior lecturer (Physiotherapy), Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock You might have seen media articles or fitness influencers online urging people to do “dead hangs”, where one hangs loosely from a bar – usually with feet off the floor. The goal is usually to improve upper-body ... <a title="What are dead hangs? What are the shoulder pain risks and how do I do them safely?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/what-are-dead-hangs-what-are-the-shoulder-pain-risks-and-how-do-i-do-them-safely-202346/" aria-label="Read more about What are dead hangs? What are the shoulder pain risks and how do I do them safely?">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rossana Ruggeri, Research Fellow in Cosmology, The University of Queensland ESA / Hubble & NASA Physicists believe most of the matter in the universe is made up of an invisible substance that we only know about by its indirect effects on the stars and galaxies we can ... <a title="New look at ‘Einstein rings’ around distant galaxies just got us closer to solving the dark matter debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/new-look-at-einstein-rings-around-distant-galaxies-just-got-us-closer-to-solving-the-dark-matter-debate-204109/" aria-label="Read more about New look at ‘Einstein rings’ around distant galaxies just got us closer to solving the dark matter debate">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeffrey McNeill, Senior Lecturer in Resource & Environmental Planning, Massey University Captured German trenches near Messines, June 1917. Daily Herald Archive / Getty Images It was observed […] that the English had slain wounded and captured German prisoners. So reads a disturbing war diary entry of the ... <a title="Less than illustrious: remembering the Anzacs means also not forgetting some committed war crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/less-than-illustrious-remembering-the-anzacs-means-also-not-forgetting-some-committed-war-crimes-203043/" aria-label="Read more about Less than illustrious: remembering the Anzacs means also not forgetting some committed war crimes">Read more</a>
