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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Webb, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology 3D visualisation of gravitational waves produced by two orbiting black holes. Henze/NASA What are gravitational waves? – Millie, age 10, Sydney What a great question Millie! To answer this we have to travel ... <a title="Curious Kids: what are gravitational waves?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/curious-kids-what-are-gravitational-waves-190830/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: what are gravitational waves?">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Wayland, Associate Professor, University of New England The thought of her, as always, gave me a jolt of hope, and a burst of energy. And a stab of sorrow. Prince Harry’s reflection on his mother Princess Diana, who died unexpectedly when he was just 12 years ... <a title="What Prince Harry’s memoir Spare tells us about ‘complicated grief’ and the long-term impact of losing a mother so young" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/what-prince-harrys-memoir-spare-tells-us-about-complicated-grief-and-the-long-term-impact-of-losing-a-mother-so-young-197611/" aria-label="Read more about What Prince Harry’s memoir Spare tells us about ‘complicated grief’ and the long-term impact of losing a mother so young">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Jean Baker, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University Focus Features Aussiewood sprinkled its star dust at this year’s 80th Golden Globes with five nominations and a fourth acting win for Cate Blanchett, this time her performance as a renowned German conductor in Todd Field’s Tár. The ... <a title="From Cate Blanchett to Baz Luhrmann: Aussiewood at the 80th Golden Globe Awards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/from-cate-blanchett-to-baz-luhrmann-aussiewood-at-the-80th-golden-globe-awards-196808/" aria-label="Read more about From Cate Blanchett to Baz Luhrmann: Aussiewood at the 80th Golden Globe Awards">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Libby (Elizabeth) Sander, MBA Director & Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich/Pexels, CC BY If you’ve found yourself feeling a bit flat after returning to work (or outright hating your job) this year, you’re not alone. #BackToWork is trending ... <a title="Feeling flat now you’re #BackToWork? A post-holiday slump is normal, but these clues signal it’s time for a new job" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/feeling-flat-now-youre-backtowork-a-post-holiday-slump-is-normal-but-these-clues-signal-its-time-for-a-new-job-194641/" aria-label="Read more about Feeling flat now you’re #BackToWork? A post-holiday slump is normal, but these clues signal it’s time for a new job">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Young, Kernot Professor of Engineering, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Across much of the world’s oceans, waves are getting bigger. In the Southern Ocean, where storm-driven swell can propagate halfway across the world to California, the average wave has grown about 20cm in the past 30 ... <a title="What does climate change mean for extreme waves? In 80% of the world, we don’t really know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/what-does-climate-change-mean-for-extreme-waves-in-80-of-the-world-we-dont-really-know-197526/" aria-label="Read more about What does climate change mean for extreme waves? In 80% of the world, we don’t really know">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Barros Leal Farias, Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney On Sunday January 8, radical supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro invaded and vandalised buildings that house Brazil’s congress, supreme court and presidential palace. Since then, over 1,500 people have been detained. The Governor of the Federal District, legally ... <a title="What now for Brazil? President Lula strengthened, but Bolsonaro supporters won’t go quietly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/what-now-for-brazil-president-lula-strengthened-but-bolsonaro-supporters-wont-go-quietly-197530/" aria-label="Read more about What now for Brazil? President Lula strengthened, but Bolsonaro supporters won’t go quietly">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Beckett, Senior Lecturer (Food Science and Human Nutrition), School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Pexels, CC BY New year, new you, new diet. It’s a familiar refrain. One popular dieting technique is to create a food blacklist. Quitting “carbs” or packaged foods is ... <a title="Stop hating on pasta – it actually has a healthy ratio of carbs, protein and fat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/stop-hating-on-pasta-it-actually-has-a-healthy-ratio-of-carbs-protein-and-fat-197416/" aria-label="Read more about Stop hating on pasta – it actually has a healthy ratio of carbs, protein and fat">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Anjum Naveed/AP In 2022, a third La Niña year brought much rain to Australia and Southeast Asia and dry conditions to the other side of the Pacific. These patterns were ... <a title="New report shows alarming changes in the entire global water cycle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/new-report-shows-alarming-changes-in-the-entire-global-water-cycle-197535/" aria-label="Read more about New report shows alarming changes in the entire global water cycle">Read more</a>
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January 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University Shutterstock The housing wealth gap between younger and older Australians is undeniably growing. Our newly published study attempts to find out how much it has grown by estimating the gap in the home equity of ... <a title="The housing wealth gap between older and younger Australians has widened alarmingly in the past 30 years. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/12/the-housing-wealth-gap-between-older-and-younger-australians-has-widened-alarmingly-in-the-past-30-years-heres-why-197027/" aria-label="Read more about The housing wealth gap between older and younger Australians has widened alarmingly in the past 30 years. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miles Pattenden, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University Former senior Vatican figure George Pell has died in Rome from complications following hip surgery. He was 81. Pell, often described as a conservative Catholic, was jailed for 13 months for child sexual ... <a title="George Pell: a ‘political bruiser’ whose church legacy will be overshadowed by child abuse allegations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/11/george-pell-a-political-bruiser-whose-church-legacy-will-be-overshadowed-by-child-abuse-allegations-197613/" aria-label="Read more about George Pell: a ‘political bruiser’ whose church legacy will be overshadowed by child abuse allegations">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Sparrow, Professor, Department of Philosophy; Adjunct Professor, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University Shutterstock Last Saturday night, a young woman out on the town in Brisbane saw a dog-shaped robot trotting towards her and did what many of us might have felt an urge to do: ... <a title="Is it OK to kick a robot dog?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/11/is-it-ok-to-kick-a-robot-dog-197538/" aria-label="Read more about Is it OK to kick a robot dog?">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University Tbel Abuseridze Around 1% of Australian adults have tried heroin in their lifetime and 2.7% have used pharmaceutical opioids for non-medical purposes in the past 12 months. These drugs attach to the opioid receptors in ... <a title="How does methadone work as a heroin-replacement therapy? And what about the longer-acting buprenorphine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/11/how-does-methadone-work-as-a-heroin-replacement-therapy-and-what-about-the-longer-acting-buprenorphine-189692/" aria-label="Read more about How does methadone work as a heroin-replacement therapy? And what about the longer-acting buprenorphine?">Read more</a>