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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edith Jennifer Hill, PhD Candidate, Flinders University Instagram/ Showmenoodz On the 4th of December, TikTok user @jongraz announced his beloved pet, a pug named Noodle, had died aged 14. The announcement video received over 19 million views and 4 million likes, a testament to how widely loved ... <a title="The ultimate no bones day: the death of TikTok pug Noodle shows how we can grieve online for animals we’ve never met" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/the-ultimate-no-bones-day-the-death-of-tiktok-pug-noodle-shows-how-we-can-grieve-online-for-animals-weve-never-met-196046/" aria-label="Read more about The ultimate no bones day: the death of TikTok pug Noodle shows how we can grieve online for animals we’ve never met">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Thorpe, Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato Getty Images The release this week of Sport NZ’s new Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport caused a minor and predictable controversy. One former parliamentarian called the guidelines “woke ideology”. ... <a title="Sport NZ’s transgender guidelines are a good start – but can they filter up from grassroots to elite competition?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/sport-nzs-transgender-guidelines-are-a-good-start-but-can-they-filter-up-from-grassroots-to-elite-competition-196123/" aria-label="Read more about Sport NZ’s transgender guidelines are a good start – but can they filter up from grassroots to elite competition?">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Johari Amar, Lecturer in Property, Bond University Australians desperately need more affordable homes, particularly homes for rent. The prospect of home ownership is rapidly receding for many people, especially younger generations (as the chart below shows). More people than ever are being forced into a tight rental ... <a title="Build-to-rent is seen as affordable, but it’s unlikely to help those most in need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/build-to-rent-is-seen-as-affordable-but-its-unlikely-to-help-those-most-in-need-194623/" aria-label="Read more about Build-to-rent is seen as affordable, but it’s unlikely to help those most in need">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Sandeman, Honorary Professor, Federation University Australia César Couto/Unsplash Demodex are a family of eight-legged mites that live in the hair follicles and associated sebaceous or oil glands of many mammals. Two species are known in humans – Demodex folliculorum, which lives mainly in hair follicles on ... <a title="Invisible skin mites called Demodex almost certainly live on your face – but what about your mascara?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/invisible-skin-mites-called-demodex-almost-certainly-live-on-your-face-but-what-about-your-mascara-195451/" aria-label="Read more about Invisible skin mites called Demodex almost certainly live on your face – but what about your mascara?">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Lindsey, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne Indonesia’s controversial new criminal code was passed into law on Tuesday, replacing a clunky old code dating back to at least 1918. Lawmakers have ... <a title="Indonesia’s new criminal code isn’t just about sex outside marriage. It endangers press and religious freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/indonesias-new-criminal-code-isnt-just-about-sex-outside-marriage-it-endangers-press-and-religious-freedom-196121/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia’s new criminal code isn’t just about sex outside marriage. It endangers press and religious freedom">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can invent is nearly 200 years old, going back to the very beginning of computing. Victorian mathematician Ada Lovelace wrote what’s generally considered the first computer program. ... <a title="Can machines invent things without human help? These AI examples show the answer is ‘yes’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/can-machines-invent-things-without-human-help-these-ai-examples-show-the-answer-is-yes-196036/" aria-label="Read more about Can machines invent things without human help? These AI examples show the answer is ‘yes’">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Morten Allentoft, Professor, Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University Beth Zaiken At the icy northern tip of Greenland, far into the Artic Circle, a deep bed of sediment beneath the mouth of a fjord has lain frozen and undisturbed for 2 million years. Known as the Kap ... <a title="The oldest DNA ever found reveals a snapshot of a vanished world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/the-oldest-dna-ever-found-reveals-a-snapshot-of-a-vanished-world-196044/" aria-label="Read more about The oldest DNA ever found reveals a snapshot of a vanished world">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clarice Tang, Senior lecturer in Physiotherapy, Western Sydney University Shutterstock Treating people for long COVID – that is, symptoms that last longer than four weeks after COVID infection – can be extremely complex due to the wide variety of problems associated with the condition. While there is ... <a title="How physios and occupational therapists are helping long COVID sufferers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/how-physios-and-occupational-therapists-are-helping-long-covid-sufferers-195354/" aria-label="Read more about How physios and occupational therapists are helping long COVID sufferers">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle H. Heinrichs, Researcher, Griffith Institute of Educational Research, Griffith University International students are flooding back to Australian universities. Some predictions say 2023 could even see record numbers of overseas students in the country. This is not only good news for universities, but potentially good news for ... <a title="Australia wants international students to stay and work after graduation. They find it difficult for 4 reasons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/australia-wants-international-students-to-stay-and-work-after-graduation-they-find-it-difficult-for-4-reasons-191259/" aria-label="Read more about Australia wants international students to stay and work after graduation. They find it difficult for 4 reasons">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giuseppe Carabetta, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Australia’s first criminal case over wage theft is under way, with charges laid against the owner of a Victorian restaurant that allegedly underpaid staff by thousands of dollars. If found guilty, the owner of the Macedon Lounge, northwest ... <a title="Wage theft has reached pandemic proportions, so why hasn’t the Albanese government criminalised it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/wage-theft-has-reached-pandemic-proportions-so-why-hasnt-the-albanese-government-criminalised-it-195804/" aria-label="Read more about Wage theft has reached pandemic proportions, so why hasn’t the Albanese government criminalised it?">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Throsby, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University Kazuo ota/Unsplash Artists all over the world, regardless of their gender, earn considerably less than professionals in occupations requiring similar levels of education and qualifications. But there’s an additional income penalty for artists who are female. In an analysis ... <a title="Female artists earn less than men. Coming from a diverse cultural background incurs even more of a penalty – but there is good news, too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/female-artists-earn-less-than-men-coming-from-a-diverse-cultural-background-incurs-even-more-of-a-penalty-but-there-is-good-news-too-195646/" aria-label="Read more about Female artists earn less than men. Coming from a diverse cultural background incurs even more of a penalty – but there is good news, too">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australians are currently confronting a cost of living crisis that includes soaring energy prices. Ministers have been working for weeks on a strategy to contain the prices of coal and gas, driven up by the fallout from the Ukraine war. ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Energy crisis has ‘badly damaged’ social licence of coal and gas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/07/politics-with-michelle-grattan-energy-crisis-has-badly-damaged-social-licence-of-coal-and-gas-196140/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Energy crisis has ‘badly damaged’ social licence of coal and gas">Read more</a>
