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December 31, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Morteza Hajizadeh, Hajizadeh, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau An image of The Book of Kings shows a couple embracing with servants around them. Library of Congress, CC BY-SA For centuries, literature from Islamic regions, especially Iran, celebrated male homoerotic love as a symbol of beauty, mysticism ... <a title="Literature from Islamic societies embraced homoerotic love until the 19th century. What happened?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/31/literature-from-islamic-societies-embraced-homoerotic-love-until-the-19th-century-what-happened-266357/" aria-label="Read more about Literature from Islamic societies embraced homoerotic love until the 19th century. What happened?">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Brown, Lecturer in Math and Physics, CQUniversity Australia Pixabay/Pexels Fire is an ancient technology that has helped shape human evolution. Our ancestors used fire for safety, cooking and preserving food. They gathered around a flickering fire to share stories, pass on cultural knowledge and build community. ... <a title="What actually is fire? A physicist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/what-actually-is-fire-a-physicist-explains-269708/" aria-label="Read more about What actually is fire? A physicist explains">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Peden, NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health and Co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney Kindel Media/Pexels It’s summer so kids’ playdates and birthday parties might start moving from the playground to the pool. I research how to prevent drowning. I’m also a mum ... <a title="It’s a pool party! How to stay safe around the pool with friends this summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/its-a-pool-party-how-to-stay-safe-around-the-pool-with-friends-this-summer-268090/" aria-label="Read more about It’s a pool party! How to stay safe around the pool with friends this summer">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rumen Rachev, PhD Candidate, Edith Cowan University Thomas Koukas/Unsplash, CC BY-NC-ND As a scholar researching clouds, I have spent much of my time trying to understand the economy of the sky. Not the weather reports showing scudding rainclouds, but the deeper logic of cloud movements, their distributions ... <a title="Clouds are vital to life – but many are becoming wispy ghosts. Here’s how to see the changes above us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/clouds-are-vital-to-life-but-many-are-becoming-wispy-ghosts-heres-how-to-see-the-changes-above-us-265575/" aria-label="Read more about Clouds are vital to life – but many are becoming wispy ghosts. Here’s how to see the changes above us">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Brockett, Professor of Sport Systems Development, Victoria University Sport is one of the most climate-sensitive aspects of Australian life, yet still sits largely outside the national conversation on climate exposure. Sport attracts around 14 million participants annually in Australia. According to national data from July 2023 ... <a title="Can Australian sport ever be environmentally sustainable?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/can-australian-sport-ever-be-environmentally-sustainable-267545/" aria-label="Read more about Can Australian sport ever be environmentally sustainable?">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Dovey, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne Among his other ongoing projects, US President Donald Trump has spent much of his second term on a renovation. The Oval Office has been converted into a miniature palace festooned with gold bling, the rose ... <a title="Architecture isn’t neutral. It’s been shaping political power for millennia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/architecture-isnt-neutral-its-been-shaping-political-power-for-millennia-267742/" aria-label="Read more about Architecture isn’t neutral. It’s been shaping political power for millennia">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Burridge, Professor of Linguistics, Monash University Pinterest, Canva, Wikimedia, The Conversation, CC BY These days, human resources (HR) departments want us to use official titles for jobs. But we know the social truths of a job — how well that job gets done, whether we like ... <a title="Babblers, cops and quacks: the sometimes dark – but often amusing – origins of nicknames for jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/babblers-cops-and-quacks-the-sometimes-dark-but-often-amusing-origins-of-nicknames-for-jobs-270647/" aria-label="Read more about Babblers, cops and quacks: the sometimes dark – but often amusing – origins of nicknames for jobs">Read more</a>
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December 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, CC BY “All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments”, proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st-2nd century CE), the Roman poet. Today, 20,000 ... <a title="‘Weights of gold in bullion’: how the ancients invested in precious metals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/30/weights-of-gold-in-bullion-how-the-ancients-invested-in-precious-metals-268207/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: how the ancients invested in precious metals">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Walker, Visiting Fellow, National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University Emma Johnston, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne who has died aged 52, was a marine ecologist, a visionary leader in science and research, a passionate champion of the environment, a ... <a title="Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/29/emma-johnston-was-a-visionary-scientist-environmentalist-and-leader-with-an-abiding-hope-for-humanity-272609/" aria-label="Read more about Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jemima McPhee, PhD Candidate (Classics), Australian National University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World via Wikimedia, CC BY Ancient scientists can be easy to dismiss. Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West’s first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on water. ... <a title="5 lessons about misinformation from ancient Greek and Roman scientists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/29/5-lessons-about-misinformation-from-ancient-greek-and-roman-scientists-270941/" aria-label="Read more about 5 lessons about misinformation from ancient Greek and Roman scientists">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne davidf/Getty Images For many of us, listening to music is simply part of the driving routine – as ordinary as wearing a seatbelt. We build playlists for road trips, pick songs ... <a title="Music can affect your driving – but not always how you’d expect" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/29/music-can-affect-your-driving-but-not-always-how-youd-expect-268887/" aria-label="Read more about Music can affect your driving – but not always how you’d expect">Read more</a>
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December 29, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Johannes M. Luetz, Adjunct Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast; UNSW Sydney; Alphacrucis College The extinct desert rat kangaroo John Gould, Mammals of Australia (1845) The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has ... <a title="With every extinction, we lose not just a species but a treasure trove of knowledge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/12/29/with-every-extinction-we-lose-not-just-a-species-but-a-treasure-trove-of-knowledge-263717/" aria-label="Read more about With every extinction, we lose not just a species but a treasure trove of knowledge">Read more</a>
