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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jathan Sadowski, Research Fellow, Emerging Technologies Research Lab and CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Monash University Poster showing ‘The Leader of the Luddites’ (1812) Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA I’m a Luddite. This is not a hesitant confession, but a proud proclamation. I’m also a social scientist ... <a title="I’m a Luddite. You should be one too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/im-a-luddite-you-should-be-one-too-163172/" aria-label="Read more about I’m a Luddite. You should be one too">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shelley Hannigan, Senior Lecturer in Art Education, Deakin University Shutterstock This article is part of a series providing school students with evidence-based advice for choosing subjects in their senior years. If you’re thinking of taking a performing or visual arts subject in years 11 and 12, you ... <a title="Art, drama and music lower stress. Here’s what you need to know if you’re thinking of taking arts in years 11 and 12" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/art-drama-and-music-lower-stress-heres-what-you-need-to-know-if-youre-thinking-of-taking-arts-in-years-11-and-12-164713/" aria-label="Read more about Art, drama and music lower stress. Here’s what you need to know if you’re thinking of taking arts in years 11 and 12">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne AAP/Lukas Coch This week’s Newspoll, conducted August 4-7 from a sample of 1,527, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, unchanged from three weeks ago. Primary votes were 39% Coalition (steady), 39% Labor (steady), 11% Greens ... <a title="First negative Newspoll rating for Morrison since start of pandemic; 47% of unvaccinated would take Pfizer but not AstraZeneca" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/first-negative-newspoll-rating-for-morrison-since-start-of-pandemic-47-of-unvaccinated-would-take-pfizer-but-not-astrazeneca-165665/" aria-label="Read more about First negative Newspoll rating for Morrison since start of pandemic; 47% of unvaccinated would take Pfizer but not AstraZeneca">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phil Bellinger, Lecturer in exercise science, Griffith University The Tokyo Olympic Games have seen incredible performances in the short-distance track events. We have seen two major world records fall: the men’s and women’s 400-metre hurdles – and numerous personal best times. In the women’s 400-metre hurdles, five ... <a title="What’s behind the spate of super-fast sprints at the Tokyo Olympics? Technology plays a role, but the real answer is training" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/whats-behind-the-spate-of-super-fast-sprints-at-the-tokyo-olympics-technology-plays-a-role-but-the-real-answer-is-training-165737/" aria-label="Read more about What’s behind the spate of super-fast sprints at the Tokyo Olympics? Technology plays a role, but the real answer is training">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Klugman, Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP Murmurs regarding the decline of the Olympics appear to have been premature. Despite the well-founded critiques, doubts, concerns, and ambivalence before the Tokyo games began, they have ... <a title="The Olympics still have the power to inspire — and reveal our nastier impulses and hypocrisies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/the-olympics-still-have-the-power-to-inspire-and-reveal-our-nastier-impulses-and-hypocrisies-165602/" aria-label="Read more about The Olympics still have the power to inspire — and reveal our nastier impulses and hypocrisies">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Courtney Walton, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mental Health in Elite Sports, The University of Melbourne With the Olympics drawing to a close, many athletes will begin to turn their attention to a crucial yet daunting question: what’s next? The Olympic Games are a unique event, with the ... <a title="‘When you get home it’s really lonely’: new research shows how athletes cope with post-Olympic life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/when-you-get-home-its-really-lonely-new-research-shows-how-athletes-cope-with-post-olympic-life-163576/" aria-label="Read more about ‘When you get home it’s really lonely’: new research shows how athletes cope with post-Olympic life">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Fletcher, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Finance Minister Grant Robertson delivering the 2021 budget, which included the proposed social insurance policy. GettyImages If it goes ahead, the social insurance scheme currently being discussed behind ... <a title="Why is New Zealand’s Labour government trying to push through a two-tier benefit system?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/why-is-new-zealands-labour-government-trying-to-push-through-a-two-tier-benefit-system-165615/" aria-label="Read more about Why is New Zealand’s Labour government trying to push through a two-tier benefit system?">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Denholm, Associate Professor, Melbourne Health from www.shutterstock.com By some estimates, 2 billion people are now infected worldwide, and in 2019, around 1.4 million people died from it. It’s a pandemic infection, spread through the air — but it’s not COVID. It’s tuberculosis (or TB). Yet we’re ... <a title="Tuberculosis, the forgotten pandemic relying on a 100-year-old vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/tuberculosis-the-forgotten-pandemic-relying-on-a-100-year-old-vaccine-165303/" aria-label="Read more about Tuberculosis, the forgotten pandemic relying on a 100-year-old vaccine">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nerilie Abram, Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, Australian National University Shutterstock The much-awaited new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is due later today. Ahead of the ... <a title="Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions – but the technology remains a powerful tool" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/yes-a-few-climate-models-give-unexpected-predictions-but-the-technology-remains-a-powerful-tool-165611/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions – but the technology remains a powerful tool">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Kristin Merga, Honorary Adjunct, University of Newcastle; Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University Johnny McClung/Unsplash Parents at a loss to find activities for their children during COVID lockdowns can encourage them to escape into a book. New research shows how reading books can help young ... <a title="Books offer a healing retreat for youngsters caught up in a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/books-offer-a-healing-retreat-for-youngsters-caught-up-in-a-pandemic-165247/" aria-label="Read more about Books offer a healing retreat for youngsters caught up in a pandemic">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Nils Versemann/Shutterstock Crown Resorts was very sorry it had done so many wrong things in running its Melbourne casino, the company’s senior counsel, Michael Borsky, last week told Victoria’s Finkelstein royal commission. But his ... <a title="Crown Resorts is not too big to fail. It has failed already" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/crown-resorts-is-not-too-big-to-fail-it-has-failed-already-165659/" aria-label="Read more about Crown Resorts is not too big to fail. It has failed already">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth McHugh-Dillon, Lecturer in European Languages (Spanish and Latin American Studies), Monash University Nationaal Archief, CC0 If you haven’t heard of Nada, one of the most important European novels of the 20th century, you’re not alone. Written in a few short months by Carmen Laforet, it was ... <a title="Guide to the Classics: Carmen Laforet’s Nada captures longing and desire in post-war Spain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/09/guide-to-the-classics-carmen-laforets-nada-captures-longing-and-desire-in-post-war-spain-164495/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the Classics: Carmen Laforet’s Nada captures longing and desire in post-war Spain">Read more</a>
