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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Welch, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland New variants of SARS-CoV-2 have now evaded New Zealand’s border protections twice to spread into the community. In the most recent outbreak, which placed Auckland into an alert level 3 lockdown, there are three active community cases of the more ... <a title="Why more contagious variants are emerging now, more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/why-more-contagious-variants-are-emerging-now-more-than-a-year-into-the-covid-19-pandemic-155302/" aria-label="Read more about Why more contagious variants are emerging now, more than a year into the COVID-19 pandemic">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Purdie, Senior Research Fellow, University of Otago As fossil fuels are phased out over the coming decades, the Climate Change Commission (CCC) suggests electricity will take up much of the slack, powering our vehicle fleet and replacing coal and gas in industrial processes. But can the ... <a title="As NZ gets serious about climate change, can electricity replace fossil fuels in time?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/as-nz-gets-serious-about-climate-change-can-electricity-replace-fossil-fuels-in-time-155123/" aria-label="Read more about As NZ gets serious about climate change, can electricity replace fossil fuels in time?">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University If I offered you money for something, an offer you didn’t have to accept, would you call it a grab? What if I actually owned the thing I offered you money for, and the offer ... <a title="The TV networks holding back the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/the-tv-networks-holding-back-the-future-155220/" aria-label="Read more about The TV networks holding back the future">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damian Lettoof, PhD Candidate, Curtin University Australia’s wetlands are home to a huge range of stunning flora and fauna, with large snakes often at the top of the food chain. Many wetlands are located near urban areas. This makes them particularly susceptible to contamination as stormwater, urban ... <a title="We tested tiger snake scales to measure wetland pollution in Perth. The news is worse than expected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/we-tested-tiger-snake-scales-to-measure-wetland-pollution-in-perth-the-news-is-worse-than-expected-153797/" aria-label="Read more about We tested tiger snake scales to measure wetland pollution in Perth. The news is worse than expected">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Indigo Holcombe-James, Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University “Nobody is a technical specialist,” one committee member at an artist-run initiative (ARI) told me about moving their activities online under COVID lockdowns. The [volunteer] who is doing our website content at the moment is a contemporary art photographer. Galleries ... <a title="‘Only so much I can do’: COVID-19 cast a harsh light on the digital divide of Australian art galleries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/only-so-much-i-can-do-covid-19-cast-a-harsh-light-on-the-digital-divide-of-australian-art-galleries-151483/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Only so much I can do’: COVID-19 cast a harsh light on the digital divide of Australian art galleries">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Meade, Research Fellow in Economics, and in Social Sciences & Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology Faced with a COVID-19 pandemic of unknown severity and duration, governments around the world are looking for effective and sustainable ways to maintain economic confidence and employment. Even New Zealand, ... <a title="Would ‘COVID loans’ be a more affordable and sustainable way to support national economies?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/would-covid-loans-be-a-more-affordable-and-sustainable-way-to-support-national-economies-155296/" aria-label="Read more about Would ‘COVID loans’ be a more affordable and sustainable way to support national economies?">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Kamradt-Scott, Associate professor, University of Sydney The number of reported global weekly COVID cases is falling and has dropped nearly 50% this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said overnight. This incredibly encouraging news shows the power of public health measures — but we must remain ... <a title="Global weekly COVID cases are falling, WHO says — but ‘if we stop fighting it on any front, it will come roaring back’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/global-weekly-covid-cases-are-falling-who-says-but-if-we-stop-fighting-it-on-any-front-it-will-come-roaring-back-155355/" aria-label="Read more about Global weekly COVID cases are falling, WHO says — but ‘if we stop fighting it on any front, it will come roaring back’">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jan Kabatek, Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne Children with same-sex parents get higher scores on standardised tests than children with different-sex parents. This is the key finding from our study published today in the journal Demography. We also found ... <a title="Children with same-sex parents do better at school than their peers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/children-with-same-sex-parents-do-better-at-school-than-their-peers-155205/" aria-label="Read more about Children with same-sex parents do better at school than their peers">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Blair, Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, University of Western Australia In 2017, astronomers witnessed the birth of a black hole for the first time. Gravitational wave detectors picked up the ripples in spacetime caused by two neutron stars colliding to ... <a title="A tiny crystal device could boost gravitational wave detectors to reveal the birth cries of black holes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/a-tiny-crystal-device-could-boost-gravitational-wave-detectors-to-reveal-the-birth-cries-of-black-holes-155125/" aria-label="Read more about A tiny crystal device could boost gravitational wave detectors to reveal the birth cries of black holes">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University The Trump era might not yet be over. But the Trump presidency – or at least one Trump presidency – certainly is. For the United States, it’s time to clean up the ... <a title="‘Trumpism’ in Australia has been overstated — our problems are mostly our own" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/trumpism-in-australia-has-been-overstated-our-problems-are-mostly-our-own-154949/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Trumpism’ in Australia has been overstated — our problems are mostly our own">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margie Rogers, Lecturer, Early Childhood Education, University of New England Scientists don’t know exactly what percentage of the population will need to get a COVID vaccine to achieve herd immunity. Some diseases, such as whooping cough, need very high rates of vaccination between 90-95%. The rise of ... <a title="Why telling stories could be a more powerful way of convincing some people to take a COVID vaccine than just the facts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/why-telling-stories-could-be-a-more-powerful-way-of-convincing-some-people-to-take-a-covid-vaccine-than-just-the-facts-155050/" aria-label="Read more about Why telling stories could be a more powerful way of convincing some people to take a COVID vaccine than just the facts">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Davis, Professor, Research Institute for Environment & Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Charles Darwin University There aren’t many parts of the world where you can discover a completely new assemblage of living creatures. But after sampling underground water in a remote, arid region of northern Australia, we ... <a title="Blind shrimps, translucent snails: the 11 mysterious new species we found in potential fracking sites" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/16/blind-shrimps-translucent-snails-the-11-mysterious-new-species-we-found-in-potential-fracking-sites-155137/" aria-label="Read more about Blind shrimps, translucent snails: the 11 mysterious new species we found in potential fracking sites">Read more</a>
