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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Liu, Chancellors Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fashion and Textiles Designer, University of Technology Sydney The tech giants Amazon, Google and Facebook have all begun to use machine learning to give you tips on what to wear. Is fashion styling the next field to be disrupted by artificial ... <a title="The robot wears Prada: what happens when AI starts giving out fashion tips?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/the-robot-wears-prada-what-happens-when-ai-starts-giving-out-fashion-tips-125140/" aria-label="Read more about The robot wears Prada: what happens when AI starts giving out fashion tips?">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Bowden, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Newcastle It is becoming increasingly possible that sea-level rise of a metre or more will occur this century. You might expect this threat to preoccupy coastal homeowners. But many deny the need to act, for fear their property values will ... <a title="Water may soon lap at the door, but still some homeowners don’t want to rock the boat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/water-may-soon-lap-at-the-door-but-still-some-homeowners-dont-want-to-rock-the-boat-124289/" aria-label="Read more about Water may soon lap at the door, but still some homeowners don’t want to rock the boat">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chloe Watfern, Scientia PhD scholar, UNSW At Studio A, on the fourth floor of the Crows Nest community centre, a group of artists is working quietly. An occasional burst of laughter erupts from a corner of the studio. It makes its way around the room, past sculptures ... <a title="Creating and being seen: new projects focus on the rights of artists with disabilities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/creating-and-being-seen-new-projects-focus-on-the-rights-of-artists-with-disabilities-124270/" aria-label="Read more about Creating and being seen: new projects focus on the rights of artists with disabilities">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australians are divided over whether the nation’s universities have too many foreign students, according to the Australian National University’s ANUpoll, released Wednesday. In the polling, 52.8% said the mix between foreign and domestic students was about right, but 46.1% favoured ... <a title="Australians split on the level of foreign students: ANUpoll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/australians-split-on-the-level-of-foreign-students-anupoll-125658/" aria-label="Read more about Australians split on the level of foreign students: ANUpoll">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Gordon, PhD candidate. Sydney University Physics Education Research (SUPER) group, University of Sydney If you want to get good marks in your exams, there’s no substitute for study. So do past exams, go over your notes, read what you need to read, do the problems, ask ... <a title="3 things to help improve your exam results (besides studying)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/3-things-to-help-improve-your-exam-results-besides-studying-124178/" aria-label="Read more about 3 things to help improve your exam results (besides studying)">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Shine, Robinson Fellow, University of Sydney Have you ever sat down to complete your morning crossword or Sudoku and wondered about what’s happening in your brain? Somewhere in the activity of the billions of neurons in your brain lies the code that lets you remember a ... <a title="Your brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/your-brain-approaches-tricky-tasks-in-a-surprisingly-simple-way-124891/" aria-label="Read more about Your brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mehmet Ozalp, Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University The five-day ceasefire negotiated by US Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan ends today. Despite the ... <a title="The ‘ceasefire’ in Syria is ending – here’s what’s likely to happen now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/the-ceasefire-in-syria-is-ending-heres-whats-likely-to-happen-now-125492/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘ceasefire’ in Syria is ending – here’s what’s likely to happen now">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne The unprecedented blackout of front pages by Australia’s newspaper publishers this week is a highly significant event in Australian political and media history. It represents the completion of a deep rupture in the ... <a title="Australian governments have long been hostile to media freedom. That’s unlikely to change any time soon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/australian-governments-have-long-been-hostile-to-media-freedom-thats-unlikely-to-change-any-time-soon-125565/" aria-label="Read more about Australian governments have long been hostile to media freedom. That’s unlikely to change any time soon">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Hansen, Chief of Staff, The Conversation In recent years coconut water has left the palm-treed shores of tropical islands where tourists on lounge chairs stick straws straight into the fruit, and exploded onto supermarket shelves – helped along by beverage giants such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. ... <a title="Is coconut water good for you? We asked five experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/is-coconut-water-good-for-you-we-asked-five-experts-123524/" aria-label="Read more about Is coconut water good for you? We asked five experts">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Petterson, Professor of Geology, Auckland University of Technology CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send ... <a title="Climate explained: how volcanoes influence climate and how their emissions compare to what we produce" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/climate-explained-how-volcanoes-influence-climate-and-how-their-emissions-compare-to-what-we-produce-125490/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: how volcanoes influence climate and how their emissions compare to what we produce">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University A Greenpeace video of me plugging a trackless tram that went viral with 4 million hits has caused a few eyebrows to be raised over whether I think light rail is dead. So let me be clear: light rail remains ... <a title="Trackless trams v light rail? It’s not a contest – both can improve our cities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/trackless-trams-v-light-rail-its-not-a-contest-both-can-improve-our-cities-125134/" aria-label="Read more about Trackless trams v light rail? It’s not a contest – both can improve our cities">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Asher, Associate Professor, UNSW Here’s the boldest idea the government’s inquiry into retirement incomes should consider but might not: no longer exempting all of the value of each retiree’s home from the pension assets test. The test would merely exempt part of the value of retirees’ ... <a title="Postcode by postcode: a clever way to include homes in the age pension assets test" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/23/postcode-by-postcode-a-clever-way-to-include-homes-in-the-age-pension-assets-test-125500/" aria-label="Read more about Postcode by postcode: a clever way to include homes in the age pension assets test">Read more</a>
