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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donell Holloway, Senior research fellow, Edith Cowan University I recently purchased a bedroom bundle (mattress, bed base, pillows and sheets) from a well known Australian startup for my son, who has flown the nest. Now I’m swamped with Google and Facebook ads for beds and bedding. The ... <a title="Explainer: what is surveillance capitalism and how does it shape our economy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/explainer-what-is-surveillance-capitalism-and-how-does-it-shape-our-economy-119158/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is surveillance capitalism and how does it shape our economy?">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Reilly, Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide With all the hyperbole about the medevac law, it is easy to lose sight of its purpose. Refugees have been transferred off Nauru and Manus Island for emergency medical treatment ... <a title="Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/peter-dutton-is-whipping-up-fear-on-the-medevac-law-but-it-defies-logic-and-compassion-119297/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allen Cheng, Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University Influenza is a moving target for vaccines. Each year, up to four different strains circulate, and they are constantly evolving to escape our immune system. So rather than childhood jabs giving long lasting immunity, we need annual flu ... <a title="You can’t get influenza from a flu shot – here’s how it works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/you-cant-get-influenza-from-a-flu-shot-heres-how-it-works-118916/" aria-label="Read more about You can’t get influenza from a flu shot – here’s how it works">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Duffy, Lecturer in Applied Geoscience, University of Melbourne The magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck at a depth of about 200km beneath the Banda Sea on Monday prompted office buildings to be evacuated in Darwin, some 700km away. This is a complex and seismically active region, where ... <a title="‘Like tearing a piece of cheese’: here’s why Darwin was rocked so hard by a distant quake" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/like-tearing-a-piece-of-cheese-heres-why-darwin-was-rocked-so-hard-by-a-distant-quake-119306/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Like tearing a piece of cheese’: here’s why Darwin was rocked so hard by a distant quake">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Curnock, Social Scientist, CSIRO Media coverage of mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef may have been a major tipping point for public concerns around climate change, according to research published today. Severe and extensive bleaching during the summers of 2016 and 2017 has been ... <a title="‘Sadness, disgust, anger’: fear for the Great Barrier Reef made climate change feel urgent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/sadness-disgust-anger-fear-for-the-great-barrier-reef-made-climate-change-feel-urgent-119232/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Sadness, disgust, anger’: fear for the Great Barrier Reef made climate change feel urgent">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University This essay is part of a series of articles on the future of education. Technological developments are expected to majorly, and rapidly, disrupt or change the nature of employment. The multiplier effect of these disruptions interacting with ... <a title="Jobs are changing, and fast. Here’s what the VET sector (and employers) need to do to keep up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/jobs-are-changing-and-fast-heres-what-the-vet-sector-and-employers-need-to-do-to-keep-up-118524/" aria-label="Read more about Jobs are changing, and fast. Here’s what the VET sector (and employers) need to do to keep up">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Assistant professor, University of Canberra Facebook’s proposed new digital currency, if even modestly successful, will hand over much of the control of monetary policy from central banks to Facebook and a group of partner companies including Uber and eBay. So says Chris Hughes, a Facebook ... <a title="Facebook’s Libra plan: talk of the demise of central banks is greatly exaggerated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/facebooks-libra-plan-talk-of-the-demise-of-central-banks-is-greatly-exaggerated-119165/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook’s Libra plan: talk of the demise of central banks is greatly exaggerated">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Ross, Professor in Food Microbiology, Centre for Food Safety and Innovation, Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania Last Thursday, dairy company Lactalis Australia recalled eight varieties of milk over concerns the products could be contaminated with the bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli). This recall affects ... <a title="E. coli in milk won’t necessarily make you sick – but it signals risks from other bacteria" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/e-coli-in-milk-wont-necessarily-make-you-sick-but-it-signals-risks-from-other-bacteria-119229/" aria-label="Read more about E. coli in milk won’t necessarily make you sick – but it signals risks from other bacteria">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phoebe Bailey, Associate Professor of Psychology, Western Sydney University Populations around the world are ageing rapidly. Almost one in four people will be aged 60 or more by 2050. This growing cohort of older adults is often portrayed as too trusting – why should this be so? ... <a title="The trust trap: why older Australians are more trusting, and what that means for them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/the-trust-trap-why-older-australians-are-more-trusting-and-what-that-means-for-them-119092/" aria-label="Read more about The trust trap: why older Australians are more trusting, and what that means for them">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Shiels, Lecturer – School of Art, RMIT University The phrase “colonial settlement” sounds benign, but Julie Gough’s Tense Past presents compelling evidence to the contrary. Since 1994, Gough has been searching the archives, piecing together the evidence and representing Tasmania’s overlooked history of dispossession and frontier ... <a title="Julie Gough’s ‘Tense Past’ reminds us how the brutalities of colonial settlement are still felt today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/julie-goughs-tense-past-reminds-us-how-the-brutalities-of-colonial-settlement-are-still-felt-today-118923/" aria-label="Read more about Julie Gough’s ‘Tense Past’ reminds us how the brutalities of colonial settlement are still felt today">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Nixon, PhD, The University of Queensland Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do spiders need so many eyes but we only need two?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/curious-kids-why-do-spiders-need-so-many-eyes-but-we-only-need-two-116821/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do spiders need so many eyes but we only need two?">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Andrejevic, Professor, School of Media, Film, and Journalism, Monash University The recent viral “deepfake” video of Mark Zuckerberg declaring, “whoever controls the data controls the world” was not a particularly convincing imitation of the Facebook CEO, but it was spectacularly successful at focusing attention on the ... <a title="People who spread deepfakes think their lies reveal a deeper truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/people-who-spread-deepfakes-think-their-lies-reveal-a-deeper-truth-119156/" aria-label="Read more about People who spread deepfakes think their lies reveal a deeper truth">Read more</a>
