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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Musker, Senior Research Fellow, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute 13 Reasons Why, the controversial Netflix programme that broaches the topic of adolescent suicide, has drawn further criticism after new research showed a potential link to a rise in suicide rates coinciding with the show’s ... <a title="Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let’s use it as a chance to talk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/suicide-rates-are-rising-with-or-without-13-reasons-why-lets-use-it-as-a-chance-to-talk-116434/" aria-label="Read more about Suicide rates are rising with or without 13 Reasons Why. Let’s use it as a chance to talk">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Ryan, Lecturer – Environmental Health and Management, Western Sydney University This is an article from I’ve Always Wondered, a series where readers send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. Send your question to alwayswondered@theconversation.edu.au Are water crystals bad for the environment? –Terry Gilmour This ... <a title="I’ve always wondered: are water crystals bad for the environment?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/ive-always-wondered-are-water-crystals-bad-for-the-environment-112519/" aria-label="Read more about I’ve always wondered: are water crystals bad for the environment?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute Monday night’s ABC Four Corners program alleged several universities were admitting international students without the English-language skills needed to successfully complete their courses, effectively setting them up to fail. Such claims have been made so often, including by government ... <a title="Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/are-international-students-passing-university-courses-at-the-same-rate-as-domestic-students-116666/" aria-label="Read more about Are international students passing university courses at the same rate as domestic students?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Crawford, Professor of Advertising, RMIT University Recent debates about prominent advertising in Melbourne and Sydney have highlighted public concerns about the commercialisation of public space. The sense that our cities have become increasingly vulnerable to commercial forces is premised on the assumption that advertising has no ... <a title="Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/selling-out-the-city-to-advertising-nothing-new-to-see-here-114972/" aria-label="Read more about Selling out the city to advertising? Nothing new to see here">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenna Drenten, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Loyola University Chicago Australians are some of the most active social media users in the world and Instagram is particularly popular. One in three of us have an account, with more than 9,000,000 monthly active users. The rise of Instagram reflects ... <a title="How highly sexualised imagery is shaping ‘influence’ on Instagram – and harassment is rife" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/08/how-highly-sexualised-imagery-is-shaping-influence-on-instagram-and-harassment-is-rife-113030/" aria-label="Read more about How highly sexualised imagery is shaping ‘influence’ on Instagram – and harassment is rife">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ric Day, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, UNSW Motion sickness can be mild, but in some people it’s debilitating, and takes the fun out of a holiday. We think it’s caused by temporary dysfunction of our brain’s balance centres. The perception of motion of any sort can bring ... <a title="Health check: why do we get motion sickness and what’s the best way to treat it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/health-check-why-do-we-get-motion-sickness-and-whats-the-best-way-to-treat-it-112861/" aria-label="Read more about Health check: why do we get motion sickness and what’s the best way to treat it?">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Adani’s plan to manage an endangered finch was rejected last week by the Queensland government, stalling progress on the Carmichael mine. The mine would cover much of the best remaining ... <a title="Why Adani’s finch plan was rejected, and what comes next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/why-adanis-finch-plan-was-rejected-and-what-comes-next-116525/" aria-label="Read more about Why Adani’s finch plan was rejected, and what comes next">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Nyanjom, Lecturer – School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University Plato and Aristotle. Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey. Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. In each of these famous relationships it was the older person with more experience acting as mentor, guiding the much younger “mentee” ... <a title="5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/5-tips-on-how-to-be-a-good-mentor-to-someone-twice-your-age-114189/" aria-label="Read more about 5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology The trial of the man accused of the murders and attempted murders in the Christchurch mosque attacks is one small but important legal process. Another one has now started. A Royal commission of inquiry, to be led by ... <a title="Explainer: how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/explainer-how-a-royal-commission-will-investigate-christchurch-shootings-116122/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Watts, Professor of Information Law and Policy, La Trobe University At about the same time on Sunday afternoon that former Labor prime minister Paul Keating was referring to him as a “fossil with a baseball cap”, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a re-election promise to crackdown ... <a title="Coalition plans to improve online safety don’t address the root cause of harms: the big tech business model" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/coalition-plans-to-improve-online-safety-dont-address-the-root-cause-of-harms-the-big-tech-business-model-116592/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition plans to improve online safety don’t address the root cause of harms: the big tech business model">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Some weeks back, Sydney Morning Herald political editor Peter Hartcher grimly characterised the election as a choice between an angry dad figure in a baseball cap and a sad sack who learned public speaking in funeral parlour. ... <a title="Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/look-at-me-look-at-me-how-image-conscious-but-visionless-leaders-have-made-for-a-dreary-campaign-116421/" aria-label="Read more about Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide 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 ... <a title="Curious Kids: why don’t horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/curious-kids-why-dont-horses-sit-or-lie-down-even-while-sleeping-116156/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why don’t horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?">Read more</a>
