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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marnee Shay, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland The 2024 federal budget contains A$110 million for Indigenous education. This includes funding for various different organisations to represent and help Indigenous people as well as scholarships in a bid to close the gap between Indigenous ... <a title="There’s $110 million for Indigenous education in the budget. But where’s the evidence it will work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/theres-110-million-for-indigenous-education-in-the-budget-but-wheres-the-evidence-it-will-work-230103/" aria-label="Read more about There’s $110 million for Indigenous education in the budget. But where’s the evidence it will work?">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Linley, PhD Candidate in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Grant Linley Australia’s unprecedented Black Summer bushfires in 2019–20 created ideal conditions for misinformation to spread, from the insidious to the absurd. It was within this context that a bizarre story went viral on social media. This was ... <a title="Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/cameras-reveal-wombat-burrows-can-be-safe-havens-after-fire-and-waterholes-after-rain-226396/" aria-label="Read more about Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rain">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcel Scharth, Lecturer in Business Analytics, University of Sydney OpenAI executive Mira Murati launching GPT-4o. OpenAI Earlier this week OpenAI launched GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), a new version of the artificial intelligence (AI) system powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot. GPT-4o is promoted as a step towards more ... <a title="ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/chatgpt-is-now-better-than-ever-at-faking-human-emotion-and-behaviour-230254/" aria-label="Read more about ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Treasure McGuire, Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Mater Health SEQ in conjoint appointment as Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Bond University and as Associate Professor (Clinical), The University of Queensland Speedkingz/Shutterstock Menopause is a natural biological process that marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years, typically between 45 ... <a title="Menopause can bring increased cholesterol levels and other heart risks. Here’s why and what to do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/menopause-can-bring-increased-cholesterol-levels-and-other-heart-risks-heres-why-and-what-to-do-about-it-228010/" aria-label="Read more about Menopause can bring increased cholesterol levels and other heart risks. Here’s why and what to do about it">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University For decades, Australia has exported uranium – but not used it, other than in the Lucas Heights research reactor. But change is coming. We now face a rapidly deepening commitment to the nuclear industry, through nuclear submarines ... <a title="Nuclear subs are coming to Australia. Now the Coalition wants reactors, too. We’re not ready for it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/nuclear-subs-are-coming-to-australia-now-the-coalition-wants-reactors-too-were-not-ready-for-it-230117/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear subs are coming to Australia. Now the Coalition wants reactors, too. We’re not ready for it">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam D Hines, Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology Sergey Mironov/Shutterstock Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it’s likely at some point in our lives we’ll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anaesthesia. Even though it is one ... <a title="After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anaesthesia works in the brain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/after-180-years-new-clues-are-revealing-just-how-general-anaesthesia-works-in-the-brain-229713/" aria-label="Read more about After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anaesthesia works in the brain">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Graffam, PhD Candidate in Theatre, Monash University Gianna Rizzo/Malthouse Music pumps; lights pulsate; two sweaty bodies sway together, touching, breathing in each other’s scent. A male body framed by downlight restlessly shifts between stances and gestures. He undresses. The intensity of music, movement and light builds ... <a title="Homo Pentecostus: on queer intimacies, religion, ancestry and the human need for connection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/homo-pentecostus-on-queer-intimacies-religion-ancestry-and-the-human-need-for-connection-228014/" aria-label="Read more about Homo Pentecostus: on queer intimacies, religion, ancestry and the human need for connection">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sandra van der Laan, Professor of Accounting, University of Sydney Mtaya/Shutterstock At some point, you or someone else will need to make a decision about your “send-off”. Most Australians die in an institution, such as a hospital or aged care facility. This situation often puts pressure on ... <a title="Want to be buried on your own land, at sea or in a forest? A guide to unconventional send-offs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/want-to-be-buried-on-your-own-land-at-sea-or-in-a-forest-a-guide-to-unconventional-send-offs-227457/" aria-label="Read more about Want to be buried on your own land, at sea or in a forest? A guide to unconventional send-offs">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aruna Sathanapally, Chief Executive, Grattan Institute, Grattan Institute A central focus of this week’s budget is the treasury’s forecast for inflation. By this time next year, inflation is projected to be back within the Reserve Bank’s 2-3% target range. Inflation has dropped dramatically from its peak of ... <a title="At the heart of the budget is the sad truth the economy is weak. That’s one reason inflation will fall" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/at-the-heart-of-the-budget-is-the-sad-truth-the-economy-is-weak-thats-one-reason-inflation-will-fall-230108/" aria-label="Read more about At the heart of the budget is the sad truth the economy is weak. That’s one reason inflation will fall">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yolanda van Heezik, Professor of Ecology, University of Otago Getty Images Cities across Aotearoa New Zealand are trying to solve a housing crisis, with increasing residential density a key solution. But not everyone is happy about the resulting loss of natural habitats and biodiversity. Some homeowners in ... <a title="Denser housing can be greener too – here’s how NZ can build better for biodiversity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/denser-housing-can-be-greener-too-heres-how-nz-can-build-better-for-biodiversity-229472/" aria-label="Read more about Denser housing can be greener too – here’s how NZ can build better for biodiversity">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Reeve, Deputy Program Director, Energy and Climate Change, Grattan Institute WDG Photo/Shutterstock For years, the electricity sector has been the poster child for emissions cuts in Australia. The sector achieved a stunning 26% drop in emissions over the past 15 years, while other sectors have hardly ... <a title="Clean energy slump – why Australia’s renewables revolution is behind schedule, and how to fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/clean-energy-slump-why-australias-renewables-revolution-is-behind-schedule-and-how-to-fix-it-229514/" aria-label="Read more about Clean energy slump – why Australia’s renewables revolution is behind schedule, and how to fix it">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy J. Ralph, Associate Professor, Macquarie University The pyramids at Giza, like dozens of others, are located several kilometres west of the current path of the Nile. Alex Cimbal / Shutterstock The largest field of pyramids in Egypt – consisting of 31 pyramids built over a millennium, ... <a title="We mapped a lost branch of the Nile River – which may be the key to a longstanding mystery of the pyramids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/we-mapped-a-lost-branch-of-the-nile-river-which-may-be-the-key-to-a-longstanding-mystery-of-the-pyramids-230092/" aria-label="Read more about We mapped a lost branch of the Nile River – which may be the key to a longstanding mystery of the pyramids">Read more</a>
