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December 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Candice Harris, Professor of Management, Auckland University of Technology The idea that we can comfortably manage all the different facets of life – work, family, other responsibilities – is certainly appealing. But in reality, there is no one-size-fits-all solution to work-life balance – especially for older workers. ... <a title="Older workers still struggle with work-life balance – and there’s no one-size-fits-all remedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/26/older-workers-still-struggle-with-work-life-balance-and-theres-no-one-size-fits-all-remedy-217080/" aria-label="Read more about Older workers still struggle with work-life balance – and there’s no one-size-fits-all remedy">Read more</a>
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December 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Crawford, Professor of Advertising, RMIT University Pro-stock Studio/Shutterstock The Boxing Day sales are an essential part of Australia’s festive season. Every year on December 26 news outlets invariably feature stories about excited shoppers queuing up at the major department stores hoping to score bargains and heavily ... <a title="How Boxing Day evolved from giving Christmas leftovers to servants to a retail frenzy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/26/how-boxing-day-evolved-from-giving-christmas-leftovers-to-servants-to-a-retail-frenzy-219507/" aria-label="Read more about How Boxing Day evolved from giving Christmas leftovers to servants to a retail frenzy">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Bentley, Professor of Social Epidemiology and Director of the Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock A startling number of Australian rental homes come with an unwanted housemate: mould. If you discover ... <a title="What if I discover mould after I move into a rental property? What are my rights?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/25/what-if-i-discover-mould-after-i-move-into-a-rental-property-what-are-my-rights-215146/" aria-label="Read more about What if I discover mould after I move into a rental property? What are my rights?">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Dawes, Research Fellow in Medico-Legal History, Australian National University Australians have used commercial creams, lotions or gels to manage our skin’s sun exposure for nearly a century. But why we do it, the preparations themselves, and whether they work, has changed over time. In this short ... <a title="A short history of sunscreen, from basting like a chook to preventing skin cancer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/25/a-short-history-of-sunscreen-from-basting-like-a-chook-to-preventing-skin-cancer-215893/" aria-label="Read more about A short history of sunscreen, from basting like a chook to preventing skin cancer">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Drooping mistletoe (Amyema pendula) in flower. John Tann/Flickr, CC BY The airwaves and shopping centres have been filled with Christmas songs and carols. Apparently mommy was seen kissing Santa underneath the mistletoe. ... <a title="At a time of giving and receiving, our many Australian mistletoes do it too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/25/at-a-time-of-giving-and-receiving-our-many-australian-mistletoes-do-it-too-218040/" aria-label="Read more about At a time of giving and receiving, our many Australian mistletoes do it too">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Blunden, Professor and Head of Paediatric Sleep Research, CQUniversity Australia Shutterstock Sleep, along with diet and physical activity, is one of the three pillars of good health. Good sleep makes it easier to grow, learn, perform, be happy, stay in our best weight range and generally ... <a title="Relax – having different sleeping arrangements over the holidays probably won’t wreck your child’s sleep routine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/25/relax-having-different-sleeping-arrangements-over-the-holidays-probably-wont-wreck-your-childs-sleep-routine-219390/" aria-label="Read more about Relax – having different sleeping arrangements over the holidays probably won’t wreck your child’s sleep routine">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C Van Dyk, Lecturer, University of Newcastle Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA In 1998, Victorian premier Jeff Kennett visited a town in regional Victoria and said he had discovered, in his opinion, the best vanilla slice in Australia at the local bakery. He was so inspired by ... <a title="As Aussie as vanilla slice: how the delicate European dessert became the snot block of Aussie bakeries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/25/as-aussie-as-vanilla-slice-how-the-delicate-european-dessert-became-the-snot-block-of-aussie-bakeries-214378/" aria-label="Read more about As Aussie as vanilla slice: how the delicate European dessert became the snot block of Aussie bakeries">Read more</a>
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December 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael David Barbezat, Research Fellow, Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry, Australian Catholic University The Beast Acheron, 1475 Simon Marmion (Flemish, active 1450–1489) Getty Museum There is an obscure medieval legend that says once upon a time in Bethlehem, a child was born whose holiness was so ... <a title="The Christmas when all the sodomites died" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/25/the-christmas-when-all-the-sodomites-died-210275/" aria-label="Read more about The Christmas when all the sodomites died">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Grzeskowiak, Fellow in Medicines Use and Safety, Flinders University Dragana Gordic/Shutterstock As many as 90% or more of pregnant people experience some degree of nausea or vomiting, often colloquially referred to as “morning sickness”. For some, it is relatively mild, coming and going during the first ... <a title="Morning sickness doesn’t only occur in the morning. So why do we still call it that?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/22/morning-sickness-doesnt-only-occur-in-the-morning-so-why-do-we-still-call-it-that-219707/" aria-label="Read more about Morning sickness doesn’t only occur in the morning. So why do we still call it that?">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hillier, Professor: Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of South Australia Shutterstock There’s no shortage of apps and technology that claim to shift the brain into a “theta” state – said to help with relaxation, inward focus and sleep. But what exactly does it mean to change one’s ... <a title="Alpha, beta, theta: what are brain states and brain waves? And can we control them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/22/alpha-beta-theta-what-are-brain-states-and-brain-waves-and-can-we-control-them-219236/" aria-label="Read more about Alpha, beta, theta: what are brain states and brain waves? And can we control them?">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hanne E F Nielsen, Senior lecturer, University of Tasmania Antarctica is often imagined as the last untouched wilderness. Unfortunately, avian influenza (“bird flu”) is encroaching on the icy continent. The virus has already reached the sub-Antarctic islands between the Antarctic Peninsula and South America. It’s only a ... <a title="Avian influenza has killed millions of seabirds around the world: Antarctica could be next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/22/avian-influenza-has-killed-millions-of-seabirds-around-the-world-antarctica-could-be-next-216738/" aria-label="Read more about Avian influenza has killed millions of seabirds around the world: Antarctica could be next">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2023
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Roger D. Harris Alex Saab was freed from US captivity in what Venezuelan Prof. Maria Victor Paez described as “a triumph of Venezuelan diplomacy.” The diplomat had been imprisoned for trying to bring humanitarian supplies to Venezuela in legal international trade but in circumvention of Washington’s illegal economic coercive measures, ... <a title="How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/22/how-the-campaign-to-free-venezuelan-political-prisoner-alex-saab-succeeded/" aria-label="Read more about How the Campaign to Free Venezuelan Political Prisoner Alex Saab Succeeded">Read more</a>
