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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Caldicott, Senior lecturer, Australian National University Shutterstock The agent that contaminated baby spinach, prompting the recent national recall, has been revealed. It’s a weed, not deliberate misadventure or a chemical contaminant. The culprit is thornapple, otherwise known as jimsonweed or, to give it its scientific name, ... <a title="The peculiar history of thornapple, the hallucinogenic weed that ended up in supermarket spinach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/the-peculiar-history-of-thornapple-the-hallucinogenic-weed-that-ended-up-in-supermarket-spinach-197014/" aria-label="Read more about The peculiar history of thornapple, the hallucinogenic weed that ended up in supermarket spinach">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristine Macartney, Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney Unsplash/Engin Akyurt Former federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps has talked this week about the medical problems she and her wife had after their COVID-19 vaccinations around 18 months ago. In her submission to the parliamentary ... <a title="How common are severe side effects from COVID vaccines? And how are they detected?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/how-common-are-severe-side-effects-from-covid-vaccines-and-how-are-they-detected-196937/" aria-label="Read more about How common are severe side effects from COVID vaccines? And how are they detected?">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today PARLIAMENT Morgan Godfery (Guardian): The dark side haunting New Zealand’s politics in 2022 must not hijack the next election Brent Edwards (NBR): Political debate ... <a title="Newsletter: December 22 2022 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/newsletter-december-22-2022-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: December 22 2022 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Siemens, Co-Director, Professor, Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning, University of South Australia ktsdesign/Shutterstock In August 1955, a group of scientists made a funding request for US$13,500 to host a summer workshop at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. The field they proposed to explore was artificial ... <a title="Not everything we call AI is actually ‘artificial intelligence’. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/not-everything-we-call-ai-is-actually-artificial-intelligence-heres-what-you-need-to-know-196732/" aria-label="Read more about Not everything we call AI is actually ‘artificial intelligence’. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Farmer, Senior Lecturer, Criminology, Deakin University American popular culture dominates international markets. Among its most enduringly successful products are police dramas and movies. Many of these feature frequent and overwhelmingly positive depictions of police gun violence – a popular example, and a favourite at this time ... <a title="Police gun violence is glorified on screen. But more armed and aggressive policing doesn’t actually make us safer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/police-gun-violence-is-glorified-on-screen-but-more-armed-and-aggressive-policing-doesnt-actually-make-us-safer-195920/" aria-label="Read more about Police gun violence is glorified on screen. But more armed and aggressive policing doesn’t actually make us safer">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong Progress towards Australia’s new emissions target of a 43% reduction by 2030 (from 2005 levels) has been decidedly mixed. Emissions in the electricity sector have fallen in recent years, but the upward trend in another major sector, transport, is ... <a title="Why electric vehicles won’t be enough to rein in transport emissions any time soon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/why-electric-vehicles-wont-be-enough-to-rein-in-transport-emissions-any-time-soon-195722/" aria-label="Read more about Why electric vehicles won’t be enough to rein in transport emissions any time soon">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva The incumbent FijiFirst government’s appeal was beginning to wane and voters deserted the party “because of what they saw as their authoritarian, non-inclusive, controlling and vindictive style of leadership”, says a leading Fijian academic with an international reputation. Professor Steven Ratuva, director of the New Zealand-based University of Canterbury’s Macmillan ... <a title="‘Writing on the wall’ for authoritarian FijiFirst government, says Ratuva" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/writing-on-the-wall-for-authoritarian-fijifirst-government-says-ratuva/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Writing on the wall’ for authoritarian FijiFirst government, says Ratuva">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniela Mueller, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne Else Blankenhorn, ALLEGORY WITH IMPERIAL COUPLE, before 1920, oil on canvas, Inv. 4305 © Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg University Hospital In this series, our writers introduce us to a favourite painting. I often wonder if this mystical painting depicts a ... <a title="Why I love Else Blankenhorn’s Allegory with Imperial Couple, and the love story it reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/why-i-love-else-blankenhorns-allegory-with-imperial-couple-and-the-love-story-it-reveals-189451/" aria-label="Read more about Why I love Else Blankenhorn’s Allegory with Imperial Couple, and the love story it reveals">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Pacific Media Watch An award-winning professor of sport, leadership and governance has criticised her university’s handling of recent redundancies of 170 academic staff, saying a “rethink” is needed. Professor Lesley Ferkins, director of Auckland University of Technology’s Sports Performance Research Institute and professor of sport, leadership and governance, told RNZ Nine to Noon that AUT’s ... <a title="Award-winning leadership professor calls on AUT to rethink redundancies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/award-winning-leadership-professor-calls-on-aut-to-rethink-redundancies/" aria-label="Read more about Award-winning leadership professor calls on AUT to rethink redundancies">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva Former Supervisor of Elections Jon Apted says that the coalition formed by the Social Democratic Liberal Party with the People’s Alliance/National Federation Party should be able to successfully elect a Prime Minister at the first sitting. He said that with the 2022 General Election over and FFP tied with the ... <a title="‘PM at first sitting’ – Fiji’s former elections chief explains how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/pm-at-first-sitting-fijis-former-elections-chief-explains-how/" aria-label="Read more about ‘PM at first sitting’ – Fiji’s former elections chief explains how">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rewi Newnham, Professor in Physical Geography, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shutterstock/jet 67 When a recent study implicated forest fires set by early Māori in a hemisphere-wide rise in emissions, it ignited controversy. The incriminating evidence comes from Antarctic ice cores containing so-called refracted ... <a title="Research linking soot in Antarctic ice exclusively with early Māori fires was flawed – there were other sources elsewhere" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/research-linking-soot-in-antarctic-ice-exclusively-with-early-maori-fires-was-flawed-there-were-other-sources-elsewhere-194816/" aria-label="Read more about Research linking soot in Antarctic ice exclusively with early Māori fires was flawed – there were other sources elsewhere">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Kilah, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Tasmania Shutterstock The pavlova is a summer icon; just a few simple ingredients can be transformed into a beautifully flavoured and textured dessert. But despite its simplicity, there’s a surprising amount of chemistry involved in making a pavlova. Knowing ... <a title="How to make the perfect pavlova, according to chemistry experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/how-to-make-the-perfect-pavlova-according-to-chemistry-experts-196485/" aria-label="Read more about How to make the perfect pavlova, according to chemistry experts">Read more</a>
