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July 28, 2025
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Roger D. Harris and John Perry With the Trump imperium passing the half-year mark, the posture of the US empire is ever clearer. Whether animated by “America First” or globalism, the objective remains “full spectrum dominance.” And now with the neocon capture of the Democrats, there are ... <a title="Trump’s Latin American Policies Go South" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/trumps-latin-american-policies-go-south/" aria-label="Read more about Trump’s Latin American Policies Go South">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Russell Mullett, Traditional Custodian — Kurnai, Indigenous Knowledge Mal and Dylan Siely examine finger grooves at Waribruk with GunaiKurnai Elder Uncle Russell Mullett. Photo by Jess Shapiro, courtesy of GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation Australia’s First Nations history stretches back many tens of thousands of years, ... <a title="Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/precious-finger-traces-from-first-nations-ancestors-revealed-in-a-glittering-mountain-cave-in-australia-260932/" aria-label="Read more about Precious finger traces from First Nations ancestors revealed in a glittering mountain cave in Australia">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Banks, Professor of Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Ken Griffiths/Shutterstock An introduced black rat scratches through leaf litter, looking for food. Nearby, a native water rat watches on, its beady eyes shining. The native rat pounces out from the shadows, ... <a title="Australia’s rat uprising: footage provides first evidence of native rakali attacking introduced black rat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/australias-rat-uprising-footage-provides-first-evidence-of-native-rakali-attacking-introduced-black-rat-261559/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s rat uprising: footage provides first evidence of native rakali attacking introduced black rat">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trevor Evans, Associate Professor, History and Archaeology, Macquarie University If you believe the hype, generative artificial intelligence (AI) is the future. However, new research suggests the technology may also improve our understanding of the past. A team of computer scientists from Google DeepMind, working with classicists and ... <a title="AI for the ancient world: how a new machine learning system can help make sense of Latin inscriptions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/ai-for-the-ancient-world-how-a-new-machine-learning-system-can-help-make-sense-of-latin-inscriptions-260448/" aria-label="Read more about AI for the ancient world: how a new machine learning system can help make sense of Latin inscriptions">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Weijers, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Co-editor International Journal of Wellbeing, University of Waikato Getty Images Happiness has many social benefits. Happy people tend to be healthier and more successful. They are also more helpful and others often view them more positively, making it easier for them ... <a title="Showing happiness brings social rewards, but the opposite can happen if people feel pressured to appear happy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/showing-happiness-brings-social-rewards-but-the-opposite-can-happen-if-people-feel-pressured-to-appear-happy-261752/" aria-label="Read more about Showing happiness brings social rewards, but the opposite can happen if people feel pressured to appear happy">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Teague, Associate Dean of Engagement, Murdoch University Recently, two babies died on opposite sides of the country. The first was a seven-month-old boy, found dead after being retrieved from a lake in rural Queensland. A second baby, a six-month-old girl was found dead in Perth, Western ... <a title="Poor mental health often plays a role in adults killing children. But it is primarily about violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/poor-mental-health-often-plays-a-role-in-adults-killing-children-but-it-is-primarily-about-violence-261381/" aria-label="Read more about Poor mental health often plays a role in adults killing children. But it is primarily about violence">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell, has urged the Australian government to set an ambitious 2035 emissions reduction target, declaring “bog standard is beneath you”. In a Monday speech, Stiell says, “don’t settle for what’s easy. Go ... <a title="UN climate chief tells Australia to ‘go big’ with its 2035 emissions reduction target" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/un-climate-chief-tells-australia-to-go-big-with-its-2035-emissions-reduction-target-262027/" aria-label="Read more about UN climate chief tells Australia to ‘go big’ with its 2035 emissions reduction target">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lynn Nazareth, Research Scientist in Olfactory Biology, CSIRO Violeta Stoimenova/Getty When you’re sick you’ll often produce more phlegm, and might notice it’s thicker or a different colour: white, green, yellow or maybe even brown. What can this phlegm – also called mucus, snot, sputum, catarrh and booger ... <a title="Does yellow mucus mean you need antibiotics? What phlegm can – and can’t – say about your health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/does-yellow-mucus-mean-you-need-antibiotics-what-phlegm-can-and-cant-say-about-your-health-257317/" aria-label="Read more about Does yellow mucus mean you need antibiotics? What phlegm can – and can’t – say about your health">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien O’Meara, Lecturer, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University A Place to Call Home/IMDB When the Seven Network’s Bevan Lee created the story of James Bligh, a gay man living in 1950s Australia, in A Place to Call Home (2013–18), it was the culmination of a ... <a title="A look into the decades of labour that helped bring LGBTQIA+ stories to Australian TV" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/a-look-into-the-decades-of-labour-that-helped-bring-lgbtqia-stories-to-australian-tv-261670/" aria-label="Read more about A look into the decades of labour that helped bring LGBTQIA+ stories to Australian TV">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Dane, Postdoctoral associate, University of Calgary Rugby union, commonly known as just rugby, is a fast-paced and physical team sport. More girls and women in Canada and around the world are playing it now than ever before. As of 2021, women’s rugby reached a record 2.7 ... <a title="Women’s rugby is booming, but safety relies on borrowed assumptions from the men’s game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/womens-rugby-is-booming-but-safety-relies-on-borrowed-assumptions-from-the-mens-game-261055/" aria-label="Read more about Women’s rugby is booming, but safety relies on borrowed assumptions from the men’s game">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By J. Andrew Deman, Professor of English, University of Waterloo The Fantastic Four: First Steps is the second cinematic reboot of the Fantastic Four franchise, and there’s a lot riding on this film. While cinema-goers have responded enthusiastically to many of the films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ... <a title="How Marvel’s Fantastic Four discovered the human in the superhuman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/how-marvels-fantastic-four-discovered-the-human-in-the-superhuman-260883/" aria-label="Read more about How Marvel’s Fantastic Four discovered the human in the superhuman">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rose Nakayi, Senior Lecturer of Law, Makerere University Populism is rife in various African countries. This political ideology responds to and takes advantage of a situation where a large section of people feels exploited, marginalised or disempowered. It sets up “the people” against “the other”. It promises ... <a title="Uganda’s land eviction crisis: do populist state measures actually fix problems?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/28/ugandas-land-eviction-crisis-do-populist-state-measures-actually-fix-problems-260512/" aria-label="Read more about Uganda’s land eviction crisis: do populist state measures actually fix problems?">Read more</a>
