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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Eldridge, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, Swinburne University of Technology Hello Dinny/Shutterstock Spicy foods taste spicy because they contain a family of compounds called capsaicinoids. Capsaicin is the major culprit. It’s found in chillies, jalapeños, cayenne pepper, and is even the active ingredient in pepper spray. Capsaicin ... <a title="Why doesn’t water help with spicy food? What about milk or beer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/why-doesnt-water-help-with-spicy-food-what-about-milk-or-beer-226624/" aria-label="Read more about Why doesn’t water help with spicy food? What about milk or beer?">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Isakhan, Professor of International Politics, Deakin University War brings not just unimaginable human suffering, but also the destruction of significant heritage sites. Israel’s bombardment of Gaza reportedly wrecked the once-majestic Great Omari Mosque late last year. A Russian attack reportedly did significant damage to the Church ... <a title="Reconstructing heritage after war: what we learned from asking 1,600 Syrians about rebuilding Aleppo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/reconstructing-heritage-after-war-what-we-learned-from-asking-1-600-syrians-about-rebuilding-aleppo-229627/" aria-label="Read more about Reconstructing heritage after war: what we learned from asking 1,600 Syrians about rebuilding Aleppo">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University PanicAttack/Shutterstock CSIRO’s latest annual GenCost update, released last month, was billed as Australia’s “most comprehensive electricity generation cost report”. GenCost has proven to be highly controversial. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton previously levelled robust criticism at the report, specifically ... <a title="Known unknowns: controversy over CSIRO’s electricity report reveals an uncomfortable truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/known-unknowns-controversy-over-csiros-electricity-report-reveals-an-uncomfortable-truth-231691/" aria-label="Read more about Known unknowns: controversy over CSIRO’s electricity report reveals an uncomfortable truth">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Purdie, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago Getty Images This week’s announcement of the government’s plans to reopen New Zealand’s territorial waters to oil drilling comes as no surprise. All three coalition parties campaigned on reversing the 2018 ban on offshore oil exploration. ... <a title="Global demand for oil could peak soon – NZ’s plan to revive offshore exploration doesn’t add up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/global-demand-for-oil-could-peak-soon-nzs-plan-to-revive-offshore-exploration-doesnt-add-up-232154/" aria-label="Read more about Global demand for oil could peak soon – NZ’s plan to revive offshore exploration doesn’t add up">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam "Ben" Rohrlach, Mathematician and Ancient DNA Researcher, University of Adelaide El Castillo at Chichén Itzá. Rodrigo Barquera After analysing the remains of 64 ancient sacrificed individuals, most of whom were children, researchers have revealed new details about human sacrifice at the ancient Maya site of Chichén ... <a title="The secrets of Maya child sacrifice at Chichén Itzá uncovered using ancient DNA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/the-secrets-of-maya-child-sacrifice-at-chichen-itza-uncovered-using-ancient-dna-221610/" aria-label="Read more about The secrets of Maya child sacrifice at Chichén Itzá uncovered using ancient DNA">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Richardson, Visiting Fellow, Centre for European Studies, Australian National University The “Summit on Peace in Ukraine”, hosted by Switzerland this weekend, is not a peace conference in the usual sense. Russia, which has dismissed it as irrelevant, won’t participate. And any summit aimed at ending the ... <a title="With Russia not attending, what can this weekend’s Ukraine peace summit achieve?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/with-russia-not-attending-what-can-this-weekends-ukraine-peace-summit-achieve-232165/" aria-label="Read more about With Russia not attending, what can this weekend’s Ukraine peace summit achieve?">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Max M Gillings, PhD Candidate, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University Simon C Griffith Recent public health threats such as COVID, and the current bird flu outbreak in Victoria, show we can’t separate human health from the natural environment. Our research examining the link between lead exposure ... <a title="How a little brown bird could sound the alarm on lead poisoning in Australian children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/how-a-little-brown-bird-could-sound-the-alarm-on-lead-poisoning-in-australian-children-232000/" aria-label="Read more about How a little brown bird could sound the alarm on lead poisoning in Australian children">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic Jones, Research Associate, Grattan Institute tcareob72/Shutterstock There are local councils in Australia that can’t afford to fix their roads, part of the problem is simply that they aren’t in Australia’s biggest states. The problem arises from the archaic way grants to councils are handed out. A ... <a title="In some parts of Australia, local roads are falling apart. Here’s an easy federal fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/in-some-parts-of-australia-local-roads-are-falling-apart-heres-an-easy-federal-fix-231486/" aria-label="Read more about In some parts of Australia, local roads are falling apart. Here’s an easy federal fix">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
BenarNews staff Fiji and Papua New Guinea have urged the UN’s Decolonisation Committee to expedite a visit to the French-controlled Pacific territory of Kanaky New Caledonia following its pro-independence riots last month. Nine people have died, dozens were injured and businesses were torched during unrest in the capital Noumea triggered by the French government’s move ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Fiji, PNG call for UN decolonisation mission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/kanaky-new-caledonia-unrest-fiji-png-call-for-un-decolonisation-mission/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: Fiji, PNG call for UN decolonisation mission">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adele Pentland, PhD candidate, Curtin University Gabriel Ugueto One hundred million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, much of northeastern Australia was underwater. The inland Eromanga Sea was home to a myriad of marine creatures, from turtles and dolphin-like ichthyosaurs to the bus-sized predator Kronosaurus queenslandicus and ... <a title="100-million-year-old fossil find reveals huge flying reptile that patrolled Australia’s inland sea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/12/100-million-year-old-fossil-find-reveals-huge-flying-reptile-that-patrolled-australias-inland-sea-231393/" aria-label="Read more about 100-million-year-old fossil find reveals huge flying reptile that patrolled Australia’s inland sea">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabrielle Hunt, PhD Candidate, Australian Catholic University A Victorian school community is reeling after fake, sexually explicit images of female students were generated using artificial intelligence and then shared on social media. About 50 high school students at Bacchus Marsh Grammar had their images altered. A teenage ... <a title="Deepfake AI pornography is becoming more common – what can parents and schools do to prevent it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/12/deepfake-ai-pornography-is-becoming-more-common-what-can-parents-and-schools-do-to-prevent-it-232248/" aria-label="Read more about Deepfake AI pornography is becoming more common – what can parents and schools do to prevent it?">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Henry, Professor & Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University Shutterstock This week, about 50 female students from Victoria’s Bacchus Marsh Grammar School had fake, sexually explicit images of them shared without their consent on Instagram and Snapchat. Images of their ... <a title="What to do if you, or someone you know, is targeted with deepfake porn or AI nudes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/12/what-to-do-if-you-or-someone-you-know-is-targeted-with-deepfake-porn-or-ai-nudes-232175/" aria-label="Read more about What to do if you, or someone you know, is targeted with deepfake porn or AI nudes">Read more</a>
