We’ve already seen this week proof in an UMR Research study that the public believes the media is inaccurate, biased and unwilling to own up to its mistakes. If those who answered that way in the UMR survey needed any more evidence to confirm their views they got it this week with two shameful examples […]
MoreThe Government has followed up the recommendation of the Chief Science Advisor Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, signaling that it will move to make pseudoephedrine a Class B2 controlled drug, making it prescription-only. UPDATED: While Professor Peter Gluckman recommended option 5 be adopted by the Government calling for a reclassification of pseudoephedribe to Class B2 and […]
MoreThe Marsden Fund, bolstered by a $9 million top-up in funding announced in this year’s Budget, today hands out a record sum of cash to researchers around the country. The full list of successful grants is available here. Check back here through the day for reaction and analysis from our Scibloggers and for further analysis […]
MoreA couple of excellent uses of data visualisation software have popped up in the media over the last few days and best of all, both display kiwi innovation at work. Nextspace, the Auckland-based cluster of 3D graphics companies, says it is building a “Visual City” platform for Auckland which would display visually on a 3D […]
MoreMy This Way Up slot with Simon Morton this week looks at online back-up options for people who want to protect themselves against losing their precious digital content. The list of services we looked at was by no means exhaustive, but some leading players in the online storage space have emerged in the last couple […]
MoreThis week a high-profile group of scientists had a letter published in New Scientist that calls for the Nobel prizes for science to be revamped because the awards are too narrow to reflect the breadth of modern science. The Nobel Prize winners will be announced next week. A few choice quotes: Many of these fields, […]
MoreApplications for the Wellys, or the Wellingtonian of the Year award, an annual competition run by the Dominion Post, close on Sunday so time is running out to nominate someone you think has done the region a lot of good in the past year. Past overall winners have included Peter Jackson, Jermaine Clement and Bret […]
MoreNature reports today some interesting research which suggests the big Boxing Day earthquake of 2004, which caused devastation around the Indian Ocean when the resulting tsunami slammed into coastal towns, may also have weakened the San Andreas faultline 8000km away in California. Researchers examining the data produced by highly sensitive devices buried deep beneath the […]
MoreA useful update from GeoNet on the earthquake in the Samoa Islands this morning. The dramatic picture below charts the amplitude of the quake.
MoreA few weeks back, succumbing to a barrage of advertising on my favourite tech podcast TWiT, I signed up to Audible.com, the talking book service run out of the US. Audible has been plugging away with digital book downloads for ten years now, but seems to really have taken off with the rise of the […]
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