If New Zealand’s senior climate scientists weren’t tied up responding to vexatious attacks from the Climate Science Coalition, they have time to put together useful overviews of climate science aimed at informing the public about the state of climate change, as this useful report from the Australian Academy of Science does. It is ironic that […]
MoreBP has blasted mud down the shaft of its broken well in an operation it says could once and for all put an end to the biggest off-shore oil spill in US history. The technique they have used to stem the flow is called a “static kill” and the graphic below which ran in the […]
MoreThis crazy letter comes courtesy of Sciblogs reader Alistair Mowat, who describes it as “priceless”. “Here is something akin to the discovery of the Japanese soldier found in the late 1970’s on a Pacific Island who was oblivious to the end of World War II,” he adds. “A man has been discovered in Tauranga, NZ, […]
MoreUsually I need to trawl the letters pages of the country’s newspapers and magazines to find examples of crazy science letters to the editor. This letter came direct to my inbox. The use of different fonts and colours is a fair warning of what to expect should you choose to read on… I wonder what […]
MoreAn interesting infographic from Reuters that ran in today’s Dominion Post and outlining the number of whales killed around the world each year for “scientific” purposes as well as the species culled.
MoreSir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, made a reasonable impact with his lecture on climate change delivered at Victoria University last week. A few media outlets covered the event running an NZPA article and climate skeptics were furious, urging Prime Minister John Key to “rein in” his science advisor or sack him. […]
MoreI’ve been scanning newspapers to see how the Science paper by Venter et al. was covered around the world. It isn’t surprising that many newspapers turned to infographics, with varying degrees of success, to try and explain what Venter’s team achieved. Here’s one of the better ones I saw, which British paper The Independent ran…
MoreThe Zoological Society of London has come out with a hard-hitting statement on the Government’s plans to mine parts of the conservation estate, concerned in particular at what mining might mean for the rare Archey’s frog and Hochstetter’s frog. It seems the Archey’s frog is at the top of the ZSL’s EDGE of Existence amphibian […]
MoreScientists at the Crown Research Institute GNS Science are this morning showing media through its Lower Hutt Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory where a new accelerator mass spectrometer has been installed. What will this expensive gadget, which represents the largest single investment in equipment since GNS became a CRI in 1992, actually do? Well, GNS is the […]
MoreA hazard we thankfully don’t have to contend with on rural roads in New Zealand – camels crossing the road. The thing about camels is that their long legs mean the full weight of their body ends up in the front windscreen of the average car as the infographic below from the Times of Oman […]
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