With the rise of location-based services like Google Latitude, Foursquare and mapping applications, consumers are now well aware of the fact that their mobile phone is also a sort of homing beacon, that can pinpoint your location as you move around. That has all sorts of privacy implications and Apple felt the full force of […]
MoreIf you bought a paper this morning, particularly the Herald, you’ll have bene greated with front-page stories detailing a list of 49 foods that obese people should avoid. In fact, we should probably all avoid them, but University of Otago researchers who put the list together, are targeting people who are overweight or obese and […]
MoreNice infographic work from Fairfax in today’s Dominion Post showing some key indicators and stats on New Zealand’s population demographics. Who’d have thought the Aussies have a longer life expectancy than us?
MoreIt’s National Handwashing week in the US this week and if you’ve see the movie Contagion, you’ll understand the virtues of lathering up with soap and disinfecting your hands on a regular basis. The people at Certification Map put together the following useful infographic highlighting the virtues of handwashing and reveals some interesting human behaviour […]
MoreUPDATE: Campbell Live producer Kim Hurring has been in touch to say that the the original beagle piece run by TV3 was in the works well before the news out of Spain and that the fact the two stories broke on the same day was “purely coincidental”. “We had had a team of about three […]
MoreSince I’ve been in the science sector, I’ve heard about scientists in the UK involved in animal testing receiving death threats as well as Australian climate scientists being intimidated. I’ve also heard unconfirmed reports that at least one genetic modification scientist in New Zealand left the country a few years ago because of intimidation from […]
MoreA flurry of newspaper columns and editorials in the last few months have looked at New Zealand’s efforts to strike a free trade deal with the United States and the impact that might have on our drug-buying Government agency Pharmac. You see, the US apparently considers Pharmac as anticompetitive and limiting the ability of US […]
MoreTake a look at the graphs below, from the Mental Health Commission’s National Indicators 2011 report that uses 15 indicators to measure the mental health of the population. The top graph shows the results of a 2006 international Gallop poll that measured life satisfaction among participants in OECD countries. New Zealand came out looking pretty […]
MoreThe three-tiered Opera House in Wellington was packed out last night as people flocked to see Lord Robert Winston present the ideas from his 2010 book Bad Ideas? The lecture was the culmination of a trip that saw Winston lecture in Nelson and take part in the 90th anniversary celebration of the Cawthron Institute which […]
MoreA while ago the New Zealand Medical Journal explained why it is unwise to run around with a toothbrush in your mouth. Now British medical journal The Lancet delivers sound advice against playing soccer – or any kind of sport, with your keys on a chain around your neck. The journal reports that the 15 […]
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