The Government announced something to the tune of $234 million in new funding for science and R&D initiatives this morning, initiatives that will be included in the Budget on May 20. Businesses now have no excuse not to show some interest in R&D – there’ll even be a national network of commercialisation centres to help […]
MoreApparently when you invoke the Nazis in an argument about climate change or any issue for that matter, you have already lost the argument. It’s called Godwin’s Law and is particularly relevant to climate change given the way the word “denier” is thrown at both sides. Anyway, this one breaks Godwin’s Law in the first […]
MoreVideo and in particular Youtube with its massive reach on the web, is an increasingly useful medium for communicating science. And students from the University of Auckland competing in the inaugural Comvita Video Challenge have provided evidence of that, going to great efforts to produce slick little videos communicating, in this case, the science behind […]
MoreNew Scientist last week foreshadowed today’s UK election with a look at what the scenarios are in a plurality system of government. The piece also explains the concept of the Banzhof power index which is particularly relevant to the UK election as according to polls 1/3 of voters of UK voters are going into this […]
MoreThe journal Nature this week features a very interesting article from Jonathan Shanklin, head of the Meteorology and Ozone Monitoring Unit at the British Antarctic Survey and one of the three scientists who discovered the hole in the ozone layer 25 years ago. As Shanklin explains in the piece, which is summed up pretty well […]
MoreThis one’s short, but not so sweet. From yesterday’s Dominion Post letters page.
MoreThe disastrous oil spill in the Mexican Gulf represents a complex story with lots of different angles. Newspapers have taken a stab at tackling these angles, which include the ecological impact on sea and coastal ecosystems and the work underway to try and stem the flow of oil. Graphic design departments have been working overtime to […]
MoreUPDATE: New Zealand is facing its own potential environmental crisis as a stricken container ship remains grounded on a reef near Tauranga Harbour, with 1700 tons of heavy fuel oil onboard… From last year… The ecological disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico has reminded us of how fragile our natural environment is and the […]
MoreI wasn’t in the sharpest frame of mind on Saturday morning after a big night on the town in Auckland with some journalist friends the previous night. However I couldn’t help but notice the headline screaming out from the front page of the New Zealand Herald frontpage as I passed an inner-city dairy. The headline […]
MoreA few weeks back I wrote about a team of University of Auckland engineers who had come up with a seemingly novel and low cost way to get educational information out to villages in poor outlying areas. Team One Beep was competing as part of the Microsoft Imagine Cup, where teams of university students compete […]
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