This time a year ago, the media was going big on one particular story – SWINE FLU! News stories today report intensive care units across New Zealand and Australia were on the verge of turning away seriously ill patients during the pandemic, due to a twelve-fold increase in the number of flu patients being put […]
MoreI’m not sure which letter is crazier, the first letter published in the Southland Times on April 23, or the reply published in today’s paper. What animal did that old bone come from? Was it the Murrells’ old nag? So many questions. One thing is for sure, there’s definitely a fair bit of fuzzy science […]
MoreUS President Barack Obama may have signed a milestone agreement a couple of weeks ago with Russia to reduce nuclear warhead stocks in both countries. But when it comes to nuclear power stations, production looks set to gear up in the US as states attempt to secure future electricity supply. And as this graphic from […]
MoreAardvark’s Bruce Simpson and tech reporter Juha Saarinen have this morning raised some pretty valid concerns about a story the New Zealand Herald is carrying about a New Zealand-made fuel combustion technology known as “Fuel Star”. The story, which has no byline and comes with a “supplied” photo, begins with the optimistic intro: Fuelstar Fuel […]
MoreWhen I was reporting for the Herald on convoluted and long-running stories like the dismantling of Telecom’s monopoly on the phone and internet market, I felt obliged to cover each major phase of the story through to completion. It seems the same isn’t true of the New Zealand media in general when it comes to […]
MoreThis one, from today’s Taranaki Daily News, isn’t so much about science as animal welfare and isn’t so much crazy as it is eccentric. But I thought it was fantastic and needed to be shared with Sciblogs readers…
MoreConsider these two headlines published in the last couple of days: New Zealand Herald: Major research finds link between multi-vitamin pills and breast cancer BusinessWeek: Supplements might reduce breast cancer risk Both are top search results on Google News, but don’t they seem to contradict each other? Let us look a little more closely at […]
MoreApart from the excellent kids programme Lets Get Inventing, there hasn’t been a family-orientated science TV show commissioned in New Zealand for years. So it is great news that TVNZ has commissioned a show for the TVNZ7 channel available on Freeview and on Sky as well. I’ve spoken to several companies that have pitched ideas […]
MoreThis infographic comes from the Health & Science pages of today’s Sydney Morning Herald, which features an interesting feature on pancreatic cancer. Accompanying the story is the infographic below. At first I found it a little confusing as I tried to decode it moving from top to bottom when in fact you need to start […]
MoreLast week, the media was full of stories of the carnage on our roads over Easter and the growing chorus of calls to cut the blood alcohol limit to tackle drunk drivers. MacDoctor is sceptical a cut – from the current limit of 80mg/100ml to 50mg/100ml, will make any difference. But scientists in an SMC […]
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