Science related stories and commentary
Sciblogger Michael Edmonds has been busy writing up his reflections on sessions from the SCANZ conference that was held on Feb 22 and 23 at Te Papa Museum in Wellington. SCANZ 2012 was the conference of the Science Communicator’s Association which is now into its tenth year of operation. The conference, which I presented at […]
MoreI have to confess to never having heard of the McGuinness Institute before reading their in-depth report into Government-funded science last night. Science Embraced: Government-funded science under the Microscope didn’t come with the fanfare that recent reports like Powering Innovation did, but it will get people thinking about the science system and how well geared-up […]
MoreWith 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 […]
MoreA busy last morning at Mario Zuchelli Station involved packing our pile of gear onto the back of a tractor trailer for the trip up the hill to the local airfield to be picked up by a Twin Otter aircraft. These planes work in remote conditions throughout the world. Our flight was the crew’s last […]
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?
MoreAs the year drew to a close I was interviewed on Radio New Zealand about some of the big science stories of 2011 – the Higgs Boson, Fukushima nuclear meltdown, the search for planets in the Goldilocks zone and progress in the fight against spread of HIV all featured… http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/remote-player?id=2505490
MoreThe Leveson Inquiry into phone hacking and media standards in the United Kingdom rolls on as a parade of media experts and journalists outline what’s wrong with the media and how the newsgathering process could be improved. My colleagues at the Science Media Centre in London, which celebrates its 10th birthday next April, have used […]
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 […]
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