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BP 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 […]
MoreChemtrails over Northland? Well, yes according to Clare Swinney – a massive geoengineering scheme to combat global warming and one being denied by the authorities. It’s a twist on the mass poisoning/ mass medication motive usually given by people who believe the vapour trials left by aircraft passing overhead are actually discharges of chemicals designed […]
MoreIf the treatment of Wired, the Financial Times and the BBC shows the iPad holds a lot of promise for a moribund media, signs are also good that this device and the new wave of touch-screen tablet computers could do great things for communicating science. I’ve been using the iPad for around six weeks now […]
MoreWellington Venture capitalist Jenny morel today unveiled her latest high-tech start-up and one that has the same sort of high-concept and high risk aspects of her investment in the Martin Jetpack. The idea behind the Rex Bionics exoskeleton is not unique – many engineering labs, including those of the US Army have been engaged in […]
MoreThe Wellington workshops of the Emerging Researchers roadshow featured the highest number of social scientists of all the main centres. Here’s how they summed up their research in a couple of sentences… My colleague Dacia Herbulock stepped in to run these sessions while I was down in Dunedin for the science festival. Here are her […]
MoreThe Foundation for Research, Science and Technology has today unveiled its main “public good” funding round grants which total $48 million and fund everything from the development of the New Zealand titanium industry, through to restoring wetlands. More details of these interesting research projects will hopefully emerge in the media in the course of the […]
MoreSlightly belated, but here are the results of the Palmerston North workshops on the Emerging Researchers roadshow, where scientists had five minutes to sum up their research in one or two sentences only. My top 10 favourites from Palmy… Imagine if we could have the FIFA World Cup stadium surface area condensed into a one […]
MoreMore researchers from the workshops at the University of Auckland describing their research in one to two sentences. These were the largest workshops yet so I came away with a huge number of slips of paper – not all of them are listed as a result, but this should give you a flavour of the […]
MoreThe Emerging Researchers roadshow trucks on and more researchers who participated in my Communicating your Research workshop have come up with succinct ways of describing their science or research. Apologies to those in Palmerston North, I left your workshop exercises in Wellington while I was home briefly so will post them on my return. See […]
MoreAnother city and another few dozen emerging researchers attempting to describe their research goals in a couple of sentences after just five minutes of thought. One interesting thing, Dunedin-based scientists are certainly a lot more legible than their colleagues in Christchurch! I’ve had to leave out several samples of the latter group as I couldn’t […]
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