The Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment has just released the last of its Sectors Report Series, a very useful snapshot of the New Zealand economy and which sectors contribute what economic output. Many Sciblogs readers, according to the demographic info a computer algorithm throws up for you, are involved in the knowledge intensive services […]
MoreSciblogs readers may remember the kerfuffle in December when Otaki’s Damon Wyman led a campaign to have Wifi hotspots removed from classes at Te Horo School. I wrote about it at the time here on Sciblogs, taking issue with Wyman’s misguided campaign, which was ultimately successful when the Te Horo Board of Trustees surveyed parents […]
MoreThe reviews are in for Neil de Grasse Tyson’s reboot of the classic Carl Sagan TV series Cosmos and the reception has been overwhelmingly positive. The first episode of the series, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey debuted on Sunday night in the US with an estimated 8.5 million people tuning in to watch it across Fox […]
MoreFollowing my last post on Wi-fi networks and their alleged health effects and my follow-up Listener column that resulted in several complaints about me to the editor from the anti Wi-fi lobby, I’m quite pleased to see the latest major study out of the UK on mobile phone and electromagnetic fields. Basically it says that […]
MoreWhat can we expect to happen in one thousand years, 100,000 years, one trillion years time? Here are some possible scenarios… Explore more infographics like this one on the web’s largest information design community – Visually. http://a.visual.ly/api/embed/102883?width=600
More“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?” wrote Victor Hugo in Les Miserables. That tidbit of microscope trivia and others are nicely outlined in this infographic charting the history of the device that occupies lab benches the world over…
MoreAs political apathy and inaction on climate change dims hopes of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, scientists are increasing exploring plan B – engineering the climate to avoid the worst of what is predicted to come if emissions can’t be curtailed. A Royal Society of London paper put the issue squarely in the spotlight in 2009 […]
MoreThe death of Horowhenua child Ethan Wyman from a brain tumor is tragic news. A family is grieving, the students of Te Horo School have lost a friend and classmate. Ten year-old Ethan apparently slept with an iPod device beneath his pillow, likely listening to music or playing games on it after hitting the sack […]
MoreFrom the first vat-grown hamburger to the discovery of the world’s largest volcano, scientists pushed back the limits of human knowledge in 2013 and developed technologies that could radically change how we live our lives. Over at the Science Media Centre, in conjunction with our colleagues at the AusSMC, we assembled the top 10 picks […]
MoreI was on This Way Up on Saturday talking tech with host Simon Morton. You can click on the player below to listen to the segment and my thoughts on some of the issues we covered in the commentary below… http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/remote-player?id=2579034 Yahoo Xtra mail fail I was alerted to the latest vulnerability in YahooXtra’s mail […]
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