The families of up to 30 miners and contractors working at the Pike River coal mine on New Zealand’s West Coast face an agonizing wait overnight until a rescue effort can be launched in the morning to attempt to reach the miners. That rescue effort was tonight hampered by worries that in the wake of […]
MoreUPDATED: The Running Hot conference for emerging researchers is underway in Wellington – follow updates via Twitter @smcnz. Last night kicked off with an interesting panel discussion moderated by Radio New Zealand’s science-friendly Nights host, Bryan Crump. Crump quizzed three scientists on their areas of research, with included climate change, neuroscience and epigenetics. Before that, […]
MoreThis science blog network was launched a year ago today and as the editor and co-founder of the network I want to take the chance to thank the hard-working contributors to Sciblogs. I also want to thank you our readers. Many of you have engaged with us and each other in intelligent and robust debate […]
MoreThere were lots of articles published in the New Zealand Medical Journal last week that were worthy of mainstream media coverage. Chronic funding shortages for cochlear implants, the red tape involved in doing clinical research in New Zealand, sleep apnoea in Wellington taxi drivers. In the letters section, we had the raging debate over Linda […]
MoreAs Australia rolls towards a Federal election a fair amount of pork barrel politicking is underway as Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott fight to swing the divided electorate their way. Still, there hasn’t been much for science, the only significant thing outlined in Labor’s science policy released this week being the […]
MoreThe doctor who, for whatever reasons, nurtured the myth that the MMR vaccine causes autism has been struck off by the General Medical Council making it impossible for him to practice medicine in the United Kingdom. But the decision by the GMC to dismantle Andrew Wakefield’s career once and for all is unlikely to convince […]
MoreWellington-based Trade Me founder, entrepreneur and philanthropist Sam Morgan sat down with me a few weeks ago to do an interview, the results of which ran in Idealog. Here’s the full, unedited version which expands on the work he is involved in in Africa. What about this inclement Wellington weather? Is it tempting you to […]
MoreDid you know that to produce one kilogram of New Zealand lamb and ship it to the other side of the world produces 19 kilograms of emissions in the form of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases? That sounds like a lot and it is when you compare it to the carbon footprint of producing and shipping […]
MoreJust when the country is confronted with vexing environmental questions – whether to mine on conservation land, how to manage water assets in Canterbury, what should be done about the Japanese and their cravings for whale meat – the New Zealand Herald drops its dedicated environment page. The Herald‘s timing is impeccable. Impeccably bad. The […]
MoreMost of the rumours proved to be true, testament I suppose to how hard it is for a company of Apple’s stature to develop a product secrectly in a world as inter-connected as ours. Here’s the spec sheet for the new Apple iPad: 9.7 inch IPS display 0.5 inches thin 1.5 pounds Full capacitive multi-touch […]
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