The painful memories of last year’s America’s Cup have receded for many, but questions remain over how exactly Oracle fought its way back from being down 8 – 1 to win the Cup and embarrass Team New Zealand – and by default, New Zealand itself. Was Team New Zealand simply out-spent and out-designed by a […]
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MoreI’ve recently been re-reading The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters, the book by former Times science editor Mark Henderson, which examines the often flagrant disregard for scientific evidence shown by politicians around the world. New Zealand politicians of all persuasions are as guilty of evidence abuse as their overseas counterparts. Examples of this abound, most famously, […]
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MoreCredit to the Taranaki Daily News for running a completely new editorial in today’s paper that corrects the woeful mistake it made yesterday. Check out the column below (click to enlarge), which incidentally, ran above a column by Gwynne Dyer that looks at some of the dire predictions for global food production as climate change […]
MoreI couldn’t believe it when I heard the news. Surely its a belated April Fool’s joke, I thought? How could a respectable newspaper like the Taranaki Daily News really publish an editorial leader passing off pseudoscientific climate sceptic spin as the official view of the International Panel on Climate Change? I still don’t know the […]
MoreThere hasn’t been a decent anthrax scare in a while, but security and intelligence agencies remain primed to respond to a biological attack that could wreak havoc mechanism and scale of delivery of the agent. This infographic looks at some of the potential threats and impacts of biological attacks.
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