New Zealand in 2012 – a snapshot
Nice 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?
MoreThe big science stories of 2011 – Afternoons on RNZ
As 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
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Suggestions for better science journalism
The 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 […]
MorePeople lie about washing their hands
It’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 […]
MoreDumped dogs not a good look for vivisectionists
UPDATE: 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 […]
MoreOne of our best science communicators awarded
Let’s face it, finding scientists who can communicate their science effectively, understand the needs of the media and the public and are able to respond in times of crisis are rare. It was pleasing then to last night see the University of Canterbury’s Dr Mark Quigley pick up the New Zealand Association of Scientists’ Science […]
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