Another freaky medical case
A while ago the New Zealand Medical Journal explained why it is unwise to run around with a toothbrush in your mouth. Now British medical journal The Lancet delivers sound advice against playing soccer – or any kind of sport, with your keys on a chain around your neck. The journal reports that the 15 […]
MorePepsigate revisited
Have you ever been to a conference where more than half the attendees are tapping away on smart phones, laptops or tablet computers while the main keynotes and panel discussions are underway? Welcome to the world of social media conferences, where attendees practice what they preach – firing off tweets, microblogs, status updates and audio […]
MoreThe mother of all languages?
I keep a fairly close eye on where New Zealand science is covered in the international press. So it was good then to see University of Auckland psychology lecturer Dr Quentin Atkinson featured in the Wall Street Journal and other major news outlets for his paper published in Science last week which suggests that our […]
MoreGluckman: base policy decisions on the evidence
It barely attracted any coverage when it was released following the Prime Minister’s post cabinet press conference last night, but Sir Peter Gluckman’s discussion paper on evidence-based policy is possibly one of the most important he has released thus far. The Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister has made a call for government departments […]
More50 years after Gagarin
Russia is this week remembering the golden age of its space exploration programme with the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s orbit of the Earth, the first manned space flight, which paved the way for human exploration of space. The Herald on Sunday ran the following useful infographic which breaks down the steps in the historic […]
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