The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, Professor Sir Peter Gluckman is in London for the 350th anniversary celebrations of the Royal Society of London and this week gave an interesting speech on the history of UK-NZ scientific collaboration. You can read the speech below or download it on the PMCSA website. A few interesting statistics […]
MoreWater fluoridation is flavour of the month again for anti-science conspiracy theorists who consider it mass-medication or in the case of Rusty Kage, sorry Kane, mass poisoning. Anyone for a root canal? Rusty? The US Centre for Disease Control ranks fluoridation of water number 9 on its top 10 list of the greatest public health […]
MoreIf you are out on the town late on Saturday night, hopefully still celebrating the All Whites trashing Paraguay, you may want to head out onto the street to look at the moon. That’s because a partial lunar eclipse will be visible across New Zealand, the South Pacific and part of eastern Australia. A lunar […]
MoreHere’s the looming problem for New Zealand – the scientific institutions that come up with innovations to keep our primary sector industries productive and contributing huge amounts to GDP are failing to attract young kiwi talent to replace the old-timers that are retiring. Hence we have, a few days after Fieldays, the following headline in […]
MoreAn interesting infographic from Reuters that ran in today’s Dominion Post and outlining the number of whales killed around the world each year for “scientific” purposes as well as the species culled.
MoreThe New Zealand Herald today carried news of interesting research by the tobacco industry which suggests New Zealand smokers have a penchant for cigarettes higher in nicotine than smokers across the Tasman. The Herald adds: The results come from a tobacco industry study… also found New Zealand smokers are exposed to the greatest average amount […]
MoreFor a couple of years its been known as Project Natal – Microsoft’s bid to do away with the game controller and usher in an era of more naturalistic video game playing. A few hours ago on the eve of the the E3 video game expo in Los Angeles, Project Natal received its official debut […]
MoreSir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor, made a reasonable impact with his lecture on climate change delivered at Victoria University last week. A few media outlets covered the event running an NZPA article and climate skeptics were furious, urging Prime Minister John Key to “rein in” his science advisor or sack him. […]
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