We always do well on these types of lists, the ones that rank countries on how desirable they are to live in. Our pristine surroundings, moderate climate, low rate of crime and corruption, excellent health system, reasonable cost of living and lack of state oppression have helped put us at number 5 on International Living’s […]
MoreThe Consumer Electronic Show was a little humdrum this year, but then it also was in 2008 and 2007, the last year I attended, when the launch of the Apple iPhone at the rival MacWorld conference during the same week really took the wind out of the CES sails (and sales). In January 2007, Windows […]
MoreNew Zealand and Australia experienced their warmest periods in the decade just closed since records began according to data released by NIWA and Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology. While 2009 was slightly cooler overall than the 1971 – 2000 average, says NIWA, the decade was still the warmest, followed by the 1980s, the 1970s and the […]
MoreGoogle has set the agenda on the eve of the CES tech show in Vegas with the launch this morning in San Francisco of its Nexus One Google-made smartphone. Here are the main specs, courtesy of Information Week: The Nexus One runs Android 2.1 — available as open source in the next few days — […]
MoreThe Sunday Star Times has compiled a table (see below) of university degrees and what graduates from these degrees can expect to earn after a year and three years in the workforce respectively. Not surprisingly, science, health and engineering graduates have much better earning potential than those working in tourism, architecture, agriculture, sports, creative arts and […]
MoreA series produced by Statistics New Zealand looking at the statistics behind travel, food the Consumer Price Index and much more… PART 1 -What food costs PART 2 – Of lettuces, strawberries and things PART 3 – What we buy PART 4 – Summer travel PART 5 -Where are we travelling? PART 6 – Why […]
MoreIt’s been a tragic end to the year for the profession of journalism with a fledgling reporter and a seasoned journo dying in unusual accidents. Helen Bain (38), the former Dominion Post reporter and Sunday Star Times political editor has been revealed as the woman who drowned when she fell from her horse attempting to […]
MoreMy tech discussion with Simon Morton and Rowan Quinn on Summer Report this morning centred on the increasingly convincing rumours circulating about the looming arrival of a tablet computing device created by Silicon Valley giant Apple. MacRumours, Wired and Tech Crunch are all reporting that Apple registered the islate.com web domain back in 2006 and […]
MoreSeveral of our Scibloggers will be featuring over the next few weeks on Radio New Zealand’s summer programmes talking science. Dr Fabiana Kubke kicked off today with a discussion on Summer of Noelle about tuis and her citizen science project. I’ll update this post throughout the holidays with links to the audio as more Scibloggers […]
MoreThe Sunday Star Times yesterday published a list of the top ten best-selling non-fiction books of 2009 in New Zealand (see below). It is a woeful list by any measure. Crockpots dominated. The only thing we have to be thankful for was that crackpots like Ian Wishart were absent from it. In previous years, decent […]
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