Well, its now illegal to make a call on your mobile phone while driving, unless that is, you make use of a hands-free kit. And as the Sunday Star Times points out, there’ll be no getting away with schemes like fixing a phone to your head with an elastic band or wedging your mobile down […]
MoreThe long-awaited final report of the 10 year-long, 20 million pound Interphone study into whether mobile phone use can cause brain cancer is set to be published before the end of the year, according to reports from the UK over the weekend. The results are expected to cause some concern for the mobile industry and […]
MoreSomething humourless for the eve of the long weekend. Just my favourites from a collection of pictures imagining the world the day after the internet was taken away.
MoreDetails just in on the Prime Minister’s newly established science prizes. Check out the website devoted to the prizes here. The jewel in the crown is the Prime Minister’s Science Prize itself – its worth $500,000 – to an individual or team undertaking breakthrough research in New Zealand. $100,000 goes to the individual or team […]
MoreAs Sciblogger Shaun Hendy has pointed out, the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology has issued a feedback document on its priorities for science and technology and called for submissions on how to make the science system deliver more for New Zealand. In the introduction to the paper, Science Minister Wayne Mapp wastes no time […]
MoreIt’s perhaps a virtue of Windows 7 that you soon forget you are working in the environment of Microsoft’s newest operating system and just get on with the computing tasks at hand. If you’re upgrading from Vista, the changes can probably best be described as cleverly subtle. There’s nothing radical here – no game-changing technologies […]
MoreI’ve spent a couple of weeks experimenting with Google Wave – Google’s new real-time communication tool, but am yet to be convinced that for the majority of users it will prove a more useful communication suite than the compelling combination of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Chat and Google Talk. What is Wave? It is part […]
MoreLast week again revealed one of the worst traits of the New Zealand media in its approach to covering climate change – giving people prime real estate to mouth off about climate-science realted subjects they are ill-equipped to comment on. Luckily, Herald readers aren’t as meek and gullible as Garth George estimates, as the letters […]
MoreThe Times of London is ramping up its science coverage with a monthly magazine on science and the environment called Eureka. The magazine will be included in the Times for UK readers and luckily for the rest of us is being made available in a rather nice e-zine format. The Times has a long tradition […]
MoreWell that certainly wasn’t the wind! Five minutes ago I’m sitting at my computer doing some work and my desk starts to jiggle. The water in the glass of water beside me is trembling. My apartment seems to lurch slightly like someone has backed a car into it. And that’s it, another quake felt in […]
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