Following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in the Samoan islands, an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra has also caused […]
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NZ Herald: The Australian town that kicked the bottle
A story in the New Zealand Herald about Bundanoon, the tiny Australian town which has just banned the sale of […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Rick Boven – NZ poor at transforming science into business
Rick Boven, director of the privately funded think-tank the New Zealand Institute, argues that New Zealand must improve its ability […]
Continue readingFirst major test of NZ tsunami gauge network
Several dozen people are dead in the Samoan islands following a magnitude 8.3 earthquake this morning that was centred 205 […]
Continue readingNZ’s largest science blog network goes live
The Science Media Centre today launches a major new science communication effort with the arrival of Sciblogs, a network of […]
Continue readingDominion Post: Scientists need to be entrepreneurs
Opinion piece in the Dominion Post by Godfrey Bridger, a business consultant, Foundation for Research, Science and Technology reviewer and […]
Continue readingNZ Skeptics Conference – Is Science Just Mysticism in a Lab Coat?
Bernard Beckett is a High School Teacher and writer. In 2005 he spent a research year at the Allan Wilson […]
Continue readingNZ Skeptics Conference – Is Economics a Science or a Religion?
Brian Easton is well known as an economist, a profession which he arrived at through a scientific route at the […]
Continue readingNZ Skeptics Conference – Strange Occurrences: our approach to paranormal investigation
James Gilberd is 46, has a Bachelor of Design, photography major, Victoria University 1997, and works as a commercial photographer […]
Continue readingDubious device goes unquestioned in Herald rat poison article
A page 6 article yesterday in the NZ Herald on Sunday featured claims by a Waiheke Island advocacy group that […]
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