A Stuff.co.nz opinion article by technology writer Pat Pilcher highlights the challenge that “scientific rock star” Sir Paul Callaghan has […]
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Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
Prof Michael Baker on infectious disease in New Zealand
The lead author of research which revealed New Zealand’s dramatic rise in infectious disease talks with Nine to Noon’s Kathryn […]
Continue readingMega ministry merger – science leaders respond
A new ministry, announced today, will absorb the functions of the Ministry of Economic Development, the Department of Labour, the […]
Continue readingSynthetic biology’s future
A symposium on the future of synthetic biology (PDF) — designing and building new life forms from the ground up — […]
Continue readingBeards are for men, but leave women cold – study
A Wellington anthropologist whose doctoral thesis revived Charles Darwin’s theory that men evolved beards as a result of sexual selection […]
Continue reading12 Questions for Sir Paul – NZ Herald
For the NZ Herald Online, Sarah Daniell poses 12 questions to well-known Physicist Sir Paul Callaghan. An excerpt (read in […]
Continue readingSteven Joyce on Radio NZ
The Hon Steven Joyce, the first politician to hold the economic development, science and innovation and tertiary education portfolios simultaneously, […]
Continue readingBad headlines and science journalism
Director of the UK Science Media Centre, Fiona Fox, discusses the interplay between universities, journalists and editors in the wake […]
Continue readingThe SKA bid – an insider’s perspective
Lisa Harvey-Smith, a scientist working for the CSIRO in Australia, writes about the impending decision on the Square Kilometre Array […]
Continue readingProf Marc Wilson on the End of the World
Associate Professor Marc Wilson, from the Department of Psychology, Victoria University, talked to TVNZ’s Breakfast show about the Mayan calendar, […]
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