Excerpts from a column by Professor Gluckman, director of the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, a leading centre for research […]
Continue readingReflections on Science
Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
Biofuels still the way to go
Professor David Harries, Director of the Centre for Excellence into Energy for Sustainable Transport at Australia’s Murdoch University & Curtin […]
Continue readingChris Barton: Copyright not about criminalising kids
Chris Barton writing in today’s New Zealand Herald slams the section 92a provisions of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act […]
Continue readingNZ Herald: Mike Lee on the Hauraki Gulf as a marine park
Mike Lee, Hauraki Gulf conservationist and chairman of the Auckland Regional Council, laments the slow progress towards establishing the Hauraki […]
Continue readingGenetic testing – the legal and ethical questions
Lawyers, scientists and health officials gathered in Wellington yesterday to discuss the findings of the University of Otago’s Human Genome […]
Continue readingPaul Callaghan: Wool to Weta – Herald feature
Dr Paul Callaghan, Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University has just launched his book Wool to Weta: […]
Continue readingOwen Hembry: Food miles issue still a vital one
Owen Hembry writing in the Herald about the latest NZIER report on food miles. An excerpt from the column, published […]
Continue readingSustainability and the financial crisis
“No country, not even one as geographically isolated as New Zealand, is insulated from the damages of a global financial […]
Continue readingCrocodiles in Canada, palm trees at the poles
55 million years ago, the Earth was a much warmer place than it is today. Shockingly warm, in fact. And […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Tomiko Yamaguchi on reporting of GMOs in Japan
Another podcast of a presentations of research at the Science Technology and Society workshop held in Wellington in early December […]
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