Dr Gareth Edwards-Jones, Principal investigator on a study of the comparative merits of consuming vegetables produced locally and overseas speaking […]
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Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
Peter Gluckman: Mixed cues confuse young brains
Excerpts from a column by Professor Gluckman, director of the Liggins Institute, University of Auckland, a leading centre for research […]
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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 […]
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