In a New Year special, Britain’s The Independent asked 80 scientists what we can do to attempt to save the […]
Continue readingReflections on Science
Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
Kirstie Knowles: Human predators driving sharks to the brink
Kirstie Knowles, marine conservation advocate for Forest & Bird, writes in today’s Herald about the devastating impact of long-line fishing […]
Continue readingScience top 10 2008 – what were the biggest discoveries?
The most significant scientific breakthroughs of 2008 as judged by Time and Science magazines make for interesting reading. Here are […]
Continue readingJoe Bennett: Potatoes swimming in gravy
Dominion Post columnist Joe Bennett on the significant events that transpired in the International Year of the Potato. Column available […]
Continue readingShaun Coffey: Now is the time for more R&D, not less
IRL chief executive Shaun Coffey writing in the New Zealand Herald today, comments on the Government’s plan to scrap the […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Coverage of genetic modification in the NZ media
How has the New Zealand media approached the touchy issue of genetic modification? By marginalising interest groups pointing out the […]
Continue readingBlackman: Humanity strand of Rutherford legacy
Dr Allan Blackman, associate professor in the chemistry department at the University of Otago, write’s about Sir Ernest Rutherford’s support […]
Continue readingMonbiot: Report futile in the face of runaway climate change
From The Guardian, December 2, a column by George Monbiot commenting on Lord Turner’s cliamte change report. More at Monbiot’s […]
Continue readingUpton: We need new middle ground on climate change
Simon Upton on the way forward for tackling climate change. Read in full here. “…for the sake of environmental credibility […]
Continue readingCalculating the emissions from a ‘standard cow’
An opinion piece from Australia businessman Tom Quirk, who spent 15 years as an experimental research physicist, university lecturer and […]
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