The appeal of digital cameras has often been their costs compared to film cameras. Or at least, that's what you might think. Film always takes money to buy, the develop and to print. And it's easy to quickly build up a collection of prints and negatives that are rarely ever seen again. Compared to this, the idea of taking digital pictures and storing them on a drive is well, apparently very cheap. Then you start to realise just how these costs build up. It becomes obvious after a few attempts to get colours right …
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A refreshing approach to science May 17
A few weeks ago when I was visiting Dunedin I was in conversation with a new PhD student and her supervisor. The PhD student was saying how she felt everyone …
‘Negative know-how’, one way to make money from so-called failure – KiwiNet May 17
‘Negative know-how’ was a fantastic idea thrown up at the KiwiNet commercialisation forum in Wellington on May 2. Kate Wilson was talking to about 100 people actively trying to kick …
Big coal coughs up for climate denial “conference”, takes NZ sceptics along for the ride May 16
As US corporate donors step away from the Heartland Institute following their ad campaign likening climate change believers to mass murderers and terrorists big coal — in the shape …
Mysterious crosses May 16
Continuing from my last post where I mentioned a few of the crosses in our southern skies I’m going to take a closer look at some of the weird and …
