… in Irish folk rock. (Band Corrigan Brothers, featuring Pete Creighton.)
Who says current science never makes into song?
(Lazy Sunday post, this. Now I’m off outside – beautiful Spring day.)
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April
- Ag Science hub to form near Christchurch, New Zealand
- Are too many vaccines too soon harmful?
- Social media for scientists
- Nature’s reproducibility effort: when to get data specialists on board
- How big a lump will it find?
- François Jacob
- Wringing a wet cloth in zero-G
- Men - girdle your loins with a kilt?
- Vaccination rates in NZ and what do those that delay infant immunisation think?
- Leaving academia - create your next job?
- Science-y reading
- Science! thou fair effusive ray...
- Reading winmail.dat files sent to Apple Mac users
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March
- TED revoke license of wayward Hollywood TEDx event
- Just getting a drink, Ma'
- Open access good for businesses too
- Investigate magazine struck dumb by numerology of genetic code
- Hearing aid users - survey on music perception
- Epigenetic dynamics - free
- Publish a 'popular science' version of your thesis?
- Editors, producers, journalists: drop the false balance
- Codebreakers - Wellcome traces the origins of modern genetics
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February
- Crick's letter to son, aged 12, explaining DNA structure model
- Nobel Prize for DNA structure for sale
- Nominate your favourite posts for a Science Seeker award
- Describing science
- Camouflage
- Web browser news: Opera to drop Presto and move to WebKit
- For Tolkien fans - The Science of Middle-Earth
- Epigenetics - introductory explanations
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January
- Gareth Morgan and his cat killing experiment*
- From science PhD to careers outside academia: what might help?
- Christchurch Medical School reopens after two years of closure due to earthquakes
- Sir Paul Nurse: Making science work
- Vaccination - why learn the hard way?
- Structured Procrastination, 17-Jan-2013 (Science should end, etc.)
- Immunisation Awareness Society followers - what the new page rules show
- Australia's biggest astronomy observatory overrun by bushfire
- Thieves in gold-mining era campsites
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2012
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December
- When things grow wild - post-earthquake natural succession in Christchurch gardens
- Congratulations Professor Roy Kerr
- Feeling oppressed by the administration...?
- One reason for low private sector investment in research and development
- The effect of the 'Mayan Doomsday' on clinical trials
- Mad on Radium
- Deafness
- Students, early career scientists - win an iPad in writing competition
- Help TED.com editor tackle TEDx pseudoscience
- Structured procrastination, 2 Dec 2012
- November
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October
- Seeking science reading?
- Seeing the wind
- Free - short science stories
- Communicating data clearly
- It's a small, small world (and three wise monkeys)
- On Italian earthquakes, scientists and communication
- Here's my number, so call me maybe?
- Those behind charter schools are to be exempt from public scrutiny - ?
- A vaccine discussion forum
- All together now: high-throughput sequence mapping tool compendium
- That jump
- One example of why all those genomes from different species are useful to biologists
- How vaccines work - a primer
- Guest post: Ruth and her cancer
- Should all research papers have a 'Limitations' section?
- Medicine or Physiology Nobel Prize to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for stem cell research
- Public called to contribute to NZ Science Challenges list
- What got you into science and what keeps you doing it?
- Vitamin D does not reduce colds
- Thoughts on scientific abstracts also a science writing check-list
- Google searches, verbatim and nation-specific
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September
- What would you have as a replacement for 'Close Up'?
- Survey - communicating earthquake-related science
- Fast access to biological databases from your web browser
- Last week for nominations for World-Class New Zealander Awards
- Living photographs
- On vetting TED(x) events - a suggestion
- The Panic Virus
- What kind of vegetable or fruit describes this NZ Herald article?
- Outreach sections for research papers?
- Roll up, roll up - the ScienceOnline2013 programme is out
- Media reporting of subsequent findings
- New Zealand and Australian university students - win $1500 writing about science
- Antarctica talks, photos, films - IceFest
- ISCB Wikipedia Competition
- Download your copy of the ENCODE poster
- Shaun Holt on iridologist Ruth Nelson's treatment of cancer patient Yvonne Maine
- Summer studentships
- New Zealand high performance computing on the road
- Iridologist's treatment of cancer criticised by Health and Disability Commissioner
- Nominations for open science awards
- Bad science: baking soda, fungi, cancer, nuclear fallout, rosacea
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August
- Putting government policy on trial
- Icefest
- O Occam's
- Government missing opportunity to promote links with Asia?
- Structured procrastination, 23-Aug-2012 edition
- "a blog is not the place for scientific reviews"
- Communication and trust in medicine
- NZ Skeptics Conference 2012
- Eye-balling eachother in the lab...
- Dodgy experts in the coroner's inquest into Jasmine Renata's death?
- July
- June
- May
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April
- University of Otago campus loses power
- New Zealand viewers: Hawking on Prime
- Finding a long-lost treasured item
- Campbell Live on influenza vaccines
- What kind of scientist are you?
- Epigenetics overview (video)
- George Church on genomics and personalised medicine
- And the top journals are…
- Forward to wikipedia - topic pages in computational biology
- A bioinformatics periodic table
- Do TED lectures need better vetting?
- Sunday shorts, 1st April 2012. Awards, bullet-proof hard drives and more.
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March
- Bioinformatics is a sub-discipline of molecular biology
- Blogimmuniqué: 29-March-2012
- Seduced by logic
- The world in DNA sequencers
- Teaching students to write scientific papers
- Science blogging in the New Zealand media
- To St Patrick’s day and alcohol
- A blue family
- From dying stars to dust clouds to us - star stuff, all
- Dunedin event: "Global Climate Change Treaty - Can Humanity Deliver?"
- Bioinformatics curriculum
- Japan tsunami anniversary
- "We're so used to getting a prescription that's it's surprising when we don't"
- Safari tip - checking HTML when there is no preview option
- Blogging when your science doesn't easily relate to the public
- Talking points: endless genomes and microbes, natural products industry, drunk animals, earthquake waves
- More free e-books for New Zealanders and Australians
- Hobbit production videos
- Dear journalists and editors,
- Skim - free PDF viewer and annotator for Mac OS
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February
- Homeopathy in NZ pharmacies revisited: Wartoff and more
- Elsevier withdraws support for the Research Works Act
- Tweeting from space
- It’s that brainy week again!
- Looking for our inner Neanderthal
- Are bioinformaticians gods?
- IAS talks about vaccination
- One year on
- ISCB response to Research Works Act HR-3699
- Rosie Redfield on 'Arsenic life'
- The psychology of the Christchurch earthquakes
- Great presentation - watch Hans Rosling on national income and health
- DNA sequencing on a USB stick-sized device, $US900
- Apple drops another cat at your door
- The littlest chameleon?
- A geeky valentine
- Free downloads of "Darwin" books for Darwin Day
- Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion 1945-1998
- What do scientists look like?, redux
- Bioinformatics survey
- On the bear trail, when push comes to shove - students are expendable
- Communicating complex and post-normal science to the policy maker and the public — lessons from New Zealand
- For your kids: Scientriffic and Helix
- Theoretical evolutionary genetics - free e-book
- Online lecture series on genomics and bioinformatics
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January
- "Other" career paths - #IamScience
- Medical bioinformatics / genomics challenge
- What should be taught in science communication courses?
- More science communication goodies in the wake of ScienceOnline2012
- Science communication potpourri
- Vitamin C as cancer treatment - Sir Paul Callaghan reviews his trial
- Animating our DNA*
- Homeopath says to treat a burn... burn it some more
- Elections - time for policies to be deposited in advance?
- Woo-ful MPs
- Organisations for science and science communication in developing nations
- Especially for sunny days
- ISCB to respond to Research Works Act (HR 3699)
- Initial reports are not a done deal
- The discovery of reverse gravity
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December
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2011
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November
- The Ghost Map, a TED alternative to election night programming
- The Mikovits / XMRV research saga continues
- All great stuff - Sunday reading
- The software developer's generalisation dilemma
- What use now is handwriting?
- Our pale blue dot
- Rebecca Skloot on writing creative non-fiction
- ScienceOnline2012 - only two registration slots to go
- Trust science, not scientists
- Teaching bioinformatics at high school
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October
- The coders' quotation quandary
- What do scientists want from politicians?
- Wolinsky, Kendrew and others on science blogging
- Royal Society 'aged' back catalog free, permanently
- When a City Falls - trailer for movie on Christchurch earthquakes
- Bioinformatics - QC, reproducible, statistical and sequence-oriented
- The neutrino song
- What books do you think geeks should read?
- ScienceWriters2011
- Big asteroids heading towards the earth
- C's founder is no more
- Monkey quotes
- Peter Gluckman is introducing a blog
- Carrots for my neighbour
- Whooping cough, vaccines, cocooning and the IAS
- It's A Long Way From Amphioxus
- Legions of links (and the odd thought)
- Iconic Apple CEO Steve Jobs dies
- Endless reading
- Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science
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September
- Teaching kids critical thinking
- Factoid and links - Sunday reading
- The 24/7 lab: in praise of time out
- Life sciences want bioinformatics, but not so much e-infrastructure?
- Journalists, editors and science writers - checking with the source
- I’m a scientist - the film
- Paypal's massive error, hex and nybbles
- In the near future: genome sequencing for the masses
- Christchurch rockfall
- Discussion: 'Manager-free zone' call for university
- Rugby fans - get physical
- Free books: basic statistics, evolution and origin of man
- Tracks on the Moon
- Compare broadband, mobile, TV costs and services
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August
- Mutating a line
- Local events: science story telling, non-academic careers, doctors and evidence
- Steve Jobs stands down as CEO of Apple Computer
- Not Darwin's tree of life
- How did you learn to critique the scientific literature?
- Mac OS X - quickly inspecting the contents of a file
- Corrections and clarifications
- Science reporting - accuracy does not matter?
- Who are you?
- New bioinformatics journal - EMBnet.journal
- Abbie Smith on vaccines, your immune system and viruses
- Printed books to become limited to up-market gifts?
- Safari v Opera
- All the madness in the world
- The first science films
- When the abstract or conclusions aren't accurate or enough
- Reviewing Deadly Choices
- How algorithms shape our world
- Pharyngula undergoes fission
- World report on disability
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July
- Appeals court concludes that Myriad can patent BRCA genes
- Google personalised searches and the 'echo chamber' effect?
- Science advisor position
- Should we teach examples of scientists falling for unscientific practices?
- Haemophilia - towards a cure using genetic engineering
- Research project coding v. end-user application coding
- Structured procrastination (#2)
- What genetic changes make us human?
- Before installing Mac OS X Lion
- Bioinformatics: ISMB on-line
- We have a winner...
- A Geek Nation reviewed
- Man-made bird flies
- GNS geologist Kevin Berryman speaking at July 15th Christchurch earthquake media briefing
- A forensic scientist tells it like it is - free book to give away
- Take a summer studentship in Dunedin, New Zealand
- Science blogging at Scientific American ramps up
- WordPress visual editor shortcuts for Mac OS X
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June
- Independent top-tier open-access biomedical and life sciences journal
- Christchurch earthquake, buildings and acceleration maps
- Follow the World Conference of Science Journalists on-line
- Follow arsenic life science "live"
- Christchurch earthquake land damage background
- Some thoughts on book reviews (and the cat’s progress)
- Early life (and trilobite eyes)
- Mac OS X Time Machine backups - a need for versions
- The Vulcan Laser
- Why (some) people don’t trust science
- The Christchurch / Lyttelton earthquake aftershocks news thread
- Friday video: Building a dinosaur from a chicken
- Should children be sent home from school if they are not vaccinated?
- The worm from the deep! and other stories
- Literate and test-driven programming (in bioinformatics)
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May
- Is your computing desk well set up?
- Post publication peer review - a new way of doing science?
- Arsenic life - more criticism, formally published
- What do you think is the most influential science/technology breakthrough?
- Fairy fly
- Christchurch earthquake telethon
- TEDxChCh - TEDx on the Christchurch earthquake
- Doggie ERVs
- Keeping the serendipity
- Optogenetics: light on brains
- NLM software competition (US-based applicants only...)
- Expert Witness - new forensic science book
- Aftershock tweets
- You still have to know how the tools work
- Mother’s Day - "slightly more than half of everything I am..."
- Scientist as activist
- How do you find images for your blog articles?
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April
- "One of my dreams is to drive a virus-powered car"
- National Geographic has bought scienceblogs.com?
- Sunday sci-comm snippets
- Homeopathy - practical remedies to address it?
- Ernest Rutherford's gold foil experiment
- Changing the Ph.D.
- Peter Jackson introduces the world of the Hobbit
- Crown Research Institute merger calls
- When children start mooing - a letter to the editor
- Professor Ronald and the forbidden fruit - GE apples and a New Zealand visit
- 10,000 pounds on offer in young reader’s book award
- "Knowledge is merely opinion." Storm - in cartoon and words
- The Roots of Bioinformatics in Theoretical Biology
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March
- New academic visas for New Zealand
- Feynman on appreciating things and other stories
- Wakefield, slime moulds and a short hiatus
- Smelly analogy in cartoon of nuclear plant news
- Ken Ring & March 20th - let's get back to science
- Ancient books (or I'd rather be reading)
- WWW database servers on Mac OS X 10.6.x, part III: managing the web server
- WWW database servers on Mac OS X 10.6.x, part II: installing the Perl modules
- Christchurch/Lyttelton Feb 22nd 2011 earthquake - questions and answers
- WWW database servers on Mac OS X 10.6.x, part I: Installing MySQL
- Tsunami forecast animation & warning systems
- Make it a brainy week
- Mapping connections in the brain
- Weekend shorts (including Japan earthquake links)
- Printing a human kidney
- Christchurch (Lyttelton) earthquake ground movement captured by satellite imagery
- Sinclair ZX envy
- Ken Ring's predictions - what happens on March 20th doesn't matter
- Life BBC documentary (2009) Prime 8:45pm
- High tides and earthquakes - an interview
- Clueing readers in
- Blogimmuniqué - 2nd March 2011
- Liquefaction in a barrow
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February
- Lyttelton earthquake peak ground acceleration
- Forecasting space weather and capturing paper data
- Beautiful peaceful images
- 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch
- Message to Otago Daily Times: homeopath is not a sound career option*
- Curiouser and curiouser (history of science & research topics)
- On learning the sounds of a new (spoken) language
- Backstage at the Diamond Light Source
- Darwin Day e-card - but I prefer a tree
- Of use of the active voice by scientists
- Russell Doolittle on Life before Bioinformatics
- Accessing digital legacies (experimental ones, too)
- On alternatives to academic careers and "letting go"
- A structured procrastination
- The Museum of Life (Prime 7:30pm, Fridays)
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January
- Transcribing a gene, free poster
- Egypt has taken itself off the internet (updated 29-Jan)
- Map of scientific collaborations, worldwide
- What's the weirdest university course you know of?
- Update - BMJ Wakefield series continues, fingers pointed at Lancet and Royal Free
- ScienceOnline2011 - tweets on blogging, networks and calling bullshit
- Capturing bodies - medical imaging data
- A History of Surgery on NZ TV (Prime, Sun., 9:35pm)
- Fact or fallacy, a survey of immunisation statements in the print media
- Seeking science-y reading?
- Quips from ScienceOnline2011
- Positive news
- Following ScienceOnline2011 from afar
- Local book: The Story of the Dunedin Botanical Garden
- What the cat brought in
- Wakefield autism studies slammed as fraud by BMJ
- A short not-a-post about that Xmas card
- Graphic illustration should be part of scientist's skill-set?
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2010
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December
- A holiday message to my readers
- Is New Zealand's biz/collaboration isolation reflected in airline statistics?
- Rate the readability of your blog
- Fun with ngrams
- Christmas tree
- Book review - The Poisoner's Handbook
- Mid-week entertainment - links and news
- Occam's Typewriter - a new science blogging network
- NASA: science shouldn’t be debated in media and blogs?!
- Saturday snippets
- Lecturers sitting in on colleague's lectures, and laptops
- 900 of the best
- The Hippocrates Prize - 5000 pounds for a medical-themed poem
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November
- Beauty in biology - green fluorescent protein
- But what about why it's "no"?
- Find a home for your research paper, authors, related papers - ask Jane
- In response to Garth George's dig at science…
- Desk Guide for Covering Science, and academic conferences
- OMG*
- Should media only report facts and leave interpretation to the universities?
- Professor Richard Quinn responds to exam cheats
- Google's sneak preview and encryption features
- What aspects of biology need to be explained better?
- How long does it take you to write a science blog post?
- Time Machine backups - some 'gotchas'
- Are beached whales and dolphins deaf?
- NZBIO 2011 Student Scientific Poster Competition
- Understanding the brain through controlling it
- Reviews & IV vitamin C as treatment for severe pneumonia
- Friday medley
- For those interested in science writing or journalism
- Immunisation, then and now
- If presenting a claim on a popular issue …
- Gene patents, an amicus curiae
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October
- Writing tip - avoid promoting particular booksellers…
- Fainting kittens - feline myotonia congenita?
- Friday tabs
- One thousand genomes deep
- Vaccine promotion - the medium matters too
- Open Laboratory submissions close in a month
- Another one bits the dust: Goodbye Walkman
- Paul Nurse on 'anti-science doubters' and the blogosphere
- Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing shortlist free to read
- Mac OS X dreams
- A dot in space and chromosomes
- A hot bed of germ-y journalism (aka germs on gadgets)
- Quick e-journalism tip: to copy the text not the spam link…
- Friday video: not on the Ark - (intelligent* and interesting) plants
- Find transcription factor motifs in genomes better: add histone acetylation data
- Science in the House? (Folate supplementation)
- New Zealand science and science education policy news
- Chemical-free alternatives (as seen on TV3)
- Friday fare
- Finding platypus venom
- Backups, part I
- Medicine Nobel for IVF
- Thoughts towards a human brain neural connection map
- It won't be by taking sugar pills…
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September
- Anniversary day for Code for life
- Any Brits abroad here?
- Choosing an algorithm - benchmarking bioinformatics
- Pick the Nobel winners and win
- Where do good ideas come from?
- LyX for free word-processing
- Local documentaries: NZ bats, Dunedin stadium and 1080
- Lazy Saturday videos
- Apple tip: kill Flash in Safari without quitting Safari
- Varmus on writing, Autism, infographics, NCEA, cartoons and much more
- Nature online digital edition, with 3 month trial
- Career paths, redux - the academic research career is the exception
- Descent into a boiling volcano crater, and puffing smoke rings
- I've had a sex change, am older than I am, but write happily most of the time
- How to teach elementary science - chicken feet first
- The best places to read
- Rain, sleet, snow, music and science blogs
- Autism - looking for parent-of-origin effects
- Where will science be in 30 years?
- Friday "movie"
- Science, bloggers, activists, and science as "the one true global culture"?
- Neurological shorts
- Science-y reading and open book thread
- Blogimmuniqué - comment policy
- Simon Singh & Prof. Ernst - The Truth About Chiropractic Therapy
- Earthquake, South Island, New Zealand
- Follow Science Online London, on-line
- Friday links
- Welcome PLoGs
- GoPubMed - PubMed browsing using ontologies
- Major newspaper opts for science blogging
- Who blogs on what, and why
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August
- Dictionaries, the OED, and what do you use?
- How does science work?
- Quotable lines
- Halt to funding new stem cell research in the USA
- Coiling bacterial DNA
- Vitamin C, swine flu, media, lawyers
- Science blogging aggregated and streamed
- All things pooped
- A booster falls
- A selection from Lord Robert Winston's 12 aphorisms about science
- Looking for a book to read?
- Media7 Spotlight on Science and Technology special
- Opinion: Wanting to "resolve" (climate) science with legal games...
- Friday's Factoids and Quirky Quotes
- Know the history of your field, be it science or pottery
- A brief history of science, part 3
- Sunday evening reading: factoid, articles & video
- Blogging groups, lighten up and enjoy your niche!
- A brief history of science, part 2
- Think yourself a genome poet and want to win 500 pounds?
- Somebody is wrong on the internet
- Preserving endangered species - of gut microbes
- Southerners should look to the sky tonight
- Blogimmuniqué: Scientopia, a new blog collective
- Epigenetics and 3-D gene structure
- The roots of bioinformatics
- An history of ancient science in less than ten minutes
- This discovery is mine (for a little while)
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July
- Loops to tie a knot in proteins?
- Rex and The Wrong Trousers - uncanny resemblance?
- What do you want in a Head-of-Department?
- Mid-week links and a milestone
- Who has the most bioinformatics scientists?
- Making the most of lousy book reviews on Amazon
- Consumer brain-computer interface
- Vitalism ideology in chiropractic advertising
- Beyond Preaching to the Choir
- Blogimmuniqué: Tracking the science blogosphere
- When ideas have sex
- Scientists can sue if not happy with funding priorities??
- Walking with Rex
- Scientific article download costs
- Friday photo, links and video (16th July 2010)
- Framing the post
- What famous writer do you write like?
- Honey’s anti-bacterial properties found?
- Temperature-induced hearing loss
- The scale of cellular life and compacting chromosomes
- Scienceblogs: now less to aspire to?
- Friday links
- First step of PepsiCoGate is over
- Science bite: Longevity gene study has flaws?
- Scienceblogs adds PepsiCo-sponsored blog, sparks debate
- Daily Fail attacks experts
- Web browsers: power tips for Safari users
- Boney lumps, linkage analysis and whole genome sequencing
- Blogimmuniqué: who are you?
- Friday round-up: zombies, cats, embargoes, XMRV papers
- Describe your fantasy institute
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June
- XMRV prompts media thought: ask for the ’state of play’
- Book yourself into the NZ International Science Festival
- From the science blogosphere
- Caf̩ scientifique Рlost in translation?
- Basic fluid science on the space station
- Sound bites on climate change science communication
- Royal Society publishing free to read, 1665 - today
- Institutional blogs added to scienceblogs
- Media now only report on public ignorance
- Readying yourself for the exam: cram, nude rugby or what?
- Web browsers (part not-quite 2)
- New evidence confirms Phar Lap was poisoned by arsenic?
- Friday reading - Legionnaires' Disease, human ash sculptures, and more
- Meeting - Nature, nurture and you
- In good health or not? - "natural health" advertising in newspapers, magazines
- Conspiring against science
- Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations
- Web browsers (part 1)
- Book yourself in for a lunar eclipse (with quiz)
- That Ben Goldacre fuss
- Sunday reading list (13 June 2010)
- Science, truth without certainty
- What is your relationship with your research notebook?
- Friday entertainment
- Autism genetics, how do you copy?
- University of Otago to limit entrants - your thoughts
- Know a high-flying early-career neurobiologist looking for $US25K?
- Distinguishing scams (cartoon)
- Friday shorts: The Guardian wants to hear from you & laughing in the face of reality
- To link or not to link: mainstream media and no links at all
- The World Science Festival, live on-line
- Public voting for Quark prizes now open
- New Ministry of Science and Innovation for New Zealand
- According to Brits, the top 100 inventions of all time are...
- To link or not to link: is that the question?
- Otago news: Essay and exam workshops (attn: lecturers & undergrads)
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May
- Martin Raff on what is autism
- Sunday reading - mental time warps, treating OCD, bio banking, All Whites beat Serbia
- Professors, lost souls with great oratory power?
- I remember because my DNA was methylated
- Book sales, frumpy readers, and mental rotation of book titles
- Vote for the Quarks (science blogging awards)
- Science communication shorts
- Brevia - Wakefield saga continues... struck off
- eWeather in NZ
- Synthetic genome in living cell round-up: the good, the bad and the ugly
- Synthetic life arrives
- Career motivations (video)
- Epigenetics, growing old and identical twins becoming unique
- Sunday reading list
- Testing common ancestry to all modern-day life
- Replying to the editor, in sign
- Have your say on the development of a Natural Health Products Bill
- Illusory balls
- Another R&D stimulation package leaves out the smaller players?
- Career pathways for NZ science Ph.D. students
- More science in literature done right
- Wet security attack
- Homeopath on public forum: treating babies with acute illnesses
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April
- Science walks into a bar
- Your thoughts on the future of bioinformatics in New Zealand
- National research collaborative services, open discussion
- The Anachronism (full-length short film)
- Pharmacists to say that homeopathy does not work?
- Scientists' other lives
- View the sun using the cross image fader
- Wellcome diversions
- iPads for the disabled
- Bloggers, journalists, same difference?
- On that volcanic ash and airline flights
- British Chiropractors' Association drops case against Simon Singh
- Earthquake warning systems (and twitterers)
- The iPad: a cat toy?
- A plastic ocean
- When Galaxies Collide... and directors quote-mine
- National Library of New Zealand Web Harvest 2010
- Wikipedia project available for a good home
- Alliances of pharmacists & GPs; opportunities to pressure for removal of useless "remedies"?
- Easter eggs and science
- The iPad: a device to consume, not produce
- Blogimmuniqué: commenting policies and the other room concept
- Breaking news: Singh wins appeal in chiropractic case
- LHC-based Doomsday alternatives, e-book publishing and problems in scientific publishing
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March
- Myriad Genetics patent of BRCA (breast cancer) genes denied
- LHC ready to rumble . . .
- Aww, crap.
- Congratulations C.K. Stead!
- Bioinformatics S.O.C., Not Exactly Rocket Science moves, pop science book writing
- Friday picture: molecular modelling of the cytoplasm
- Writing a popular science book; links and writers' warnings
- You can change the ideas, but not the data
- Prince or pauper? Tell Nature what you earn
- Internet news: Google redirects Chinese users to Hong Kong site
- International teamwork: Anthony Doesburg on collaborations
- Epigenetics, a confused muddle in the media
- Bioinformatics blog carnival
- New internet meme: google suggestions for scientists
- Sources for medical information for non-medics and non-scientists
- Medical DIY...
- Too much attentiveness leads to inattentiveness
- Simon Singh, leaving job to deal with chiropractic legal case
- High speed international connection? Yes, please
- Upcoming popular lectures by Professor Lawrence Krauss
- For success, create the conditions for creativity?
- Molecular biology in museums
- An horrific case of natural health treatment of cancer
- 137 years of Popular Science back issues, free
- Sunday reading links: More on Ida, YouTube captions (again), newspaper horders, books on the iPad, swine flu
- Chiropractic libel suit snagged by its own ruling body?
- New Zealand, a tsunami breakwater for Australia, teenage brains and other tales
- The inheritance of face recognition (should you blame your parents if you can't recognise faces?)
- Enabling deaf people to text emergency calls to 111
- Magnitude vs. intensity; Chile vs. Haiti
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February
- Book review: The Open Laboratory: The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2009
- Advertising campaigns: homeopathy or a sceptical series?
- Best research blogs: get ready for voting; well done Aimee and David
- Post-embargo publication delays: be gone
- Undiluted humour: If Homeopathy Beats Science
- Homeopathy check-up: Not in the health system, disclaimers on labels
- Lab lit: for bookworms who like the science to be plausible
- Dem pesky birds
- Has Andrew Wakefield resigned from Thoughtful House? (Updated)
- A course for all degrees: PHIL 105, Critical Thinking
- Tracking disease and human migration through genetics
- Happy (Geeky) Valentine's Day
- Professor, denied tenure, shoots colleagues
- Another Wakefield paper pulled?
- Preconceptual science, the dismissal-ness of it all
- Positive encouragement for vaccination
- Special edition of Biochemist E-volution: Science and the Media on-line free
- Rubella, not a benign disease if experienced during early pregnancy
- Eureka's top 30 blog; vote sciblogs.co.nz for top 100
- Lancet formally retracts Wakesfield paper
- Blogimmuniqué, 1st Feb 2010
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January
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: $10B towards vaccines
- Ecuadorian Amazonians see Avatar (in 3-D)
- Animal babies, long snouts
- The iPad, Apple's new tablet and the textbook / reference market
- Singing for science
- Blog post about blog posts with comments about comments
- Popularity does not mean effectiveness or sensibility
- Homeopathic remedies in NZ pharmacies
- Reproducible research and computational biology
- Light Sunday reading, viewing and thoughts.
- Map shows New Zealand with lowest death rate on earth in 1856, over 11 in 1000 dying
- Library access to science and popular science journals: more bad news?
- ScienceOnline2010 commentaries for those who weren't there
- British homeopathy sceptics group aims for sugar high (with Dawkins video)
- Deleting a gene can turn an ovary into a testis in adult mammals
- Your cameras has 15 mega-pixels? Bah! Mine has 570 mega-pixels.
- Teasers for day two of ScienceOnline2010
- Live broadcasts from ScienceOnline2010
- Journalist thinks world climate science publications are controlled by cabal
- External (bioinformatics) specialists: best on the grant from the onset
- For those attempting to follow ScienceOnline2010 from afar
- All this talk about 3-D movies and TVs is depressing
- And the winning entries for The Open Laboratory for 2009 are...
- ScienceOnline2010: a whole lota' readin'
- Telecom's compensation letter: remissly late?
- Blogimmuniqué: Open commenting trial at Code for life blog
- Time for disclaimers on remedies?, "alternative" or not
- Framing or explaining?: don't frame the science itself
- Blogimmuniqué
- Developing bioinformatics methods: by who and how
- Career ruminations
- More on "What is a computational biologist?" (and related disciplines)
- Science writing vs. science journalism
- Scientific baking. Great for those lab meetings or kids' parties.
- Retrospective: Credits, Dis-credits and mis-credits.
- Ginkgo biloba does not stem loss of brain function in elderly
- For those interested science journalism
- New decade cartoon: Calvin on scientific progress
- "American" dates: Happy (late) Palindrome Day (sort-of) and dates in files
- NZ biotech, Living Cell Technologies, wins research deal from US giant
- National Geographic photos of the year, 2009
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December
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2009
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December
- Video: Ardipithecus ramidus, evolution of man, chimps have more evolved hands
- Media thought: Ask what is known, not the expert's opinion
- Consensus, evidence, wikipedia and blogs
- Monkeys have a smarter way to eat bananas than most humans?
- Happy (late) solstice
- Scientists who died during 2009
- Scientists in "New Zealanders of the Year" media lists
- Friday Geek Comedy Hour: Pick-up lines
- TIME's top ten scientific discoveries for 2009
- Passengers on NZ509 Auckland to Christchurch Dec 7th, measles call
- potpourri: homeopathy, journalism masterclasses & open access
- The gossip test
- GMOs and the plants we eat: neither are "natural"
- Next Generation Sequencing workshop
- Explore ancient science books on-line
- Science talks: 100 of the best
- The End of Chiropractic?
- Banished from science writing. Words, that is.
- Retrospective–The mythology of bioinformatics
- Beautiful and informative data presentation
- Monday potpourri: maps, malaria in the USA, cholera in Dunedin and vaccines
- Science communication bookshelf: suggestions, thoughts?
- Scientists on TV: referees of evidence or expert's opinion?
- Minorities, disabilities and scientists
- Bioinformatics — computing with biotechnology and molecular biology data.
- Science book suggestions for Christmas
- Steve Thoms' points against naturopathy
- Neti pots now validated as sound science?
- £5,000 for poem on a medical subject
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November
- Royal science
- Advice for students heading to university
- Snake coughs up new species
- Craziest research paper titles, awards and authors
- The chiropractor really should stick to bones
- Computational biology: Natural history v. explanatory models
- Book review: Buried Alive
- 150 years since the publication of On the origin of species today
- Prizes, science writing, journalism, editors & newspapers
- Genetic tests and personalised medicine, some science communication issues
- More inclusive re-entry to encourage departure to businesses?
- Best newspaper award, science
- Automatic video captions for YouTube
- Genetic tests and personalised medicine
- Note to science communicators–alleles not "disease genes"
- Study of where academic careers lead
- What comedian and vaccine critic Bill Mayer wrote
- Meeting–Genomics, medicine and law
- Visual illusions, change blindness and autism
- Kiwi twitter power-allwhites hit #2 trend for day, worldwide
- Massey university cutting science budget
- Suggestion to mitigate in-fighting over new scientific ventures--?
- Donated to Science to screen
- Things I didn't write about today–tinnitus, The Human Genre Project & Press Display
- Bibliographies-why can't research papers self-document what they are?
- Live twitter stream of SCANZ 2009 conference
- Universities and (lack of) showcasing use of science degrees
- Nutt saga rattles on
- Fees or deposits for undergraduate university degree courses?
- World air traffic flow
- In Memoriam-Sir Don Beaven
- Mind the spin
- World's largest bacteria
- When is a scientific paper political campaigning?
- Gluckman on science in small countries, part I
- Picture puzzle
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October
- Observing neurons and 1960s sci-fi geeks
- Book excerpt - Losing the faces of your wife and children
- Linking text and visual content
- Windows 7 on Apple computers
- Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time
- Autistic children and blood mercury levels
- Three kinds of knowledge about science and journalism
- Doubt not certainty
- Forgetting older science
- What the chiropractor said
- Science journalism–critical analysis, not debate
- RSNZ Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing shortlist
- Scratching open your brain in your sleep and other stories (Best American Science Writing 2009)
- Textbook proposals
- Buddies, annoyances and depression
- Metagenomics-finding organisms from their genomes
- Where's here? (Hearing with one ear.)
- Sidebar scientists
- Medical remedies-burden of proof lies with seller
- Digital smiles
- Sales-fest or science?
- Monkey business, or is my uncle also my Dad?
- TV psychics: not in the real world, please
- The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
- Small world pictures
- Book review: Victorian Popularizers of Science
- September
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December
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2013
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Blogroll
- Adventures in Ethics and Science
- Bad Science
- Bioephemera
- Byte Size Biology
- Cancer Research UK Science Update Blog
- Christina’s LIS rant
- From the Hands of Quacks
- Goobledygook
- I, Editor
- Mind the gap
- Mystery rays from outer space
- Neurophilosophy
- Not exactly rocket science
- Office of the Prime Minister's Science Advisory Committee
- Reciprocal Space
- Sandwalk
- Science-based Medicine
- Speakeasy Science
- Take As Directed
- The Loom
- Whewell’s Ghost
- Wonderland
Those wanting a little reading, rather than music—or perhaps both—might try this article There was a neutrino named Bright.
I confess I’m including as much for being titled after a limerick I remember well for having been in a computer science exam. Our examiners—our lecturers—would include lighter asides in the exam including introducing me to Mordillo cartoons, which I love. The limerick is well-known, but for those of you who haven’t heard it before it goes (along one variant or other of):
There was a young lady named Bright,
who could travel far faster than light.
One day she set off, in a relative way,
and came back the previous night.