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2010
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March
- 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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March
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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
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December
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2010
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