How to Become a Superhero – Pt I Aimee Whitcroft Feb 05
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2009
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December
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- Testimony of non-believers
- The Brain Observatory project takes on a herculean task of whole-brain atlas
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- Behind the scenes in Copenhagen: 2
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- On the Turning Away
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- XT network falls over
- Artists and politicians gather to save Canterbury's water
- Australian Pied Herons
- Bus adverts and the 2011 NZ census
- Science talks: 100 of the best
- TIVO review part 3 and final thoughts
- So what is a gene, exactly?
- Sunday Spinelessness - a snail!
- First Aid
- of ant hotels and homicidal figs
- Behind the scenes in Copenhagen: Oxfam’s view
- Peer Review for the Climate "Science" Coalition
- [Open] Science Sunday – 13.12.09
- Imagining 2020: Green Crude
- Demand Driven
- Glass evidence kits for pubs!
- DNA – conviction and freedom
- did ancient jellyfish sting?
- Summer holidays...
- Where are all the Kiwis at Copenhagen?
- The End of Chiropractic?
- Dog sniff line-ups: junk science
- Correct Diagnosis
- Spam Journalism #65
- The business of climate change – who really bears the burden?
- Getting the timing right for song control
- an update on xenotransplantation
- Introducing Shady, or, how to get a robot to do what a blind can
- PittConnect and online scientists
- Christchurch art exhibit on local water fight
- Extinction risk of Polar Bears exaggerated
- Water news haikus no. 7
- Are they sceptics or deniers?
- Death on Ice
- holiday photos
- Scientists squeeze more out of light
- More than a number
- How to make a 100ft glowstick
- Climate change
- Absolutely stunning: 100 days in Glacier National Park
- Number spoofing, spam and email hacks
- New Zealand’s denier-gate
- Banished from science writing. Words, that is.
- Copenhagen: opening thoughts
- 2009 RS&T Scorecard released
- 2000s warmest decade ever, 2009 to be 5th warmest year
- Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation
- Climate debate by TV text poll - no contest
- Retrospective—The mythology of bioinformatics
- From Blackholes to a Laptop near you...
- Small Transistors
- Welcome Flat springs cooler after July earthquake
- Environmental movement needs pragmatism
- The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
- Beautiful and informative data presentation
- Two Native Skink Photos
- do flies do housework?
- CRU emails show fraud? Yeah, right.
- Laid to Rest
- NZ temps: more stations, no adjustments, still warming
- Magic cooking
- Monday potpourri: maps, malaria in the USA, cholera in Dunedin and vaccines
- World leaders, 20 years on and sorry
- Climategate - the truth behind the 'truth'
- A boost to my vocabulary
- UK Legal Aid Report – lessons for NZ?
- DNA database – how long to keep samples from innocent people?
- Leopard seals #2
- Scientists and our opinions
- Second Life and the future of education
- Five Insect Photos
- Haiku news no. 6
- Science communication bookshelf: suggestions, thoughts?
- Goodness gracious me
- If doctors used climate science, part 2
- The global warming conspiracy?
- Pepper spray and cocaine – a lethal mix?
- Summer Means Cicadas- Photo
- Sunday Spinelessness - collembola 2.0
- re-post: a worm, but not as we know it
- Scientists on TV: referees of evidence or expert's opinion?
- Climate Change 101: an educational resource
- [Open] Science Sunday – 6.12.09
- Bad Doctor (2)
- Our emissions profile at a glance
- The walking dead in Copenhagen
- Come on Paul, Colin...
- Minorities, disabilities and scientists
- New Zealand’s climate change deniers’ distortions exposed.
- some interesting links to follow
- If Doctors Used Climate Science…
- Antarctic science review: greening and melting
- The first blog?
- Waves in a plasma
- Living Cell Technologies
- Remove support for child abuse
- Incredible timelapse of marine monsters
- Bioinformatics – computing with biotechnology and molecular biology data.
- A+ for Australian Marine Scientists
- Hey, Calcium, show me the way!
- Imagining 2020: The age of the bloody lucky
- Sounds Familiar
- Deniers in denial over climate information
- Molecular ecologists meet in the Catlins
- Science book suggestions for Christmas
- Rainbows
- Saltwater Crocodile Photos
- Thicker Than Water
- Crunching the numbers on the CRIs
- NZ temps: warming real, record robust, sceptics wrong
- Climate change: 10 ideas to save the planet
- Shock revelation: top NZ climate scientist admits global conspiracy to warm planet
- Richard Dawkins in Auckland – update
- Steve Thoms' points against naturopathy
- It's not all white labcoats and spreadsheets folks.
- Forensic scientists raising money for rape victims – appropriate?
- New Zealand science's most influential people
- please do not adjust your set
- A thread of hope
- Being good – no gods required
- Neti pots now validated as sound science?
- Spam Journalism #64
- £5,000 for poem on a medical subject
- Yes, we are doomed.
- GM probe: Minor transgressions...major implications
- gannet monogamy model moot
- Rocket Science and Spam
- The Atea-1 rocket launch
- The road to science funding (is full of speed bumps)
- Peer review – an emotional roller coaster
- Mycroft Monckton makes mischief
-
November
- Rocket launch - NZ blasts into space
- Royal science
- The best of Royal Society publishing - 350 years' worth!
- Trailblazing
- It's TAM Australia, baby!
- Evolutionary tunes #2
- Peek-a-boo: Monarch butterfly chrysalides
- More reptiles- garden skink photos
- Orbits
- moa evolution & new zealand's geological past
- IPTV Trials by TelstraClear in New Zealand
- Climate change deniers live in glass buildings
- Advice for students heading to university
- Who writes Rodney’s rubbish?
- Wherefore the hammerhead?
- Star Times' take on Copenhagen
- [Open] Science Sunday-29.11.09
- The cheap supercomputer
- Force Quit
- Snake coughs up new species
- Imagining 2020: The Age Of Smart
- Climategate brought out the worst in us
- Ice Age
- Craziest research paper titles, awards and authors
- Justification for the existence of vampires
- Richard Dawkins in Auckland next March
- What if Earth had rings like Saturn's?
- Dazed and confused
- facilitated communication?
- A quick and dirty guide to Global Warming for NZ
- The benefits of collaboration
- Haiku news no. 5
- Ethical Jab?
- The chiropractor really should stick to bones
- NZ sceptics lie about temp records, try to smear top scientist
- “Climategate” – the smoking gun?
- Australian magpie geese photos
- Computational biology: Natural history v. explanatory models
- How to get publicity
- evolutionary image... fail
- Appropriate thanks
- Book review: Buried Alive
- Synapse #fail, Science #win
- Marvellous distempered: the Copenhagen diagnosis
- Global Warping
- REALLY Big Toys
- Weakened ETS now law
- Persistent Vegetative States and the Problem with Facilitated Communication
- Excellent Book 2: Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers
- Climate change: The science explained in simple terms
- Awesome pictures from the Enceladus flyby
- Imagining 2020: A Low Carbon Future? Bah! Humbug!
- The LHC's first collisions
- Crocodiles- a conservation success story- Part IV
- How to save the world and earn money
- Happy Birthday, Charles
- 150 years since the publication of On the origin of species today
- The pros and cons of direct to consumer genomics
- off to entertain at cafe scientifique
- Gratuitous use of polar bears
- Watergate was not about water
- Prizes, science writing, journalism, editors & newspapers
- Those “climategate” emails
- A phylogeny of hydrological thought
- How resilient are coral reefs to tsunamis?
- Blink and you miss it
- Origin of the Species- 150 Years On
- The final frontier
- Nifty forensic science techniques – real CSI
- Genetic tests and personalised medicine, some science communication issues
- Don’t let a thief steal into your heart
- Emergency Clairvoyance
- regulating supplements
- Change and passion with FTTH
- Ain’t no mountain high enough
- Kenya forest dwellers evicted: video
- New family tree for moa
- Crocodiles- a conservation success story- Part III
- No. 8 Wire
- Science as a contact sport
- An Introduction to Evolution
- More inclusive re-entry to encourage departure to businesses?
- whence the nucleus?
- Dead Babies
- Thermite and liquid nitrogen
- Climate centre hacked
- Oram on ETS debacle: Business Council for Sustainable Development ordered to shut up by big emitters; Nick Smith guilty of “breathtaking hypocrisy”
- Wellingtonians lap up 9/11 conspiracy theory rubbish
- You heard it hear second
- Sunday Spinelessness - millipede
- [Open] Science Sunday – 22-11-09
- How to make money from your science
- Best newspaper award, science
- Cut Short
- argh! the dreaded mercury!
- Saturday science coverage - two thumbs up for the Herald and the Listener
- FTTH Excitement in Auckland
- Automatic video captions for YouTube
- Just Don’t Look at My Liver
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Forensic DNA resource
- Part 3: CSI effect/forensic science jobs
- White Heron Photos
- Trickle down carbon sequestration
- Genetic tests and personalised medicine
- what's in the water?
- Prisoner's Dilemma
- Pollen, pooh and the extinction of mammoths
- Water news haikus no. 4
- NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – November ‘09
- Excellent book: Death’s Acre – Beyond the Body Farm
- Happy World Toilet Day
- TIVO reviewed - part 2
- Note to science communicators—alleles not "disease genes"
- Degrees of Science Communication
- Rudd brooks no denial
- speciation in darwin's finches
- Not just a pretty face: The facial ruff of barn owls and sound localisation
- Bad Doctor
- Blood pattern analysis – how to get started!
- hummingbirds & the high cost of s*x
- Bus problems
- Stop me and buy one
- Today's Crocodile Photo
- Galileo and Hollywood
- Wrong Answers
- Tip of the Iceberg
- Aquaflow’s NZ tech impresses China
- The ribo what?
- Study of where academic careers lead
- Zipf's law and the distribution of patents among applicants
- Distorting Darwin
- What comedian and vaccine critic Bill Mayer wrote
- vending machines bugged
- InaDWriMo
- Crocodiles- a conservation success story- Part II
- a guest post from an olympian
- Take Your Hands Off My Stash
- Imagining 2020 — the world will be what we make it
- Quietly hopeful at CERN
- The search engine that fights crime
- The 100-year-old doctor still on a mission
- Where the crocodiles are
- Our Choice: Al’s plan to solve the climate crisis
- Crocodiles- a conservation success story- Part I
- Kenya to evict forest dwellers to increase water supply
- Exploring the infrared universe
- The science system - how we stack up
- things that go BANG!
- The rules of science
- Meeting—Genomics, medicine and law
- Herding Cats
- TIVO reviewed - part 1
- Sunday Spinelessness - damselflies
- Random use of the word 'exponential'
- Visual illusions, change blindness and autism
- Rage against the machine
- Open Science Sunday – 15.11.09
- Water discovered on the moon
- Kiwi twitter power-allwhites hit #2 trend for day, worldwide
- topical 1080
- Massey university cutting science budget
- Suggestion to mitigate in-fighting over new scientific ventures--?
- Is this the world’s slowest lab turned around time?!
- Wearable computers
- Twittering in space
- Chic mobiles
- ten questions about intelligent design
- Rats, Bad Decisions and Jelloshots
- As you sow… (aka the “bugger” moment)
- Gluckman: stop the science infighting
- Mystery organism photo of the month – November
- Water news haikus no. 3
- Morality – from the heavens or nature?
- Donated to Science to screen
- The teapot effect, end of
- National’s ETS: the kids can pay
- What's that buzzing?
- Making science culturally appropriate
- florence nightingale was a statistician
- Bjorn Lomborg’s op-ed sense and non-science
- Don’t accept the forensic science at face value
- Things I didn't write about today—tinnitus, The Human Genre Project & Press Display
- lumping, splitting, and the morphological species concept
- Sweet Deal
- Does fish oil help children to learn?
- Photos from around Darwin
- This Hell would be useful!
- Accidental Baby
- Genomes galore on the horizon
- a question of isolation
- Date-rape drink spiking – is it real?
- 10:10 on its way to NZ
- Group dynamics
- Wind more welcome some places than others
- Bibliographies-why can't research papers self-document what they are?
- One step closer to harvesting kelp
- Live twitter stream of SCANZ 2009 conference
- Bring on the computer
- A Good Media Story
- Einstein on Galileo’s contribution
- Universities and (lack of) showcasing use of science degrees
- New Zealand's first dinosaur footprints!
- Weta to begin publishing R&D output
- Obamacare Wins (Maybe)
- dinosaur footprints in new zealand
- Forecast
- [Open] Science Sunday – 8.11.09
- Canterbury Water Management Strategy
- Sunday Spinelessness - action sequence
- Nutt saga rattles on
- Excellent thoughts on Aussie NBN
- Bolivia: the necessity of adaptation
- Fees or deposits for undergraduate university degree courses?
- Geometric Growth and finding our Mojo
- viral evolution - 'evolution before our eyes'
- Google, Waves and Fireflies
- Saltwater Crocodile Photos IV
- TXT Language Redeemed
- Happy Birthday
- Water news haikus
- Why Evolution Is True
- What you call this? Linguistic morphology of chemical names and lost in translation
- World air traffic flow
- Restraining Health Costs
- Meeting the two Steves
- In Memoriam-Sir Don Beaven
- Ares Boldly Goes
- Australia's only stork species- Jabiru photos I
- Eating high tea with chopsticks
- What's the catch?
- fluoride reloaded
- Diverse mix in Deloitte's Fast 50
- 16,000 firecrackers going off
- Africa says do what science requires
- Lowering Pharma firewalls: Just for Bioinformatics or Chemoinformatics also
- What is a karonkka?
- Professor Nutt's New Scientist explosion
- Tim Groser to FedFarmers: Water is the key
- Doctors 4, Labtests 0
- Richard Dawkins in Wellington next March
- Mind the spin
- Foot odour, anyone?
- Saltwater Crocodile Photos III
- Muddled economics ignore reality
- CSI effect: the speed and appliance of science
- The clash of science and politics
- World's largest bacteria
- CRI taskforce: Shake it up baby
- Abortion is Maddening
- KANZ 09 (Korea-Australia-New Zealand) Broadband Summit.
- More dope than veges grown in Scotland every year!
- Solved: the problem of the cross-dressing frogs
- The CSI effect – it’s real!
- turning kids on to science: the spectrum revisited
- Now Or Never
- The endless pace of technology
- Time lapse transit of the Panama Canal
- Flying Jacana Photos
- the importance of evolution for modern medicine
- Amazing! Thanks to Benoît Felten for this snippet!
- When is a scientific paper political campaigning?
- How do birds sense the Earth’s magnetic field?
- NZ's no 8 wire, corroding
- When science and politics collide - the fallout from the Nutt affair
- Gluckman on science in small countries, part I
- Backing Up Evolution
- Problems and solutions to tiger poaching- are we getting any closer?
- Picture puzzle
- RIP – Theo van Gogh
- Can NZ juries do the job with which they are charged? Law review
- Einstein's Cosmic Speed Limit
- Beyond cornflakes
- The Body Farm
- Punching above our weight
- Saltwater Crocodile Photos II
- Beware the Demons!!!!!*
- Promoting confusion
- Patents: Australia vs New Zealand
- We're hands-free but should it be a total mobile ban?
- Handwash
- Probing the depths of snow
- Climate Change in Africa
- Sunday Spinelessness - crab spiders
- [Open] Science Sunday – 1-11-09
- Gladwell states as guidlines for a better omics data management
-
October
- Spam Journalism #62
- Observing neurons and 1960s sci-fi geeks
- a tale of several fishes
- Just in from Malaysia - maybe some parallels to draw?
- Book excerpt - Losing the faces of your wife and children
- Jacana or Jesus Bird Photos
- The3is in three final
- wolves in the cross-fire
- another contender for 'best blog post title'
- Judging the internet – and books
- Science news haikus
- Linking text and visual content
- Skepticism can be fun
- Are vitamins killing you?
- Moving disembodied voice aids attention
- Using words is OK
- …Some fish, some barrel
- Optical Cell 2 Duo lac operon: Bridging the gap between Bacteria and Yeast
- Helices turn right or left
- Obama’s new pathways for power
- Windows 7 on Apple computers
- The Ares I-X Launch
- Sea Eagle Photos from the Mary River
- Orokonui Ecosanctuary to open
- Saltwater Crocodile Photos I
- How is human noise affecting the environment?
- A Universe From Nothing
- Fellatio by Fruit Bats Prolongs Copulation Time
- DNA law changes in NZ
- Fibre to the Home Council meeting in Auckland
- Anti-gravity
- Tiger Poaching and the Kathmandu Conference- Kiwi Connection
- The broadband sitrep
- The Art of Photographing Crocodiles
- Defending science and reason
- Mackenzie Cowell's Fascination with Synthetic Biology
- Peter Gleick on peak water
- Autistic children and blood mercury levels
- Magnets attract, right?
- Learning to use your new prehensile tail...
- people can believe some very strange things...
- Mystery organism photo of the month
- Some updates
- The University co-author network
- A Conversation with Tim Berners-Lee
- Twelve
- Three kinds of knowledge about science and journalism
- Back from Darwin with some wildlife photos
- NASA Ares 1: Will Tuesday's test flight be its swan song?
- Interphone - is the mobile industry in for a nasty shock?
- Can Torture Ever Be Justified?
- Stairway from Heaven
- self-grooming in cows
- Internet browsing by jury members – a criminal offence?
- NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – October ‘09
- Attractive Option
- teaching old cows new tricks
- Needle Point
- Doubt not certainty
- Finding better words
- Sunday Spinelessness - lacewings
- [Open] Science Sunday – 25.10.09
- Here Comes Science
- Faster Than a Speeding Antibiotic…
- Forgetting older science
- No I don't have the LHC timetable
- What the chiropractor said
- Story of "Synthia" the (theoretical) human-made synthetic microbe
- two ends of the science spectrum
- Open access week
- Food label confusion
- Folate Friction
- New Zealand's robotic firefighter
- 4500 ways in 174 countries to send a 350 message
- Glimpses of a world without the Internet
- Virtual field trips
- Serious cash up for grabs in PM's science prizes
- Four degrees too far
- Science journalism—critical analysis, not debate
- Is a replacement for the dumped R&D tax credits on the cards?
- On the instinct in the cockroach
- GNS blogs: Earth system science in real-time
- The Galileo Lectures
- New Zealand’s RS&T priorities
- RSNZ Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing shortlist
- conspiracy theories & the electricity supply
- MfE groundwater report: "Propaganda" or misunderstood?
- Playing pong with cells
- Personal mobile phone data – nothing’s secret any more…
- Local skeptics meetups
- Telling porkies to Parliament (first reprise)
- Windows 7: It's good, it's what Vista might have been
- Lamenting loss of funerals
- Scratching open your brain in your sleep and other stories (Best American Science Writing 2009)
- Wind, water and sun are all we need
- Google's future scale computing
- SynBioWave: Google Wave extension for synthetic biology
- Textbook proposals
- Disgust or Anger?
- The cost of losing coral: no drop in the ocean
- Monopoles, Dipoles, Quadrupoles and the like
- Empathy’s origins
- Buddies, annoyances and depression
- Indiana: forced DNA samples
- seeing the world through blindsight
- …Keep out of the kitchen
- Marsden 2009-III: Last but not least….
- Lab Waste
- Gravitational Waves
- Metagenomics-finding organisms from their genomes
- Google Wave: Yet to prove its real usefulness
- 10% by 2010? Yeah Right!
- Calling for a Cambrian explosion of ideas
- Where's here? (Hearing with one ear.)
- The3is in Three
- it couldn't happen here. could it?
- Supercomputing the brain's secrets
- Scared of letting go?
- How to get a job in forensic science? Retrain
- The yin and yang of virtual water
- Galileo, Darwin and the new enlightenment
- The CRI co-author network
- New bird designed!
- Sidebar scientists
- swim with the sharks...
- tomorrow's young scientists, today
- Herald columnist's denial bothers readers
- New Zealand Broadband Infrastructure Deployment
- Origins of NZ skinks revealed
- Climate Cover-Up
- ACC and Sex
- Medical remedies-burden of proof lies with seller
- Open Science Sunday – 18.10.09
- Public perception and Synthetic Reality
- The physicist joke
- We essentially want to create a drug factory in your nose
- Stunning images from Wellcome Image Awards
- Forensic science applied to art
- Digital smiles
- Methods in Neuroscience
- blood-sucking vampire moths!
- BCA libels Simon Singh?
- Cooperation as a cornerstone of evolution
- The New Zealand skills deficit
- A victory for Simon Singh
- Guaranteeing broadband access
- Is Garth George capable of original thought?
- sensory perception in t.rex
- fossil poo and moa diets
- Big data, Big challenges
- More chemistry-bashing
- The Earth and Moon – from Mars
- Simon Singh Granted Permission to Appeal,
- Natural Health Expo(sed)?
- Human genomes
- Polar ice keeps melting - whichever way you look at it
- Hell – is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications
- Eureka - Times launches science magazine
- Australia's broadband plans explained
- Fomenting unhappy mischief…
- Spam Journalism #61
- Sales-fest or science?
- Southern right whale population on the rebound
- Take a giant step
- Why check an Expert’s credentials?
- Introducing a new blogger: Fisheye Perspective
- Bunker buster bomb in action
- Drug driving and impairment testing
- Large Hadron Collider activity
- Is agricultural trade liberalisation bad for the climate?
- There will be a short break- taking cameras to Australia
- Marsden 2009-II: So much to learn from synapses
- Why We Are Atheists
- Interview with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
- Monkeys exhibit the uncanny valley effect
- Moore's Law key to fibre's promise
- Everything's relative
- Monkey business, or is my uncle also my Dad?
- science or magical thinking?
- science or magical thinking?
- Lunar-cy? NASA's US$79 million intentional crash landings
- Polar ice keeps melting – at a faster and faster rate
- The Masters of Light
- Introducing a new blogger: Forensic Scientist
- belief vs acceptance
- Who owns the moon?
- Two more tauhou (silvereye) photos
- New Centre for Brain Research
- Plan B (not from outer space)
- How many Aucklanders does it take to file a patent?
- Books in prisons
- Deep time, deep water
- What synthetic biology can learn from programming languages
- ACC for FREE
- TV psychics: not in the real world, please
- BioEngineered personalized human bone grafts created from bone marrow stem cells
- stomata & plant immunity to bacterial infection
- the music of science
- The 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
- [Open] Science Sunday – 11.10.09
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Wellington earthquake in real time
- Ozone
- TVNZ psychic move: A 'new low' for the industry
- Science podcasts
- Top NZ entry for Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition 2009
- Get your sample scanned for free under electron microscope
- A Polymer analog of Hilbert's curve at the megabase scale
- Playing Chicken
- Convergence and confluence of data sharing efforts
- TVNZ's psychic step too far
- P addiction, overdose and eutrophication
- (i'll say it again) dose really does matter!
- Miscellaneous thoughts on physics research
- Endeavour Capital Blog
- Media 7 on experimental stem cell treatments
- Legitimate Use of Magnets in Therapies
- Small world pictures
- Doctors orders: NZ “must rapidly halve its greenhouse emissions”
- It’s all in the brain
- Bubble Sets: Revealing Set Relations with Isocontours over Existing Visualizations
- Claim Denied.
- No Relief
- Fab four: ways to meet the climate challenge
- Europeans reject two thirds of proposed health claims
- Pseudoephedrine to be prescription-only
- Marsden Fund 2009: When Family Trees get convoluted
- Marsden 2009-I: An eye on the birds and the bees
- why we have telomerase
- Approximately speaking
- Marsden 2009: A substantial increase in funding but success rate remains low
- $66 million in Marsden Fund grants - what was funded?
- 2009 Nobel Physics winners at Bell Labs in the 70s - charged couple devices
- Old Age Savings (Part 2)
- Old Age Savings (Part 1)
- Photos of blue-tongued skinks
- New Zealand nature documentaries
- Extraordinary exposition - Obama's case for science
- A beginner’s guide to the importance of Arctic sea ice
- Scientists need to be Entrepreneurs?
- please do not adjust your set...
- Is Business Intelligence too sexy?
- Nobel Prize in Physics 2009 and The Ghost of Bell Labs
- Battle of the bus ads
- IBM DNA Transistor: Towards the nanoscale DNA sequencer
- knuckle-walking - not an ancestral trait in humans
- Interview: 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Tragedy in the UK
- Nobel Prize: A Tribute to Curiosity Driven Basic Science
- Nine ways to stuff up a planet
- Recent tiger poaching story
- Data visualisation shows endless potential
- A tale of telomeres and telomerase
- A “weekend in Amsterdam” will take on a new meaning…
- White Tail Spiders
- The biosphere can't stand it
- Lack of Logical Career Paths...and PostDocs
- Environmental negotiations ??!!??
- Godless cosmology
- Links Roundup of the Week-2
- Stephen Fry's kakapo encounter
- Heart Hit
- Sirocco gives kakapo a bad name…
- What's your digital footprint?
- Do animals have a concepts of art?
- [Open] Science Sunday 4.10.09
- Google Wave In a Nutshell
- the 'missing link' disproved?
- Butterfly Phylogenetics
- What’s the worst that could happen?
- Evolution – The Story of Life
- Auckland Skeptics in the Pub
- Nano Pills
- An open letter to the Nobel Foundation to overhual the current system
- A Nobel Prize for BLAST?
- Stable Swine
- Spam Journalism #60
- The Advertorial
- The Ig Nobel Prizes: And the winner is…
- The Resurgent Elephant Ivory Black Market
- The Rutherford Innovation Fund
- Antarctic sea spiders
- Brief pause
- the fabric of history
- the fabric of history
- Teaching research
- Does eating sweets make us violent?
- Scientists call for overhaul of the Nobels
- New Zealand’s recent bibliometric productivity
- Stars, earth and water
- Sumatra earthquake aftermath
- Any scientists worthy of a Welly?
- Book review: Victorian Popularizers of Science
- How not to negotiate #1
- Dewhurst’s den
- Locked Away
- Vote Bellbird
- A step towards predicting earthquakes?
- The Open Laboratory - the best science blogging around
- Is food fortification good or bad?
- Long legged lovers are on the loose
- On electric fish, molecules and behaviour
- Samoan tsunami damage
-
September
- Robot powered by two AA batteries sets two world records
- Postcard from Bangkok
- Over My Dead Body
- New ways of farming?
- Peter Lawrence's Kafka tale of research grant funding
- Samoa's big quake
- Inaugural Lectures at the Med School (U of Auckland)
- a special kind of donation
- Where's the harm?
- NZ's increasing academic shortage
- Solutions to poaching?- how about ways to encourage it?
- thoughts on xenotransplantation
- All your favourite science blogs
- GNS - latest on the Samoa quake
- 2degrees?
- Humanity’s most important image
- What good is a genome anyway?
- Major earthquake in Samoa, 8.3
- Don't Panic
- I hate thunderstorms
- Environmental Issues Deserve Better Treatment by our Media
- The cellular phone book
- NZ’s largest science blog network goes live
- Time loves a hero
- Sustainability and ethics
- Scientists can't write?
- National Health (Board)
- Skeptical, not cynical
- Takapu Photos
- Takeoff to Scott Base
- plant growth responses to touch
- Australia’s fibre grand plan – an engineer’s view
- So we're aiming for 2 degrees - yeah right!
- The city and the cell
- Climate change policy myopia: the ETS agreement
- Stitchbird or Hihi Photo
- Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis
- Blending Google Chrome with Google Apps
- Audible books not so listenable
- Carter, the unstoppable text machine
- Sciblogging: they blinded me with science
- When explicit data sharing policies fall short
- On the virtues of having a lap
- Sciblogs
- Using science to go after movie pirates
- what's your favourite (transitional) fossil?
- Networks of inventors
- Optimism versus common-sense
- Climate engineering
- Climate compendium: important insights
- NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – September ‘09
- Skeptics hammer 1080 documentary
- Water cycle, meet media cycle
- Scientist busts a Cancer Quack
- Links Roundup of the Week-1
- Gardasil Post-licensure Study
- Nobody Home
- The naked emperor
- plants - much more than you expect
- A Question of Dying
- food & folate
- science blogging in new zealand
- Harriet’s Toolbox
- Something wicked this way comes
- A measure of science
- Dissolving marine life
- Self-interested, myopic hot-air
- Helicos' True Single Molecule Sequencing
- No Magic Bullet
- The biased leading the blind
- Guest blog - evaluating the New Zealand Science system
- Something funny for a Friday afternoon
- From the keyboards of scientists…
- Arctic takes a Turney for the worse
- The Blurred Boundary Between Science and Business
- The greenhouse effect
- Depressed? Anxious? Aren’t we all?
- Mendeley to CiteULike and other CiteULike enhancements
- Care For The Dying
- a rather strange decision
- Is it wise to ‘mow’ our kelp forests???
- Spam Journalism #59
- Introducing Code for Life
- Sydney's red haze
- Should we pay people to lose weight?
- Video Test Post
- Fishics
- Science Communication Conference 2009 Palmerston North 9-10 November
- Broadcasting Substandards
- One of the saddest encounters I had with a frog…
- Obama to UN: Let’s do it
- Careful What You Fish For…
- Collaboration vs. Competition
- science-based medicine vs the 'natural' kind
- Saving the planet with condoms
- Drug Driving
- Drug Dealing
- “We’re screwed” – New York tabloid bites climate bullet
- US should aim for 80% by 2020
- critical thinking 101: reading news stories on science
- All those strange physics symbols
- Deaf Awareness Week
- What cap and converge means with a realistic 2050 emissions target
- Get in the sack!
- Why do tigers get poached?
- 2nd Photo of Sirrocco the kakapo
- National’s nine ways to stuff up: Oram on climate policy in NZ
- Can Transforming Science Transform New Zealand?
- Kakapo- Photo of Sirrocco
- Climate change policy myopia
- malaria & sickle-cell anaemia
- Risky things
- Theistic evolution?
- Links I've enjoyed this last week...
- Cutting the landline - a progress report
- the usefulness of parachutes has not been scientifically tested
- Medical Innuendo
- Uppers and Downers
- Oxfam: poor countries need funds to adapt
- A cautionary word on the meaning of “evidence”
- Gluckman, Darwin and Medicine
- Bitemark evidence – another example of the need for a database
- The end of the week...
- Third
- Therapeutic Vaccines
- Rapid Diagnostics
- Charles Darwin – Art & science
- Scholarship physics questions
- Pesky reptiles confuse palaeontologists
- Big wind could wean China off coal
- 'warrior genes' & media fantasies
- Shrodinger's tobacco mosaic virus
- Geometric algebra
- Metaphysically speaking
- why do we worry so much about ageing?
- Kathmandu...on again
- Warrior genes and the disease of being a scientist
- Roadside drug testing; drug driving
- Project West Wind
- National snub to Labour on ETS: part 2 – the fallout
- National snubs Labour, buys Maori support for watered-down ETS
- Hubble pictures - better than Milford Sound?
- Look out!
- Evolution of human morality
- the lost city & life undersea
- 27th Australasian Winter Conference on Brain Research
- Brain Awareness Week
- Stern words in Beijing
- Macro photo- Centipede
- Science communication in New Zealand
- cut a long story short
- What has log of -1 to do with a blog?
- Nature's data-sharing issue
- Bird sex gene identified
- Astrologers Predict Planet!… Psych!
- Goff balks at the task
- Titanic days
- science can be fun: swearing as a response to pain
- “We’re sorry: you deserved so much better”
- More than a metre
- PowerbyProxi - Wireless Electricity?
- Physicsstop breakage
- New Hubble images
- Surly theism
- Ask not for whom the Bellamy tolls…
- Peer Review Survey 2009 - the system's worth keeping, but could use some work
- Complex numbers
- Chemistry for kids
- The philosophy wars
- more musings on human pheromones
- Pocket calculator
- Fog
- Reflexology quickie
- Name-dropping makes you obnoxious
- The travelling salesman problem and bacterial computers
- Down to the Wire
- I TOLD you you're all mutants
- Magnetic monopoles?
- Cows and...seaweed?
- The geoengineering debate
- Protected minke whales from unreported bycatch sold on Japanese markets
- molecular evolution & possible gene therapy
- Jellyfish, continued
- Pretty produce
- Peer review
- Bright future for books
- sherlock holmes & csi
- the scent of fear
- The Bayer Innovator Awards
- wait until you can see the whites of their eyes
- Pesky dishwasher
- On the eve of destruction
- PhD Comics gets it right, again
- Why "Chthoniid"?
- NIWA Wellington Science Fair
- Why is the sky blue?
- Nepal: warming in the high Himalaya
- Google Transit
- the power of the human mind
- The Electric Car and metrics
- The value of knowledge economies
- Photo- Male Orbweb Spider (VentralView)
-
August
- Personal space issues: now we know the 'where'
- xkcd: Newton and Leibniz
- hierarchies among our furry friends
- A123 Systems and the KillaCycle
- A123 Systems and the KillaCycle
- Blue sky
- Zoo tigers and the illegal trade in tiger parts
- Be a friend of Darwin on Facebook
- from the 'letters to the editor' - vaccines & ear infections
- A solemn warning on coral reefs
- meet ben
- Managing Multi-tasking
- Hot Competition
- The scientific method
- NZ PM John Key to be on Letterman
- Landing gear failure
- from chickens to dinosaurs?
- scientific laws
- Natural selection definitions and modes
- Gadgets, Games and Geeks 09: The Future of Innovation, Shatter, Weta and pizza
- AngelLink
- Wednesday Weirdness- more harvestmen photos
- What's happening in Geneva?
- Addendum to previous post
- Monday Strangeness- NZ Stout-legged Opilionid
- The (threat) challenge to science publishing
- Link taxonomic names on any website to the Encyclopedia of Life
- Technology Transfer at Univeristy of Virginia
- The Bigger the Morals, the Harder the Fall
- Macro Photo of Orbweb Spider (Nocturnal Shot)
- Origins of the tree of life
- Global warming warning
- If only...
- ViNES
- A rumination on macro photography
- Now Someone’s Talking Properly about what Ails NZ Science
- Finally the Truth about the so called “Unfortunate Experiment”
- Big Science
- Gamma-ray bursts get even more sci-fi
- More evidence that cockroaches may be the pinnacle of evolution
- Sunbed silliness
- Ruminations about Wildlife Photography
- A Tauhou for Tuesday :)
- Quantum Dot Inkjet Printing
- Quickly change firefox proxy settings with ubiquity
- From the Herald: Climate debate adrift on rising tide of lunacy
- WAKE UP SHEEPLE!*
- Biomimicry and AskNature
- PopSci's Future Of...
- New RST Strategy?
- The Clean Industrial Revolution
- New Zealand’s walking bats
- A Pukeko for Tuesday
- NZ: Feeding the World?
- A bird for Monday- Tauhou
- Vaccinate your kids, people!
- And a Lorikeet for Saturday :)
- Relatively Science Humour week: Day 5
- Measles Outbreak
- Resistance is useless...
- Relatively Science Humour week: Day 4
- 30 Songs
- Relatively Science Humour week: Day 3
- Wednesday's Tauhou
- Fuel from Algae
- Relatively Science Humour week: Day 2
- Today's Lorikeet Photo
- Tauhou (Silver-eye) Photo
- Laughter is the best medicine
- Science Communication
- Photo- Rainbow Lorikeet
-
July
- My mutant mitochondria and life on earth
- Vitamins and Exercise
- Science behind record breaking swims
- Supporting Simon Singh
- Energy Efficiency in Appliances
- Living Cell Technologies
- Is the Tour de France getting more clean?
- Lumiblades and their NZ link
- Is swine flu really all that bad?
- A positive from the Job Summit
- Nature Magazine’s feature on the moon landing
- A massive cheer for the moon landing
- A funny thing happened on the way back from the Moon
- The Exquisite Corpse of Science
- Innovation in NZ
- Cancer is Depressing
- Cosmic Rays, Clouds and Climate
- Bad experiment design
- June
- May
- April
- March
- February
- January
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December
- 2008
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2007
- December
- August
- July
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June
- REVIEWS: THE OFFICIAL FREEVIEW RECEIVERS
- THE WEBSTOCK SPECIAL
- (MANNED) MISSION TO MARS
- THE PROBLEM WITH "P"
- RISE OF THE ROBOTS
- THE NEWTON FACTOR
- SEEBY WOODHOUSE ON HIS $24.3 MILLION SALE
- PALM'S BIG FUMBLE?
- MOBILE VS WIMAX FOR 2.5GHz SPECTRUM
- THE VIEW FROM THE STREET
- THE VAST LONG TAIL
- A CRACK AT THE RECORD BOOKS
- SGT. PEPPER VS. FLOYD'S PIPER
- May
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