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June
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- A competition for Aussie science blogs
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- That Ben Goldacre fuss
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- Sunday Spinelessness - Protecting the katipo
- Sunday reading list (13 June 2010)
- Science, truth without certainty
- Don’t watch that, watch this!
- The bad news, and the good
- What is your relationship with your research notebook?
- Pollen from snot (not for reading at dinnertime…)
- evolution vs creationism: the 'discussion' continues
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- Does Your Environment Determine Your Behaviour?
- Dealing with “Anti-Science” Commenters on Science Blogs
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- It’s grim up North #2
- Gluckman: climate denial undermines all science
- What equation do I need?
- New Zealand’s productivity paradox: Part VI
- i get more mail - belief in evolution allows me to ignore my sins
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- The Korean 'net: not what you'd expect
- Pseudoscience and anti-science nonsense
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- WHO hits back at conflict of interest claims
- A plea for exploratory research
- Can Apple make video calling popular?
- About Paulo Freire
- Lots of flashing LEDs
- If some of us have Neanderthal genes, are Neanderthals us?
- Leaky Buildings – Part 2 – What we now know
- People talkin’ (open thread #1)
- Smattering of science in Queen's honours list
- A mighty wind
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- Science on New Zealand TV
- The Hole in Maternity (Updated)
- reflecting on teaching (& learning) about the nature of science
- Where the smart money is...
- Sunday Spinelesness - One for the arachnophobes?
- ANZICE Part 3: Southern Ocean - New Zealand Responses
- Merchants of Doubt
- Ghost riders in the shed
- Who if anyone got to the WHO?
- Wellington geeks/nerds: jooooooooiiiiiin uuuuuuus
- In honour of Mars500
- Hot science blogs
- Friday shorts: The Guardian wants to hear from you & laughing in the face of reality
- The Creativity Machine
- Alcohol: Effects on Teenage Brains and Correlations Between Availability and Violence
- To link or not to link: mainstream media and no links at all
- My white ice cycle
- How big is the oil spill, actually?
- acupuncture & adenosine
- Sexy science (or not)
- The World Science Festival, live on-line
- FTTH Conferences - a brilliant route to synergies
- Towards evolvable circuitry
- Public voting for Quark prizes now open
- 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science)
- What’s the world got in store (first reprise)
- New Ministry of Science and Innovation for New Zealand
- Dark say what now?
- Quarks Galore
- The world by supercomputer
- According to Brits, the top 100 inventions of all time are...
- May ’10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- iPad accessory frenzy in Adelaide
- To link or not to link: is that the question?
- An interview with Rebecca Cann of Mitochondrial Eve fame
- A miscellany: delinkification, engineer duels and email addresses
- Otago news: Essay and exam workshops (attn: lecturers & undergrads)
- Journalists create world’s first artificial news story!
- Earmuffs in Pre-school?
- iconography of evolution
- Scientists: "Naturally obsessed"
- Don’t trust Monckton!
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May
- Momentarily alarmed…
- Martin Raff on what is autism
- it's not a miracle
- All guns blazing
- This is scary!
- What actually went wrong on Deepwater Horizon?
- The quantum mechanics of gadgets
- Theological intrusions into science
- Whose lie is it anyway? Easterbrook caught red-handed
- Sunday reading - mental time warps, treating OCD, bio banking, All Whites beat Serbia
- Sunday Spinelessness - The Wasp That Did For Darwin's Faith?
- Bending light
- Professors, lost souls with great oratory power?
- It’s as simple as that
- I remember because my DNA was methylated
- Why you need to proof read
- Living up to our name
- female genital mutilation - hideous whichever way you look at it
- The new Rutherford Discovery Fellowships
- God, stop ‘playing science’
- I'm back!
- BioFuel Cell Batteries May Power Future Implanted Devices
- Cooling-gate: the 100 years of warming Easterbrook wants you to ignore
- Book sales, frumpy readers, and mental rotation of book titles
- How oil affects birds' feathers
- "The value of Big Science" - Brian Cox
- In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers
- Vote for the Quarks (science blogging awards)
- slightly more than half of everything i am is thanks to you (thanks, mum)
- Why Don’t We Go To Church?
- Science communication shorts
- The first mathematical model for cow behaviour (I kid you not)
- on craig venter & his new life form
- Does the future affect the present?
- Cooling-gate: Easterbrook defends the indefensible
- The birds and the bees... and the trees?
- Will Wakefield's ban quell anti-vax denialism?
- Brevia - Wakefield saga continues... struck off
- eWeather in NZ
- ANZICE Part 2: Antarctic Climate Drivers
- Reynolds understood the power of the web
- CSI-Silurian: The biological roots of landforms
- Sneaky scientists
- Synthetic genome in living cell round-up: the good, the bad and the ugly
- sequencing the neandertal genome
- Offshore energy for export
- TEDtalk: Closing in on synthetic life
- Sunday Spinelessness - Attack of the Killer Sponge!
- Artificial life in three steps (infographic)
- Flu Chaos
- Going Naked
- Cooling-gate! Easterbrook fakes his figures, hides the incline
- Greasy Heart(land)
- Is Your Boss A Better Liar Than You? Probably, Yes
- How big is Venter's synthetic breakthrough?
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- Cloud seeding you can bank on
- Synthetic life arrives
- The heart of opposition to climate science
- Will mining vanquish our rare frogs?
- Senate Report: don't do NBN
- Mt St. Helens: 30 years later
- flashes in the eye
- What spin would you like with that?
- let it grow, let it grow...
- The thing we need to fix is ourselves
- A step backwards for unmetered broadband
- Leaky Buildings – Part 1 – How did we get here.
- Last chance – almost!
- Seoul, Singapore anybody?
- Physics Stop 2010-05-19 20:10:53
- What’s worse – sugar or fat?
- Cunning radiocarbon and dating volcanic eruptions
- The search for hidden dimensions
- NZ scientists fire up $3.4 million mass spectrometer
- What’s that about global cooling?
- When is a gene really an allele?
- Interphone in infographics
- A very different form of mining...
- Open Laboratory Project
- Fools rush in…
- Career motivations (video)
- Interphone: How not to communicate science
- milk & health: there aren't always two (equal) sides to a story
- Bum notes from the Brill building (and a question for the minister)
- World Heritage Status: Added protection, or unintended destruction?
- Are you threatened by clarity?
- Intelligent Design Flaws: The Evidence for Natural Selection in Our DNA
- How obvious is technology?
- No Rain in the Amazon
- helping students engage with maths & physics
- Monday Morning Macro- Orbweb spider
- Gulf spill: Containing the slick
- Supporting good science communication
- Epigenetics, growing old and identical twins becoming unique
- What happens when camel meets car
- BP's big underwater headache...
- knowledge vs certainty
- Sunday Spinelessness - You don't know the trouble you're in
- Can we be Chemical-free?
- Sunday reading list
- Doug digs denial
- Testing common ancestry to all modern-day life
- Art and science - a good pairing?
- Canadian research networks
- What are the limits of non-stop flight?
- Woman smuggles tiger penis into NZ
- Replying to the editor, in sign
- We don’t know!
- Crazy science letter of the week part 8
- What becomes of the broken Hartwell?
- Wishart only wishes…
- Offshore wind beats oil
- Have your say on the development of a Natural Health Products Bill
- ANZICE Part 1: An Overview
- Waste of science
- Cows up, sheep down
- Stunning Physics
- Illusory balls
- Science in the budget: NZ vs Aussie
- Canadian house swallowed by sarlacc
- why 'natural supplements' need regulation
- Smart agents for smart grids: an application of game theory
- New Zealand garden bird survey 2010
- Monckton and Shimkus get silly together
- Another R&D stimulation package leaves out the smaller players?
- System Failure
- Career pathways for NZ science Ph.D. students
- Government goes to dark side for science
- Science Fiction – Inspirational or Setting Unreal Expectations?
- You steal – you’re marked! Smearing DNA on your valuable items
- A look at some older insect photos
- Timber treatment: what are the best options?
- Eaarth
- BP's big plug - what the plan was...
- Vodafone and the UFB project?
- what science has given us
- Time to send a robot to the moon
- Old ship log books dusted off for whale conservation
- Revkin on science and the media
- Cloning extinct species #2: Should we bother?
- Turning to tiger news for a bit
- The Dawkins Delusions
- An open letter to climate sceptics
- New Zealand’s productivity paradox: Part V
- Gore makes a connection
- Sunday Spinelessness - Jump!
- Bacon With Your Vaccine?
- putting therapeutic touch to the test
- Intermittent but reliable
- In honour of Friday drinkies
- Crazy science letter of the week part 7
- Remote Sensing of the Ionosphere: Part 1
- XT failure: Telecom wasn't ready for show time
- sensing nonsense
- Biotech students get creative with video
- Omegamation: fish oil is good for you
- Dig-in Or Adapt: The Effect of Political Views on Changing One’s Mind
- Climate change and the integrity of science
- Misuse of political office: science under attack
- Visualising UK election scenarios
- More on the Tasmanian $1 per Gb NBN offer
- Germs, germs, everywhere (but what is one to think?)
- Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean
- Ozone hole 25 years on - signs of recovery?
- Down to the sea
- More science in literature done right
- Mammoth hemoglobin back from the dead
- Wet security attack
- Memorialising my own folly
- Crazy science letter of the week part 6
- death shapes us all
- Chimps carry corpses
- Life in the Hothouse
- The Mexican Gulf oil spill in infographics
- The statistics of the ultimate TED talk
- Is New Zealand prepared for a major oil spill?
- Offline
- Ah, I see you have the Wishart that goes “ping”
- 25 Mbps, Zero cost per month?
- academic language & learning about science
- When is an experiment a 'bungled' experiment?
- Broadcast education system takes out Imagine Cup
- Review of the New Zealand IP system released
- Natural selection or domestication?
- Time of the season
- Sunday Spinelessness - A beach spider
- 3DTV - not quite ready for showtime
- April ‘10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
- Homeopath on public forum: treating babies with acute illnesses
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April
- Cloning extinct species #1: A how-to guide
- DNA v child trafficking
- I Know What I Mean but Only See How You Act
- A computer isn't a replacement for your brain
- Science walks into a bar
- Thinking of our grandchildren
- All passengers: please remember your space insurance
- Today's Crocodile Photo
- Stephen Hawking on aliens part 1
- Prosperity without growth
- Your thoughts on the future of bioinformatics in New Zealand
- theorists of the lost ark
- Making sense of those numbers
- It's an old, old earth
- Science, values and ethics
- Feel floes (gone by 2016)
- Farewell forever floppy disk
- No Help At All
- Theory of Evolution isn't a religion- it's science
- National research collaborative services, open discussion
- Clarity from the Gisborne Herald on climate science
- There’s nothing quite as sexy as fossil fuels
- Drought, kiwi and ecological dominoes
- Knowing your invasive pests
- Swine flu one year on - Q&A with scientists
- The Anachronism (full-length short film)
- The pulse-jet powered kayak
- think before you write (or at least, before you hand it in)
- A quarter of a thousand
- Sugar, You Ain't So Sweet
- Crazy science letter of the week part 5
- Scientific collaboration within Australasian cities
- Leaked! – NZ talks at Heartland crankfest
- Pharmacists to say that homeopathy does not work?
- Sunday Spinelessness - The end of Drosophila melanogaster?
- chemo vs cancer, science vs disease
- America's plan to nuke the east
- Another exponential decay example
- Scientists' other lives
- Bad Jab? (UPDATED)
- Klein in Bolivia: global democracy is the way forward
- Garth George: wrong, wrong, 2.75 million times wrong.
- Sea Biscuits: Not Just For Carrying Tobey Maguire Around
- In the land of Gray (and pink)
- Climate scientist sues newspaper for false reporting
- Crazy science letter of the week part 4
- A feathered friend for Friday
- Energy creep...more energy efficient homes don't necessarily mean people use less energy
- New Zealand’s productivity paradox: Part IV
- Climategate, Lord Monckton and Monty Python
- Booze Scoop
- View the sun using the cross image fader
- First images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
- Kiwis' killer heart attack record
- Rare giant gecko turns up (dead) in mainland sanctuary
- Garth goes off the deep end
- Introducing a new blog: The Science of Architecture
- Should we be reducing building insulation to improve energy efficiency?
- what evolution is
- Can you believe this guy?
- Copenhagen Accord puts world on pathway to 3ºC
- Finding new 9/11 victims
- Herald sucked in by bogus fuel technology?
- Guinea pigs are the answer for the Congo
- Gluckman: The New Zealand Science System – into a brave new world
- Climate change deniers wallets threatened
- Conference in Bolivia: who pays the price of change?
- Climategate summed up
- 10:10NZ campaign launches
- The beleagured grey duck
- Wellcome diversions
- why don't students study plants?
- UPDATED: The game console as a living room hub?
- Climategate's final act ignored by NZ media
- Eight arms to hold your camera
- Some cardboard pictures
- Beatin’ the heat
- Introducing a new blog: The Bright Ideas Challenge
- Freaky bioluminescent creatures from the deep on TED.com
- Cardboard City
- Smokestack lightning
- Thinking about Captive Breeding
- Vitamin Victims?
- Relative Risk Averse
- Crazy science letter of the week part 3
- New Zealand's agri-food future under threat?
- Confusion reigns over multi-vitamins and breast cancer
- iPads for the disabled
- Superstition – inevitable?
- 10 quirky science tricks for parties
- Grounded - mapping the impact of the ash cloud
- what science is
- [Open] Science Sunday – 18.04.10
- Sunday Spinelessness - kleptomaniac octopuses and other amazing mollsucs
- Candy for Adults
- Bloggers, journalists, same difference?
- Ash fall-out through the ages
- Monckton is a crock (part two)
- Local science TV show coming to Freeview platform
- Eco-pragmatists need stiffer spines
- Licensed to Kill
- No such thing as a free lunch?
- what's in a name
- Libel Reform campaign continues
- Empty skies over Britain - Guardian infographic
- 2001: A sciblogs odyssey
- An eyeful of Eyjafjallajökull: no cooling threat (yet)
- On that volcanic ash and airline flights
- What volcanic ash does to jet engines
- Can Our Fantasy Life Affect Our Perceptions of Real Life?
- Eruption in Iceland
- Discontent bubbling to the surface in Canterbury
- iPlumbing?
- RIP Antony Flew
- Monckton goes BP in Bonn
- British Chiropractors' Association drops case against Simon Singh
- Earthquake warning systems (and twitterers)
- Two Birds, One Stone
- The Big C - visualising the killer disease's impact
- 1080 poison and waterways
- Officially a fake scandal from science perspective
- Dangerous science denial
- CRU cleared of scientific malpractice – so much for “climategate”
- The iPad: a cat toy?
- The science or the people who are dodgy?
- Hook, line and stinker
- Physics is everywhere
- i get mail...
- Play your genes
- Why science denial is so very dangerous
- Introducing a new series: Horton's Index
- A plastic ocean
- Categories of “drunk”
- Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease: too good a match for the immune system
- A soupcon of shameless self-sales
- Land use hydrology paradox in Central Texas
- Drinking and driving - how much is too much?
- When Galaxies Collide... and directors quote-mine
- Sam Morgan on GM crops, conservation and broadband
- Arresting comedy
- Australian Senate Submission on Video overlay technology for NBN
- In the bunker: entrepreneurs wage war on carbon
- Collisions at the LHC
- Cutting out the radio host from radio
- more bad stats & other stories
- Get your ACT(A) together
- Monckton is a crock
- NZ S&T post-doctoral fellowships: A key part of New Zealand’s talent pipeline
- Wake of the flood
- A more transparent approach
- Shaky forensic ground in Oz
- Sunday Spinelessness - Hover-flies
- PublicACTA declaration signed
- Krugman on climate economics: uncertainty makes the case for action stronger
- Fit To Drive
- Miromiro or NZ tomtit photos
- How we behave when we’re drunk
- Drinking, driving and Maltese(rs)
- BBC: The Cell – The Hidden Kingdom (6/6)
- For all fans of manga: the power of science
- Putting the F back in ACT
- World Homeopathy Awareness
- Thoughts on Hunter’s statement on Science, Climate Change and Integrity
- nature by numbers
- science embargoes & early releases - an update on the 'new hominin' story
- Crazy science letter of the week part 2
- Kyrgyzstan trips over utility price hikes
- Orbital debris, the ISS, moon and sun
- Organ Recitals
- live from the nz international biology olympiad training camp
- New species of giant lizard “discovered” in the Phillipines
- National Library of New Zealand Web Harvest 2010
- iPad hands-on: Lives up to expectations, game changer for media
- A walk on the supply side
- Euro geoscience conference enters the blogosphere
- A space nerd’s Easter
- CNN in NZ: Tackling belching cows
- Well, I’ll be… blowed
- Arctic sea ice maximum reached, melt starts
- Crazy science letter of the week - part 1
- GRA inaugural meeting shows strong will to succeed
- Science, Climate Change and Integrity
- changes in the early oceans - & their impact on the evolution of animals
- HydroEtymology: Aquifer, infer
- While we weren’t looking…
- Spam Journalism #72
- Wikipedia project available for a good home
- Our lamb carbon footprint - most of it is down on the farm
- Alliances of pharmacists & GPs; opportunities to pressure for removal of useless "remedies"?
- Now starring in movies: human genes
- Geological lessons from Easter and Passover
- Getting to the truth – gradually
- On the perils of becoming a dinosaur
- another missing link...
- more on bone-eating snotworms - the fossil years
- Easter eggs and science
- Soyuz rocket blast-off
- Who will rule the waves?
- The iPad: a device to consume, not produce
- Sunday Spinelessness - A Nobel Prize Winning Insect
- Speed Kills?
- the costs of transpiration
- the costs of transpiration
- Blogimmuniqué: commenting policies and the other room concept
- Winter 2010: cold in places, exceptionally hot in others
- Herald ditches environment section
- Buying denial: Koch caught in the act
- Breaking news: Singh wins appeal in chiropractic case
- Google threatens to pull out of Australia
- Songbird genome published
- March ‘10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- Results of the mobile phone experiment
- best billboard ever?
- Chocolate rabbits and disorderly molecules
- Dogged Pearce still hounding Jones
- LHC-based Doomsday alternatives, e-book publishing and problems in scientific publishing
- Like I Needed Another Reason To Lose Weight
- Esquire on Morano: inside the denial machine
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March
- Lovelock, stock and barrel
- Televised climate debate at its worst
- Goodbye old technology and hello new
- Responding to errors in the Press
- Jones and CRU exonerated by parliamentary inquiry
- engaging students in science through interactive learning
- Climate scientist Phil Jones exonerated
- Large Hadron Collider press conference
- Global Warring
- Overheard in Christchurch
- New Zealand’s productivity paradox: Part III
- The origins of science?
- Citizen oversight of water abolished in Canterbury
- Myriad Genetics patent of BRCA (breast cancer) genes denied
- Things that don't like water
- LHC ready to rumble . . .
- 'Blue Gold' - Water doco that tugs the anti-capitalism strings
- The rickety bandwagon of climate change denial
- Government still wants profitable science
- It’s grim up North (but beautiful too)
- GM ruling quashed in Court of Appeal - now what?
- a new hominin from siberia?
- humour with a serious message - the vaccine/autism 'debate'
- "And ice, mast-high, came floating by..."
- Introducing a new series: HydroEtymology
- Are religious scientists worried about their brethren?
- The acid cheeseburger experiment
- Aww, crap.
- Sunday Spinlessness - The Other Damsel
- IPCC’s Pachauri fights back
- Greenland ice melt spreads northwest
- A compelling case for animal testing
- Defending the indefensible: Guardian responds to RC critics
- Celebrating Ohl Day
- Congratulations C.K. Stead!
- Bioinformatics S.O.C., Not Exactly Rocket Science moves, pop science book writing
- Friday picture: molecular modelling of the cytoplasm
- Does a forty thousand year old finger point to another human species?
- Does a forty thousand year old finger point to another human species?
- Amazongate closes on Sunday Times: Simon Lewis fights back
- What goes up... must come down
- Bacteria build pyramids
- hey hey it's friday - and the darwin awards are out :-)
- Of birds, dinosaurs and new fossil discoveries
- The climate change denial industry
- Battle of the bottle
- Starving to Death
- It's been a very sciencey few days
- Dealing in doubt: 20 years of attacks on climate science
- TED.com this week: science and morality, and the open data project
- Seducing Scientists into Science Communication
- Can science answer moral questions?
- Writing a popular science book; links and writers' warnings
- Obamacare Myths
- Mind games for physicists
- Talk in the town
- You can change the ideas, but not the data
- Is superconductivity the wrong science for New Zealand?
- Australian Brolga Photos
- The sound of a tree singing the blues
- Business Roundtable lies about climate, according to The Economist
- Lawrence Krauss – Science, Non-Science and Nonsense – From Government to the Classroom
- how not to do science: the scole experiment
- Prince or pauper? Tell Nature what you earn
- What makes sea level rise uneven
- Microbe underpins $10 million govt clean tech investment
- Trading water for democracy in Canterbury
- Solar
- Judge a crime online
- Internet news: Google redirects Chinese users to Hong Kong site
- Crab Spider Photos
- Recycled error in Canterbury's freshwater supply
- Periodic Table of of science blogs
- Carterist science meets its Cartergate
- International teamwork: Anthony Doesburg on collaborations
- The invisibility cloak
- Epigenetics, a confused muddle in the media
- High temperature superconductors and cars - it doesn't get any cooler (seriously)
- Hopeful World Water Day!
- Creationism, climate change and scientific denialism
- Bioinformatics blog carnival
- Fabulous bad weather
- Sunday Spinlessness - Waste Not
- Remembering a New Zealand science icon
- New comment system for Hot Topic
- Sir Ian Axford's legacy - the Giotto probe
- Requiem for a Species
- Water in action: Afghan debris flow
- Brain day, bigger, longer, uncut
- Vampire forensics and how we deal with the dead
- Who covers science in the New Zealand media?
- Energy storage by mimicking photosynthesis
- belief & knowledge - a plea about language
- New internet meme: google suggestions for scientists
- This perfect storm of calamities…
- Mobile phone physics
- Voluntary efforts to control farm pollution failing
- Tumultuous week on NZ's water front
- Great balls of… air
- Open Letter from U.S. Scientists on the IPCC
- Out of Control
- The man who loved beer: Skeptics in the pub talk next week
- Illustrating Carl Zimmer's Readers
- Carl Zimmer's Science Reader Survey
- The dangerous sea
- Sources for medical information for non-medics and non-scientists
- WOMAD passes the Crikey Creek test
- New Zealand’s productivity paradox: Part II
- New Zealand’s productivity paradox: Part I
- Medical DIY...
- New Aussie state of the climate snapshot: NZ needs one too
- Lawrence Krauss on a bad day
- how biology teachers can respond to intelligent design
- Too much attentiveness leads to inattentiveness
- Happy St Patrick's Day!
- Eye colour inheritance update #1
- ET home phone
- Improving on-farm water management: Lessons from California
- Are science and religion compatible?
- Lenski and 50,000 generations of E. coli
- Shoehorning
- Nothing to see here
- overrun with creepy-crawlies? maybe not...
- Dawkins and Aldrin down, Rees to come
- El Nino brings drought to Venezeula, and exposes a flooded town
- Incentives
- My kind of blog
- Blood from babies: filling the DNA databases
- Inaccurate reporting of scientific evidence perpetuates myths
- A Journey to the Ice
- Why water is so weird
- Swiftboating science
- how do we teach students to question what we say?
- Michael Mann fights back
- Happy pi day!
- Sunday Spinelessness - Extreme Close-up
- Simon Singh, leaving job to deal with chiropractic legal case
- World water crisis: Myth or reality?
- Copper Conducting Considerable Current
- You know your 'type'? It's stress dependent...
- cross-species hanky-panky
- Bubble-shaped, water-filtering skyscraper
- Hippo surfs flood waters to freedom
- Chris Mooney interviews Michael Mann on “climategate”
- what makes students stick at science?
- Brain Awareness Week - merging the two cultures?
- Pacific Fibre undersea cable connection
- Carterist “science”: Bob’s self-plagiarism, misrepresentation and misquotations
- Young scientists in the limelight at Realise the Dream Awards Dinner
- High speed international connection? Yes, please
- Australian Fig Bird Photos
- The LHC ticks onwards
- Fight back, scientists urged
- The evolution of gratitude
- Is California the future of Canterbury?
- Science bloggers talk teaching
- Monbiot: All out war on science
- Upcoming popular lectures by Professor Lawrence Krauss
- Talking about talking about science
- Synchronised flushing during hockey final
- Fallstreak cloud
- Ugandan rains bury villagers
- The Lomborg Deception
- New Zealand’s million dollar scientists
- Great photo of the Solar Corona
- For success, create the conditions for creativity?
- How much do you tell the kids?
- $1 million given out in PM's science prizes
- Underwater CSI: I feel a spin-off coming..
- Dennis Meadows on development instead of growth
- writing that essay
- BBC: The Cell – The Hidden Kingdom (5/6)
- Molecular biology in museums
- What conservationists really want on the whaling front?
- System to monitor grape vine water status wins water start-up prize
- Merchants of doubt: Oreskes on the history of climate denial
- Why Pharmac Does Not Always Work
- Profit and Loss
- An horrific case of natural health treatment of cancer
- Kenyan rains wash away elephant research
- Green opportunities far outweigh the costs
- Heat transfer within edible objects
- Why GeoNet rocks my world
- 137 years of Popular Science back issues, free
- a blog for talking teaching
- Six-eyed spiders
- Far North drought brings Kaitaia water restrictions
- Clear science communication
- Oh yeah...
- Sunday Spinelessness - Survivor
- Sunday reading links: More on Ida, YouTube captions (again), newspaper horders, books on the iPad, swine flu
- It's not us or the cows
- US trial for Aquaflow technology
- the age of mammals
- SciHistorian Oreskes on 'Merchants of Doubt'
- Responses to the CRI Taskforce
- Chiropractic libel suit snagged by its own ruling body?
- The Gap into Conflict
- Siberian seabed methane: first numbers
- the bca vs simon singh
- Sciblogs going gangbusters after five months
- Tectonic Plates and Angular Momentum
- Institute of Physics in hot seat
- Seeing Further
- An exhortation to Research Bloggers
- New Zealand, a tsunami breakwater for Australia, teenage brains and other tales
- I’m Certain That I Can Certainly be Wrong or Confidence and Memory, Is one a Good Measure of the Other?
- A few noteworthy happenings
- CRI Taskforce: Time for "big picture" thinking in science
- Pilots on the pop
- Fundamental Constants and the problem of gravity
- Do our wildlife laws need reviewing?
- Radio is best medium for science in NZ
- The inheritance of face recognition (should you blame your parents if you can't recognise faces?)
- Why was CNN in Palmerston North? Methane!
- A blast from the past
- Climate science for you and me
- February ‘10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- Enabling deaf people to text emergency calls to 111
- Charity payments for drug cases
- evolution supressed in new zealand? i think not
- GM ryegrass - at least 7 years away from release
- Intelligence, Monogamy and Journalistic Licence
- How to get sober quicker
- Science research works
- CRU’s Jones on the stand: Pearce offers opinion as news
- Save the snot eels!
- Richard Dawkins – wrong again!
- Sorry seems to be the hardest word
- Bluff oysters bouncing back
- BBC: The Cell – The Hidden Kingdom (4/6)
- Just what did Rutherford get up to?
- Al Gore going strong
- Magnitude vs. intensity; Chile vs. Haiti
- Global Sustainability – A Nobel Cause
- Angels with fat tails
- Freedom of information and responsibility
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February
- Newsflash! Advertisers Lie!
- Hair, science and crims
- Book review: The Open Laboratory: The Best Science Writing on Blogs 2009
- Riders on the Storm
- today's big earthquake in chile
- Tsunami - if the big one hit
- Sunday Spinelessness - Arachnophobia
- [Open] Science Sunday – 28.2.10
- Weekend reading: dealing with noise
- This game looks familiar
- Nucleotide diversity - what two new African genomes mean
- Feb round-up
- Ethicis in physics
- Incredible infographic: the evidence for health supplements
- Anti-science lies being exposed – slowly
- I'm a Research Blogging Awards finalist!
- Advertising campaigns: homeopathy or a sceptical series?
- Best research blogs: get ready for voting; well done Aimee and David
- Congratulations Fellow Sciblings
- You have to be in to win...
- On the sequencing of the pea aphid genome
- FTTH, emerging from holiday lull
- Back at the ranch
- Getting up to speed with sound localisation
- BBC: The Cell – The Hidden Kingdom (3/6)
- Tyrannosaurus Sex: Dino Sex Organs
- Appraisal doesn't equal Evaluation
- A beeping good idea for low-cost communication
- Post-embargo publication delays: be gone
- The role of ecologists in a changing world
- Deniers distort Phil Jones
- Health Cheque
- the oversized naughty bits of female spotted hyenas
- Atheist bus campaign
- Faith schools
- Undiluted humour: If Homeopathy Beats Science
- New Zealand Pharmacy Ethics in Relation to Homeopathy in the Wake of Homeopathy Report
- Denialism’s allies: nasty work in Australia
- What's so dangerous about high voltage?
- Technology's Holy Trinity: Sex, bombs and burgers
- Homeopathy check-up: Not in the health system, disclaimers on labels
- Methane rise continues
- New Scientist's Janine Young on Kiwi FM
- Network failures - working out the compensation
- Centrifugal carrot
- New Zealand has bigots too
- Burglary science
- Lab lit: for bookworms who like the science to be plausible
- Would you like something scanned with an electron microscope?
- Where the NY Times Editorial on Tigers Goes Wrong
- The Listener joins the attack
- Belief and social identity
- [Open] Science Sunday – 21.2.10
- how i became a science teacher
- $60 a time
- Sunday Spinelessness - Animals that don't move
- Economist says climate science deserves praise
- Time for a break…
- Etiquette for the office global warming denier
- Dem pesky birds
- BBC: The Cell – The Hidden Kingdom (2/6)
- RNZ woes - what does it mean for science coverage?
- The wrong kind of question
- La-la Land again: Jim Hopkins gets it wrong
- CRI bibliometric performance: Part III
- Has Andrew Wakefield resigned from Thoughtful House? (Updated)
- A course for all degrees: PHIL 105, Critical Thinking
- Geopolitics and science activity: 30 years' worth
- A visitor from La-la Land: Garth George gets it wrong (again)
- Pearced to the heart: Fred gets it wrong
- How does a physicist think?
- NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – February ‘10
- BioScience in NZ: some statsy goodness Pt II
- DNA, Peter Gill and the CSI Effect
- Tait Electronics
- Sir Alec Jeffreys on DNA fingerprinting
- 20 years of DNA forensics in New Zealand
- meta-analyses - testing relationships
- an update on facilitated communication
- Tracking disease and human migration through genetics
- Facilitated Communication Case Fails to Deliver
- I hate maths...
- Wildlife Economics: Modelling Reality
- Climate change confusion – a conspiracy of sorts
- Tipping and other points
- BioScience in NZ: some statsy goodness Pt I
- The Beagle Missed a Trick
- WARNING! People might find us out!
- Technology wins again...
- Herpetologist & Conservationist John Thorbjarnarson has died
- Is genetic engineering just like breeding?
- Greed to Green
- Vandalizing bookstores and censoring Books!
- Open [Science] Sunday – 14.2.10
- Sunday Spinelessness - robber fly
- Happy (Geeky) Valentine's Day
- armed and dangerous...
- Professor, denied tenure, shoots colleagues
- Another Wakefield paper pulled?
- Preconceptual science, the dismissal-ness of it all
- IPCC’s future: babies, bathwater, or a new bath?
- Are some scientists just taking the cis out of genetic engineering? Pt II
- Charles Darwin and the Origin of Spouses
- Forensic science: validation and incompetence
- Google's fibre play - the key to NZ internet woes?
- happy darwin day!
- Key speech highlights high-tech manufacturing
- One for the kids
- Lactose Intolerant
- Positive encouragement for vaccination
- breadth vs depth
- Get your climate change science on the run
- Does my teaching work?
- www.FSRL.co.nz/blog – new blog location
- Veneer to the rescue!
- Are some scientists just taking the cis out of genetic engineering? Pt I
- Special edition of Biochemist E-volution: Science and the Media on-line free
- Egg/face interface for Hide and the climate cranks
- Extinction Vortex of DOOM
- BBC: The Cell - The Hidden Kingdom (1/6)
- Ed Rubel: The 21st century, a new era for hearing habilitation
- DNA evidence causes case to be dropped
- Cocaine on money, drug traces on banknotes
- Science articles some of NYT's most emailed
- The annotated Rodney Hide: treating parliament with contempt
- Rubella, not a benign disease if experienced during early pregnancy
- Spur Winged Plover Photo
- Phitek Systems
- Dynamic equilibrium
- CRI bibliometric performance: Part II
- Can science solve all problems?
- Killer Herbs
- FTTH (Fibre to the Home), what's happening?
- Sunday Times opens another gate
- but it does no harm...
- Community based marine management in practice – the West Coast example
- Spinning exoneration of Dr. Michael Mann Into “Whitewash”
- the power of the cuttlefish
- Treadgold and the NZ CSC: dogging a fled horse
- Drink up! Beer benefits bones...
- Where the money is
- Kiwi superconductivity industry overcomes resistance
- Self-exposure – a journalist out of depth
- the 8-glasses-a-day myth
- …Another Man’s Poison.
- Open [Education] Sunday – 07.02.10
- Sunday Spinelessness - now with 150% more links
- Locked In
- Show Me the Technology
- Dominion Post editorial as shaky as Herald’s
- How to Become a Superhero - Pt I
- Spot the “sceptic”
- what's your 'risk intelligence quotient'?
- Two is a big number
- Weka Photos
- Living with robots - don't panic
- A photographer’s dream
- Eureka's top 30 blog; vote sciblogs.co.nz for top 100
- Did the Moa's ancestor fly to New Zealand?
- Hydrogels or, how to replace petroleum-based plastics
- The rise and rise of the science journal
- Monckton in Australia: Picnic at Hanging Sock
- Get in line – who is the odd one out?
- Too Little, Too Late
- Stunning science imagery Pt I
- why dogs live shorter lives
- Herald censures IPCC on flimsy grounds
- Interesting but useless fact
- Wildlife Economics: The Data Problem
- Rakon
- Lancet formally retracts Wakesfield paper
- Wildlife forensics & the UN: fighting illegal fishing
- Police resources; Mt Eden taxi driver murder
- Cool science
- The world still needs Wikileaks
- Prove your wordpower
- The Rising Sea
- Summer of Stats part 9 - Down and up on the farm
- Wildlife forensics & the UN: fighting illegal fishing
- grumpiness is best?
- Australian Lapwing Photos
- Science in danger of being diluted in marine reserve decisions
- I want one of these!
- De Beers and Doctors
- A New Year's Resolution
- Remember your units
- The autism and vaccine debate
- Final chapter in the MMR-autism scandal
- Summer of stats part 8 - Being happy helping out
- Blogimmuniqué, 1st Feb 2010
- The complicated genetics of human eye colour inheritance
- The ISSS used for teaching
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January
- The rort that still is mobile data roaming
- Miliband: denialism profoundly dangerous
- of rain and rotifers
- Morsel combat: the Listener on genetic modification
- Spam Journalism #68
- [Open] Science Sunday – 31.1.10
- Sunday Spinelessness - Motherly Devotion
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: $10B towards vaccines
- Overdosing on water
- Sciblogs featured in the Taranaki Daily News
- Ecuadorian Amazonians see Avatar (in 3-D)
- New dimensions in earth science uncovered by NZ blogger
- Light My Room
- Hansen: it can be cold in a warming world.
- Convergent evolution unites bats and dolphins
- avatar
- US to NZ: Get real about GM crops
- Animal babies, long snouts
- What lightning does to your television
- Who hid the Higgs?
- Ideological infections
- The nasty job of identifying victims of mass disaster
- Monckton, “high priest of climate sceptics”, tells lies on TV NZ
- Two Tiers
- Wildlife Economics: Where to start?
- Mass overdose planned
- The iPad Revealed (Updated)
- Wild weather in Waikato
- If I was a running shoe manufacturer, I would be worried...
- The iPad, Apple's new tablet and the textbook / reference market
- The iPad - everything it was tipped to be
- Apple's iPad unveiled
- Mobile outages symbolic of Telecom's malaise
- Singing for science
- Say goodbye to the drill...
- What would we do when the aliens land?
- UK Sunday Times’ sloppy journalism attacks IPCC
- Wildlife Economics: An Ecologist's View
- Blog post about blog posts with comments about comments
- Car pool, string theory and human genetic history
- Strange Mercy
- Popularity does not mean effectiveness or sensibility
- Meth driving
- Will Agresearch's Court of Appeal bid pay off?
- A little bit of fun: how to (mathematically) park your car
- Carnival of Evolution and Research Blogging
- Stunning visions of Mars
- What is the Harm of Alternative Medicine?
- Welcome words from a politician
- CRI bibliometric performance: Part I
- O'er the World's Tempestuous Sea
- Heads I win, tails you lose
- The key to cutting through climate confusion
- Homeopathic remedies in NZ pharmacies
- Wildlife Economics- Introduction
- The HULC exoskeleton
- Summer of stats part 7- margins of error
- a quick lesson from statistics :-)
- Whole Earth Discipline
- CO2 emissions, birth & death rates by country, simulated real-time
- China and Free Internet Speech
- Reproducible research and computational biology
- mms revisited
- Light Sunday reading, viewing and thoughts.
- In the wake of Poseidon
- Sunday Spinelessness - Dipteran Deathtrap
- User-pays Health
- I thought the award for mistakes was mine!
- Catching a wolf serial killer
- Sperm of a feather clump together
- Map shows New Zealand with lowest death rate on earth in 1856, over 11 in 1000 dying
- Top patenting organisations in New Zealand: some stats
- Atheists provoke a reaction
- Mental Suggestion
- Can you feel the cold?
- Stonehenge built as ancient memory storage device?
- Library access to science and popular science journals: more bad news?
- Smoking Bans and the Effect of Health Warnings
- ScienceOnline2010 commentaries for those who weren't there
- The Big Day Out jetpack flyover
- Return of the Oyster Catcher Family
- Climate science's trouble spots
- Inconsistent Codeine
- asking the right questions
- The power of the ocean
- Climate change deniers’ tawdry manipulation of “hockey sticks”
- On the matter of time, and how the past crystallises out of the future
- British homeopathy sceptics group aims for sugar high (with Dawkins video)
- Yes, that block of cheese is costing you less...
- Long-Horn (Cerymabicid) Beetle Photos
- The Startup Ecosystem
- Doing Science in Public
- Analysis of stolen CRU emails by NZ blogger shows tawdry manipulation of facts – Poneke’s credibility now in tatters
- Dying to Get In
- BBQ Physics
- Journeys to the Ice – New SciBlogsNZ blogger
- Martin Luther King’s dream
- Introducing a new blogger: Journeys to the Ice
- Himalayan glacier melt explained
- Deleting a gene can turn an ovary into a testis in adult mammals
- Kangaroos, taboos and animal rights radicals
- The Climate Crisis
- NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – January ‘10
- The science of Haiti's earthquake
- The state of UK science journalism
- Oyster Catcher Family Photos
- All Journeys Begin With a First Step
- Your cameras has 15 mega-pixels? Bah! Mine has 570 mega-pixels.
- Otago Harbour in a red frenzy
- communicating science - an example of good practice
- Introduced Vespid Wasps
- Useful origami (and wine bottles)
- Giving a great scientific talk
- Monckton requires religious certification for scientists?
- Source for the goose: footnotes to history
- Teasers for day two of ScienceOnline2010
- Not Predictable
- Dealing with sea level rise: retreat, defend, or attack?
- Satellite imagery maps Haiti's sociopolitical landscape
- The joys of (prepaid) mobile broadband
- Live broadcasts from ScienceOnline2010
- procrastination - something to avoid
- A new tui photo
- Sunday Spinelessness - Crypsis Fail
- Journalist thinks world climate science publications are controlled by cabal
- New Zealand’s favourite plant
- The why of the Y-Chromosome's amazing evolutionary rate
- Seven feet high and rising
- No gods required
- No gods required
- Secular charity
- Secular charity
- External (bioinformatics) specialists: best on the grant from the onset
- Water news haikus no. 8
- How the US lost its lead in science and technology
- For those attempting to follow ScienceOnline2010 from afar
- The Victimless Myth
- The importance of evolution in medicine
- Dark Matter and statistics
- rather nice zoological videos
- Haiti earthquake
- Lynch mob mentality
- All this talk about 3-D movies and TVs is depressing
- Google vs China - who will blink first?
- Friedman: China beating US on low carbon energy
- And the winning entries for The Open Laboratory for 2009 are...
- Large, heavy objects
- on the shoulders of giants
- ScienceOnline2010: a whole lota' readin'
- Follow the climate money? Well, they did…
- I Trust You More if I Think You Think I’m Attractive.
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
- “Blithering idiocy”
- Positive Energy
- Telecom's compensation letter: remissly late?
- How do you measure quality of life? With difficulty
- Blogimmuniqué: Open commenting trial at Code for life blog
- Time for disclaimers on remedies?, "alternative" or not
- Water trend spotting for 2010
- the science of lolcats
- Ethics and climate action: we’re in this together
- Paid Parenthood
- Tim Minchin's attack on irrationality
- Follow the climate money? Well, they did...
- Framing or explaining?: don't frame the science itself
- Ice and the freezer
- saying a lot about little - another example of how not to use statistics
- Blogimmuniqué
- World Economic Forum: New Zealand is failing to innovate
- Understanding the “multiverse”
- Poisoned Plastic?
- cauliflory (but not with cheese)
- Developing bioinformatics methods: by who and how
- Cocaine on banknotes
- CES - 3DTV, the Googlephone and slate computing
- Summer of stats part 6 - Why are they coming here?
- Career ruminations
- Sunday Spinelessness - Christmas dinner
- Nor-westers and apricot brandy
- Of Mice (Brains) and Men
- Oops, he did it again
- UK from space – cool
- a wide froggy mouth - but not on a frog
- Rubbish criminal – an example
- When others are fleeing, UAE embraces DNA database for ALL
- Siberian Shelf methane increased in 2009
- Pyschic schmychic
- More on "What is a computational biologist?" (and related disciplines)
- Rutherford, Christchurch, alpha particles, Marsden and the like
- X-ray as art
- NZ beaches: Contaminated as
- What are patents good for?
- A good climate change book
- Lester Brown: US falling out of love with cars
- Science writing vs. science journalism
- Protest boat smashed by whaler
- Crime DNA databases should be independently examined
- Beware the retired scientist?
- Summer of stats part 5 - Where are we travelling?
- How hard can a tuatara bite?
- The importance of physics
- New Zealand and Australia - warmest decade on record
- Will the Google phone finally give Android mass-appeal?
- Philosophers aren’t so bad!
- Scientific baking. Great for those lab meetings or kids' parties.
- Slow Justice
- Deep sea drilling - you need a big bit!
- Retrospective: Credits, Dis-credits and mis-credits.
- Back to the long-neglected blog
- NZ blog ranking – RSS subscriptions 2009
- Food Fascists
- Popgun for hire: A$20,000
- You might fall in love this summer - with a sea-monster
- 55 year old murder – solved
- trees on stilts
- Gaia in turmoil
- Ginkgo biloba does not stem loss of brain function in elderly
- Summer of stats part 4 - Summer travel
- For those interested science journalism
- Where God went wrong- 10 biological design mistakes
- New decade cartoon: Calvin on scientific progress
- science and health degrees earn graduates more
- Summer of stats part 3 - what we buy
- "American" dates: Happy (late) Palindrome Day (sort-of) and dates in files
- The dogma of paradigm shifts
- Carbonscape and the new Victorians
- Visiting the satellites
- NZ biotech, Living Cell Technologies, wins research deal from US giant
- Overcoming dogmatism in science
- National Geographic photos of the year, 2009
- Hacked again
- Summer of Stats - our world in numbers
- The “supernatural” and dogmatism in science
- Marvellous year
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September
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2009
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December
- Video: Ardipithecus ramidus, evolution of man, chimps have more evolved hands
- The Origin of Species and the origin of species
- Media thought: Ask what is known, not the expert's opinion
- Wade in the water
- Scientific method and the “supernatural”
- Tragic end to year for journalism
- The Wizard turns on…
- Consensus, evidence, wikipedia and blogs
- Apple, e-ink and that much-rumoured tablet
- Belief, knowledge and science
- What’s ahead in 2010?
- A positive view of Copenhagen
- Monkeys have a smarter way to eat bananas than most humans?
- Scibloggers on Radio New Zealand this summer
- Hands, Eyes and Uses for Bricks
- misleading medical-science stories - & why most published research findings are false
- The year in non-fiction - pot boilers galore
- The Unconsidered Life
- Summer of stats part 2 - Of lettuces, strawberries and things
- australian red beech
- Thinking about education
- Simple Machines
- what researchers really mean
- Euthanasia (Part 3)
- “A plot to rule the world”
- may your christmas be filled...
- I wish it could be Christmas every day
- McDavitt on what the weather did in 2009
- Some of my favourite photos of 2009 Part I
- Euthanasia (Part 2)
- Storms of My Grandchildren
- George Monbiot on ClimateGate & the climate denial industry
- The We(s)t Coast
- After Copenhagen: new world disorder
- Christmas presents
- Happy (late) solstice
- The Last Hurrah (for now)...
- Euthanasia (Part 1)
- Testimony of non-believers
- botanical architecture
- The known universe - in all its beauty
- Summer of stats part I - What food costs
- Methane rise confirmed
- Season's greetings
- Scientists who died during 2009
- Scientists in "New Zealanders of the Year" media lists
- Reaching Out...
- Australian media on a mission to make scientists look dodgy
- cassowaries: crucial to rainforest ecology
- Copenhagen: no FAB deal
- The nanoscience of ice hockey
- great balls of sand
- Legal blunders, Xmas style
- Copenhagen closes: too little, too late
- [Open] Science Sunday – 20.12.09
- Becoming an atheist
- Behind the scenes in Copenhagen: historic COP out
- a whale of a community
- What do scientists think of the Copenhagen Accord?
- The global warming debate summarised
- Over-enthusiastic swallowing
- Climate change, swine flu dominated science coverage in 09
- The cracks are showing
- Craziness in Copenhagen
- Friday Geek Comedy Hour: Pick-up lines
- Justifying child abuse
- TIME's top ten scientific discoveries for 2009
- The ever-changing world of dendritic spines
- PON equipment market to top US$2 billion in 2009
- Invertebrates and tools: the coconut-carrying octopus
- Passengers on NZ509 Auckland to Christchurch Dec 7th, measles call
- Internet Censure – Big Brother in our neck of the woods?
- potpourri: homeopathy, journalism masterclasses & open access
- Whistling Kite Photo
- preparing for the future
- Sack all those scientists? yeah, right!
- That's a big "no" for carbon capture
- Are the days of torrenting numbered?
- Behind the scenes in Copenhagen: 2
- Amazon recommends….cholera
- NZ Atheist Bus Campaign reaches fund raising target in under a week
- The gossip test
- Then there is the Australian Ibis
- Cattle Egret Photos
- In their own words: Artists for Save Our Water
- The productivity of inventors in cities
- NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – December ‘09
- Science - where the money goes
- Tattoos, infra-red and criminals
- The cost of Christmas dinner
- I have moved to Sciblogs
- Personal perspectives in the life sciences for the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary
- LHC happenings
- Nano ho-ho
- Something potty in the state of Denmark
- GMOs and the plants we eat: neither are "natural"
- Female Darter Bird Photos
- owlcat. definitely not coming to a place near you, any time soon
- Next Generation Sequencing workshop
- Walker update
- The Hippocratic Oath and its younger relatives
- On the Turning Away
- The Pen is Mightier Than the Jab
- Explore ancient science books on-line
- rocket science & testosterone
- 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
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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
- Excellent Book 2: Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers
- Persistent Vegetative States and the Problem with Facilitated Communication
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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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
- Moving disembodied voice aids attention
- Using words is OK
- …Some fish, some barrel
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Faster Than a Speeding Antibiotic…
- Forgetting older science
- No I don't have the LHC timetable
- What the chiropractor said
- two ends of the science spectrum
- Open access week
- 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
- 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
- The physicist joke
- Forensic science applied to art
- Digital smiles
- Methods in Neuroscience
- blood-sucking vampire moths!
- BCA libels Simon Singh?
- The New Zealand skills deficit
- A victory for Simon Singh
- Is Garth George capable of original thought?
- sensory perception in t.rex
- fossil poo and moa diets
- More chemistry-bashing
- The Earth and Moon – from Mars
- Simon Singh Granted Permission to Appeal,
- Natural Health Expo(sed)?
- Human genomes
- 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
- There will be a short break- taking cameras to Australia
- Marsden 2009-II: So much to learn from synapses
- Why We Are Atheists
- 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
- 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
- ACC for FREE
- TV psychics: not in the real world, please
- 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
- Playing Chicken
- 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
- Claim Denied.
- No Relief
- Fab four: ways to meet the climate challenge
- 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
- A beginner’s guide to the importance of Arctic sea ice
- Scientists need to be Entrepreneurs?
- please do not adjust your set...
- Battle of the bus ads
- knuckle-walking - not an ancestral trait in humans
- Interview: 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- Tragedy in the UK
- Nine ways to stuff up a planet
- Recent tiger poaching story
- Data visualisation shows endless potential
- 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
- Stephen Fry's kakapo encounter
- Heart Hit
- Sirocco gives kakapo a bad name…
- What's your digital footprint?
- [Open] Science Sunday 4.10.09
- the 'missing link' disproved?
- What’s the worst that could happen?
- Evolution – The Story of Life
- Auckland Skeptics in the Pub
- Nano Pills
- 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
- 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
- Long legged lovers are on the loose
- On electric fish, molecules and behaviour
- Samoan tsunami damage
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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
- 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
- Stitchbird or Hihi Photo
- Where did you get that preposterous hypothesis
- Audible books not so listenable
- Carter, the unstoppable text machine
- Sciblogging: they blinded me with science
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- Video Test Post
- Fishics
- 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?
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December
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2010