Monckton’s Country Channel meltdown Peter Griffin Aug 09
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cindy 288 days ago
monckton always leaves an interview with at least one claim unchallenged (and one that would require verification). Such is the claim that John Abraham lied to scientists about what Monckton said.
No, he didn’t.
He just sent Monckton’s presentation to various scientists to peer review. Which they did.
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- Homeopath says to treat a burn... burn it some more
- TOSP Episode 17: January 16th 2012
- #Kotuku in nuptial feathers
- Antarctic report - measuring the melt
- Red Flags to Quackery
- Back into civilisation- kotuku photo
- Nothing is something
- Sunday Spinelessness - 2012
- The Three Little Pigs Choose Careers
- Elections - time for policies to be deposited in advance?
- Prat Watch #3: through the looking glass
- Climate Change and Migration
- Woo-ful MPs
- Dead man sued because his flying body parts hit a passer-by..and other stories (only in the USA)
- Kidneys are Kool with a capital K
- Neurons or chickens?
- Thai Yoga Massage: Herald, Wherefore Art Thou Sense?
- New drug driving campaign
- McLean’s folly 2: the reckoning
- Red, Red Wine
- Who drives the science/religion conflict?
- How Low Can They Go? Dr Oz AND Dr Phil talk to Psychics?!
- 12 Trends post-Christmas (Part 2)
- Ayurvedic medicine? Are You Kidding?
- Organisations for science and science communication in developing nations
- Steve Novella's BS detector
- The Webwhisperer: A Medical Resource
- NZ Herald's Alternative Therapies week: Letter to the Editor
- Especially for sunny days
- Why is "Old" Good in Alternative Medicine?
- ISCB to respond to Research Works Act (HR 3699)
- Keeping it cold
- Nutrition policy for 2012
- Hansen: extreme heat the new normal
- Initial reports are not a done deal
- leeches & health - asking some questions
- Heavens Above - What is a Motivational Astrologer?
- Body on the Queen’s estate – actors comment on forensic science
- one reason many don't 'get' science
- $100 Dialysis – the vision
- Edmond Halley, an underappreciated hydrologist
- TOSP Episode 16: January 9th 2012
- The climate terroirist – Gladstones’ new bag
- To boldly go… to a low carbon future
- The Official Sciblogs Podcast – Episode 15 – Science Prizes, Higgs, bees and more!
- Open letter across the barricade
- Can Woo make You Blue?
- Brain Zap
- a homeopathic dinosaur?
- Detox Foot Pads
- Prat Watch #2: the 2011 Climate BS Awards
- Back in the pool...
- New book formats
- Early Warming
- time travellers i have met**
- Check Your Target
- Mossbauer Spectroscopy
- The discovery of reverse gravity
- skulls & braaiiinz - what's not to like? (also, plants)
- The argument from authority (or lack thereof)
- Hidden Costs
- Most Haunted, or Mostly Self Deception?
- On Levels of Evidence
- December ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
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May
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2011
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December
- Clay tablet science
- homeopathy is 'personalised'?
- 'Theranostics' - Therapeutic Diagnostics
- Shapes of things (2012 and all that)
- Don't let the teacher get away with silence
- Peter Jackson – Satan’s Little Helper”
- Vitamyths
- Just So Science - Nanotech in 1995
- Politics of Climate Justice
- “Other ways of knowing” and their result.
- Sugar Sickness
- XMRV-CFS, further retraction
- Slaughtering some sacred seasonal cows
- Detox Biocleanse - uncovering pseudoscience.
- Primary gifting period comes but once a year
- Doublethink: doubleplus ungood
- Earthquake at Christchurch
- XMRF-CFS: full retraction on it's way
- Reacting to a death with respect and hatred
- What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
- The Oath - BBC Radio 4
- Labour lobs science and innovation agenda at National – watch out Steven Joyce!
- the status & quality of year 11 & 12 science in australian schools
- Suppressing superflu recipe: NSABB say sort of....
- The Climate Show #23: Durban and the return of the electric car
- 12 Trends post-Christmas (Part 1)
- The Healthy Contraceptive?
- letters to the editor: science & god
- Sabotaging science
- Sea-Eagle Panorama
- An intense moment: Rainbow Lorikeet
- An intense moment: Rainbow Lorikeet
- using pseudoscience to teach science
- Take a bow biosciences
- Melissa's Miserable Measles
- The Official Sciblogs Podcast - Episode 14 - panel discussion!
- Hidden treasure is fools gold
- TOSP Episode 15: December 19th 2011
- Is thorium energy's silver bullet?
- TOSP Episode 15: December 19th 2011
- ‘Twas the post before Christmas: 2011 in review
- Computational biologists at ScienceOnline2012
- Jim Hopkins: vapid, vacuous, pretty vacant
- Write an Oath for Scientists
- Christmas present ideas: This Hell would be useful!
- Sunday Spinelessness - A rare case of secondary spinelessness
- PM's Science Teacher Prize: Dr Angela Sharples
- The effect of the Foo Fighters on the human body and seismic activity
- Oceanographers win PM’s science prize for climate work
- An Adorable and Thought Provoking Clip
- Higgs and homeopathy
- The Future of Healthcare
- convergent evolution: the pandas' thumb
- Happy Christmas
- Flooding and Landslides Pummel the top of the South Island
- Christmas gift ideas: Aussie wisdom
- Ahoy me hearties; an offshore way around America’s green card requirements?
- TOSP Episode 14: December 12th 2011
- TOSP Episode 14: December 12th 2011
- Was that a Higgs I just saw?
- Christmas gift ideas: The human mind – a history
- new woo for you - 'sound' therapy
- Last night at the #ICCB
- Science sidelined at Durban
- Melanie's Marvelous Measles????
- Christmas gift ideas: Evolution of gods, morals and violence
- Stalking horse comments on innovative Auckland – Gluckman
- Prat Watch #1: columnated ruins domino
- melanin + the pecten ... a new metabolic future??
- The New Zealand arthropod collection
- The race to create the bionic eye
- Christmas gift ideas: Working on Mars
- Some ICCB tiger thoughts
- Water footprints - What do they mean for us in New Zealand?
- A mad deal in Durban
- Momentum conservation again
- Get nominating for the Skeptics Awards 2011!
- (repost) Sunday Spinelessness - The origin and extinction of species
- Christmas gift ideas: One for the kids
- Can diet improve our mental health?
- When is my result incorrect?
- Suggestions for better science journalism
- assessment for learning
- Modern chiropractic therapy is based on evidence, and here it is
- What a wonderful world
- The scientization of politics
- From fireflies to superbugs....
- Where to get information on NZ hydrology
- Christmas gift ideas: Why we deny climate change
- The Schizophrenic Futurist
- Free vector graphics for Mac (and Linux/Windows)
- The Official Sciblogs Podcast - Episode 13 - the power of groups (and more!)
- TOSP Episode 13: December 5th 2011
- TOSP Episode 13: December 5th 2011
- Journey to the centre of the washing machine
- God, UFOs, Life After Death: What do New Zealanders Believe?
- Christmas gift ideas: Thinking of our grandchildren
- what about genetic evidence linking us to chimpanzees
- People lie about washing their hands
- women & gay men are worst drivers, quoth the telegraph. o, rly?
- Dumped dogs not a good look for vivisectionists
- Christmas gift ideas: How We Know What’s Really True
- Breaking News!: Have Constipation? Moxibustion Won’t Help!
- Testing business helps prove products’ promises
- Two half-brains
- A challenge to our leaders – why don’t we legalise euthanasia?
- Christmas gift ideas: Kids – it’s OK to be different!
- eye-catching blog post titles - I mean, 'icky toilets'?
- Welcome political forthrightness
- prior learning & university success in biology
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo: Monitor Lizard
- A debunking handbook provides lessons in science communication
- Arsenic in Water
- Sunday Spinelessness - Giant weta are amazing... but not the biggest bugs
- Why don't we have a cure for AIDS yet?
- The counsel of failure: Greenhouse Policy Coalition on Durban
- New Caledonia
- Physics and Engineering Education
- More on climatic shifts and river flows
- The British Library's been digitising newspapers...
- challenges in learning biology
- rhys morgan - another one to follow
- November ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- Hydrologists to flood into Wellington for annual conference
- Prime Minister as prime innovator – get going on #13
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November
- Put it there pal: the real story of Chris de Freitas and Climate Research
- To Die For
- a follow-up (from a new blog)
- Climate change and the acidifying, freshening, warming Southern Ocean
- Suppressing superflu recipe: nanny state or drawing a sensible line in the sand?
- Finding out about the astronomers who found the universe
- Rutherford medalist talks free radicals
- Beyond 2020
- What's the buzz?
- Kiwis blogging about evolution
- Vidal’s voyage to Durban
- How did the pollsters go?
- Hot water
- "Trade fuels demand": Phrases that should be banned
- TOSP Episode 12: November 28th 2011
- Where does NZ take its water from?
- Sunday Spinelessness - How long 'till they rise up and kill us all?
- Hypocritical gratitude?
- NZ wind: call for 20% by 2030
- The Ghost Map, a TED alternative to election night programming
- Will early returns accurately predict tonight's outcome?
- TOSP Episode 11 (Part I): From women in science to nanocars!
- Ulan Bator’s geoengineering scheme is THAT cool
- Climategate 2.0 and “toecurling” journalism
- The Future of Science in 2021?
- The Climate Show #22: Durban doubts & Renwick on extremes
- You don't like it? Go somewhere else.
- Rena: Where's the physics?
- It’s crowded up there
- Brinicle!
- Startup investment scene in NZ, like the rest of the world, is changing fast
- Recent NZ research from climate change to tussock | Journal of Hydrology (NZ): 50(2)
- Human stupidity and the NZ election (Heigh ho! Heigh ho!)
- "Just So Science" - The Feynman Hypothesis
- Two year old turkey for Thanksgiving: CRU emails part deux
- The Mikovits / XMRV research saga continues
- Introduction to Modern Climate Change
- Moral strawmannery
- Report brings facts for the fluffy functional foods and nutraceuticals industries
- TOSP Episode 11: November 21st 2011
- Elections and antimatter
- what about archaeopteryx?
- Sea level fall and floods due to massive evaporation
- Illegal lollipops, bad teeth and a new 'apple'!
- A pair of swallow photos
- Death. Destruction. Science. It’s a winner!
- All great stuff - Sunday reading
- Creative science writing
- Sunday Spinelessness - Hover fly
- Stormy weather: we’re making it worse, and there’s more on the way
- Holistic (aka hocum) technology: YCTinside®
- The Official Sciblogs Podcast - Episode 10 - SPECIAL EDITION!
- Royal Society’s science book of year Winton Prize winner.
- Science medal and link to wealth creation a great endeavour
- You know you need a new car when...
- writing about environmental history
- Reclaiming ‘intelligent design’
- The Case of the Mysterious Jellyfish
- A (selection of) day(s) in the life of a forensic scientist
- More questions for a forensic scientist to answer….
- Stem Cell Therapies
- Long-term fluctuations in river flow conditions linked to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation
- Technology companies need to skite more
- Victoria Park Tunnel Pistol found Not Guilty
- Bending of beams
- 5,000 posts on Sciblogs!
- A lesson in human logic
- Ideas aplenty, and some may blossom after Startup Weekend
- TOSP Episode 10: November 14th 2011
- Losing the battle to save rhinos
- The importance of groundwater
- The scientific yardstick for political policy
- Putting a price on the justice system
- Is Keith Ward really that naive about science?
- picking & choosing what to believe in...
- Sunday Spinelessness - The 95%
- what, exactly, do they teach?
- Science Books for Christmas
- The software developer's generalisation dilemma
- Too Many People?
- What use now is handwriting?
- One of our best science communicators awarded
- 11:11 (and 11 seconds) on 11/11/11 (or 11/11/11 if you are American)
- Australia’s carbon price mechanism in six dot points
- Our pale blue dot
- The Climate Show #21: carbon, coal and Cook on BEST
- Let the sun shine in
- Fine-tuning fallacies
- The Official Sciblogs Podcast - Episode 9 (1/3)
- Kiwi inductive car charging technology
- Electricity Show
- The low down on groundwater
- Vitamins: Myths, facts, use and misuse
- Bright Ideas Challenge feels like it’s already permanent
- Polling bias among local pollsters?
- "Just So Science" - Complex Star Dust
- Three years of “very serious” climate policy failure
- Rebecca Skloot on writing creative non-fiction
- Thermal expansion again
- Election graphics
- Oxfam NZ Election Debate: Climate change
- Tripping (on) the Light Fantastic
- Election time: Science Q&A - education
- More science in Election 2011 than you'd think
- Some photography thoughts
- How much does the internet weigh?
- Cultural effect of The Big Bang Theory
- At last, a kick along for high tech and niche manufacturing
- Bugs and more bugs
- TOSP Episode 9: November 7th 2011
- Water storage is not a panacea
- The denial tango
- you could probably sell anything with the right sales pitch
- Sunday Spinelessness - A darkling beetle
- Women in Chemistry
- Answer simple question – win an iPad
- Customising the white-balance on the NEX-5
- visualising a curriculum
- ScienceOnline2012 - only two registration slots to go
- The Self Preservation of Grass
- Day 4 with Nex 5
- Riddle-me-ree/open thread
- The promise of renewables
- Forensic Parody
- Coffee and Cancer - A complicated story
- Te Radar wades into water
- Cracked PIG spawns big berg
- New Zealand in good company. Pity about the USA
- Trust science, not scientists
- A quick introduction to the Nex 5
- Rational morality
- Time to read fine print of manuka research project specs
- The gullible leading the credulous (with a sting in the tale)
- deconstructing zeolite
- Science writing is everywhere
- The Atlas of Economic Complexity
- #SciFund is up at RocketHub!
- A step back in time
- Where maths and physics gets you...
- Teaching bioinformatics at high school
- Crowdsourcing science funding
- On borrowing e-books from your library
- October ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change
- Confounding Variables
- As seen on TV
- Plastics CoE remolds itself into a Polymer Alliance
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October
- The coders' quotation quandary
- What’s your number?
- TOSP Episode 8: October 31st 2011
- It's a mirrorless world
- The curious problem of assessing physics
- Wrapped up in books: Don Easterbrook drags Elsevier through the mud
- What do scientists want from politicians?
- Sunday Spinelessness - Om nom nom nom
- Concern over William Lane Craig’s justification of biblical genocide
- Discovery of a new Ebola-like virus in Europe
- We can’t rule out catastrophic climate change
- Wolinsky, Kendrew and others on science blogging
- Flooded Hard-Drives and Hondas: Economic Implications of Thailands' Latest Natural Disaster
- How to be a successful stalker
- Future interactions, reinventing discovery, living homes and more
- Open Access Week – 2011 – from Open Science Summit
- Reprise: "Drone meets nerd, drinks beer and talks"
- Weathering Fights & Science - what's it up to?
- Vaccine preventable outbreaks
- The Official Sciblogs Podcast - Episode 7
- On the philosophy of modelling
- Open Access Week – 2012
- Outsourcing moral decisions to justify genocide
- Honey deal not so sweet
- What Drives Denialism? The Simple Answer
- Royal Society 'aged' back catalog free, permanently
- Wake of the flood (first reprise)
- New Zealand happy – some preachers upset!
- When a City Falls - trailer for movie on Christchurch earthquakes
- Bioinformatics - QC, reproducible, statistical and sequence-oriented
- Life 10,000 metres underwater
- Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion: sounding alarm for the next pandemic?
- Making New Zealand Too Small To Fail
- The Ecological Rift
- The never ending battle
- TOSP Episode 7: October 25th 2011
- The continuity equation
- Measuring snow and rain with a crashed spaceship
- Key man in innovation role?
- Transforming Not Recovering
- Just So Storytelling - Tell Us a Story 2011 Winners
- Having it both ways
- You’re (not) the BEST thing
- Sunday Spinelessness - Spike
- A book worth reading - The Emperor of all Maladies
- Ranking human conflicts and tyrannies
- The neutrino song
- What books do you think geeks should read?
- Dealing with Advocates of Pseudoscience
- Old and new
- Dawkins responds to a stalker – Craig gets his debate
- How much water do we use?
- The Climate Show #20: the boys are back (on Tuvalu)
- Avoiding possible catastrophe – even if you are confused
- Borat is Monckton: The Hamster knows…
- Opposite charges repel, don't they?
- Milk milk everywhere but not a drop to drink
- A Wellington and Auckland commercialisation hand-holding proposal more than it seems
- Get Your Up-To-Date Vaccine News
- Public perceptions of NZ's freshwater management
- Health professionals call for action
- This week's TOSP: The Official Sciblogs Podcast, Episode 6
- Young scientists tell it their way
- You CAN be good with God!
- Say what now?
- Too much of a good thing?
- The Legitimate Risks of Vaccines
- Where there’s a wool there’s a way F212 presumes
- Michael Cox talks complete rubbish
- The varied world of physics
- Turbulent Transitions
- Defending The Term “Anti-Vaccine”
- TOSP Episode 6: October 17th 2011
- TOSP Episode 6: October 17th 2011
- Not a pretty picture: recent science summarised
- The Vultures are Circling
- Sunday Spinelessness - a weta
- ScienceWriters2011
- Big money behind local climate change deniers?
- Big asteroids heading towards the earth
- Whale Fall (after life of a whale)
- Whose fault is bad science understanding?
- C's founder is no more
- New Zealand internet usage is on the up!
- Public perceptions of NZ's freshwater environment
- Historians of science sometimes miss the wood for the trees
- IAS Complaint Part 4: Anti-Vaccine Impact in New zealand
- Women, Media and Society
- Monkey quotes
- IAS Complaint Part 3: Vaccine ingredients – Not so bad really
- Peter Gluckman is introducing a blog
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2011 - Quasi Crystals
- Fahrenheit 212 turns up the heat for NZ wool
- The long history of hot air and inaction
- Climate Change and the End of Exponential Growth
- the end of the world is nigh. again...
- Giant squids and a bit of a giggle
- Carrots for my neighbour
- IAS Complaint Part 2: Gardasil Horrors – Horrific Reasoning
- Challenging forensic science independence
- Misleading reflections
- Vaccines and Autism – Media Report Card Expanded
- Magical Magnetic Thinking Strikes Again
- Approaching morality scientifically
- Deepak Chopra "reviews" The Magic of Reality
- Lauren Ipsum: a book about which I'm rather excited
- IAS Complaint Part 1: Thimerosal in Your Vaccine? No.
- Should Science Suppress Unorthodox Science?
- Reasons to Become a Scientist
- NEW! The Official Sciblogs Podcast: Episode 5
- Anti-Vaccine Charities – Is there any Quality control on Charities?
- Ethicists have problems with ethics!
- World Space Week podcast – Episode 8: Talia Page and Stanislav Fort
- Will science and innovation ‘Get Carter’?
- Science snippets
- Another planet (3.0)
- TOSP Episode 5: October 10th 2011
- TOSP Episode 5: October 10th 2011
- Feeling better than I have in months
- How to win a Nobel Prize in Physics
- The climate change denial machine
- World Space Week podcast – Episode 7: Robert Zubrin
- Marsden 2011: Toughest year ever?
- World Space Week podcast – Episode 6: Melanie Johnston Hollitt
- Sunday Spinelessness - The other monster
- The Nobel Disease
- Whooping cough, vaccines, cocooning and the IAS
- A fighting chance?
- World Space Week podcast – Episode 5: Mark Rocket
- It's A Long Way From Amphioxus
- Ig Nobel banter
- The Official Sciblogs Podcast: Episode 4
- old fossils on a spoil heap
- World Space Week podcast – Episode 4: Marius Piso
- Legions of links (and the odd thought)
- we saw koalas!
- Iconic Apple CEO Steve Jobs dies
- World Space Week podcast – Episode 3: Julien Girard
- How much water does New Zealand have again?
- Emotion and personality in science
- How do you know that?
- Getting students to do your work for you
- Ag and hort forum tries to get off the farm
- Endless reading
- Unanswered questions for Brent and David Tong
- We're only human?
- The blind leading…
- World Space Week podcast – Episode 2: Chris McKay
- Nature vs. nurture: score = one all
- SOS tour adds Lakes dates; Wratt in Wellington
- Why it pays to check the work of the other side: the freeing of Amanda Knox
- TOSP Episode 4: October 4th 2011
- Unanswered questions for Brent and David Tong
- TOSP Episode 4: October 4th 2011
- Should New Zealand have a fat tax?
- World Space Week podcast - Episode 1: Dennis Stone
- Student opinion counts
- Become an ‘authority’ to maximise the benefits of social media for your business – Sisson
- How We Know What’s Really True
- Hybrid cars , on the subject of
- First Light House Third in USA
- Problems with pdf eBooks – metadata issues
- GeoCities site to be excavated as the 'Digital Pompeii'
- Blue Skies or Applied Research - An Old Debate
- Sunday Spinelessness - For aussie beetles, beer bottles are an evolutionary trap
- Butterfly futures flutter by
- I Shouldn't be Alive ...
- Ben Goldacre: Battling Bad Science
- September’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
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September
- Is there room for emotion in science?
- The CSI Effect in New Zealand: what is it?
- Scientific grammer [sic]
- Teh most bestest fizx lolcat eva?
- Front Row Seat to the Japanese Tsunami
- Illuminating communication
- Southern lights
- Is there room for emotion in science?
- Loss of Earthquake Insurance for Heritage - SIGH!
- Energy Forecasts
- We have the technology, but…
- Just So Hiatus?
- Where will a PhD take me?
- Tired of Predictions?
- Get a grip!
- The CSI Effect in New Zealand: what is it?
- Some of the most appalling drivel I've ever seen
- Compulsory payments for advancement of religion – let’s get rid of that.
- Internet games follow the numbers and money
- Some recent recommended science books
- Then there's the email
- Beware the glowing millipede
- Rough Winds: Extreme Weather and Climate Change
- Stamp out Anti-science
- Scientific grammer [sic]
- Holding (the) Cosmos in my Hand
- NASA and the Speed of Light
- Christchurch Heritage in the Media Again
- Go digital for dollars – content forum spruiks Kiwi capability
- Sniffer bees
- If you think the All Blacks shirt was a rip off, think again.
- Art in science
- TOSP Episode 3: September 26th 2011
- TOSP Episode 3: September 26th 2011
- Support for greening the economy
- It never stops
- Evolutionary cooperation
- Sunday Spinelessness - How chitons are tougher than stone
- Teaching kids critical thinking
- Time for a New Scientific Revolution
- Factoid and links - Sunday reading
- sigh - another on-line hoax
- a response from 'scientists anonymous'
- Alternative Medicine
- Sea level rise and the Christchurch rebuild
- Faster than light and Italian earthquakes
- Is your dog as healthy as you? Not likely in your case, Ms Kelland.
- Not good news
- FTL neutrinos FTW!
- Where have we been?
- The 24/7 lab: in praise of time out
- Why are radio telescopes so big?
- Game on?
- Tonight's sallies from cuckoo-land
- are students really as tech-savvy as we think?
- Dismissing Greens’ plan out of hand not justified
- Rings around Uranus
- Another 24 hours, and more threats
- Agriculture’s ‘failure’ the place to view its next 20 years of success – conference
- Life sciences want bioinformatics, but not so much e-infrastructure?
- Scratch cards - the sequel
- Not going to turn down the chance here.
- Call for legal trade in rhino horn to be debated
- Scientists as scapegoats?
- William Lane Craig’s “logic”
- Journalists, editors and science writers - checking with the source
- Recently appointed Archaeology Curator, Dr Louise Furey, gives the facts on New Zealand prehistory
- 'Pseudoscience' for profit
- I’m a scientist - the film
- Why Advertising Irritates Me
- Today's Macro Photo
- Times Atlas attracts wrath of glaciologists
- Paypal's massive error, hex and nybbles
- The end of cold dark matter?
- Current extreme weather events part of climate change
- Algae conversion partnership precursor to bigger things?
- Happy Birthday Otzi
- TOSP Episode 2: September 19th 2011
- The Earth from the ISS
- You can't keep the crazy down
- Science and the “supernatural”
- Sunday Spinelessness - Speciation by magic
- Climate Change and Global Energy Security
- Our Stellar Origins
- In the near future: genome sequencing for the masses
- Manufacturing Doubt
- I'm A Celebrity, Make Me An Archaeologist!
- Arsenic, Apples and Dr Oz
- A lecture not to miss
- Tonight's Macro Photo
- Scratch Cards
- Christchurch rockfall
- A Science Vision for Christchurch
- The Influence of Buildings
- Inaugural Chancellor's Lecture - Professor Sir Paul Callaghan
- A photon walks into a hotel...
- Vaccines and Autism – Media Report Card
- The Lesson from China
- Empathy for colleagues
- Sciblogs podcast episode 1
- Nice irony to showcasing Wellington businesses in the Beehive
- 'Weekend Nanotech' - They're making graphene out of WHAT?!
- Where's my Robot? [Part 2]
- Where's my Robot? [Part 1]
- Some scenes from Hun-Chun
- Approaching a Middle East peace
- Natural Gas is Not a Green Fuel
- Climate Change: The Long View
- Atheists aren’t shrill – just disgusting?
- 'Just So Science' - So back to those impossible stars
- It isn’t the sun
- On 'Ever Wondered' this week: New Zealand's water resources
- SOS Roadshow: Final Days
- Trying for that elusive tui photo
- Discussion: 'Manager-free zone' call for university
- The problem with having odd-shaped balls...
- Jolting Contrasts
- Rugby fans - get physical
- And we're live!
- Introducing a new blog: The Official Sciblogs Podcast
- What’s this about cosmic rays and global warming?
- The Case for a Carbon Tax
- 'Just So Science' - Perspective
- Criminal law and the Rugby World Cup
- I met Wayne Barnes
- Sunday Spinelessness - Visualising fungal communities
- Breaking the deadlock on shipping emissions
- teaching what you don't know
- What is Your Favourite Sagan Quote?
- A Week of Contradiction
- Friday afternoon before the Cup starts
- Making life from the primordial soup
- Online open education
- Giving an opposable thumbs-up to Australopithecus sediba
- John Cook Wins Eureka Prize
- The Ups and Downs of Keyhole Archaeology
- The Quantum World - Symphony of Science
- Carl Sagan - Science Communicator Extraordinaire
- the value of relaxed discussion
- The Crime of Ecocide
- Thermoeconomics
- Evolution and education – advice for teachers
- Free books: basic statistics, evolution and origin of man
- Latest Arctic Sea Ice Report
- So who is still with film these days?
- Tracks on the Moon
- What Motivates the Scientist Deniers?
- the origin of modern humans - free webinar
- That’s what I like to see in a young woman!
- Welcome Ban Ki-moon
- Banning plastic bags: real change, or a cosmetic solution?
- Surely it’s not MSI’s job to bankroll a Kiwi Landing Pad in San Francisco?
- The Inquisition of Climate Science
- are we ready for disaster?
- Computer modelling of aircraft boarding
- Spring in NZ means Tuis
- A reminder of reality’s magic
- Compare broadband, mobile, TV costs and services
- "Just So Science" - The Fusion Conundrum
- Sunday Spinelessness - An online fungal foray
- Health and the Mind/Body Connection
- Tar Sands Action Draws to a Finish, But More to Come says McKibben
- Letter bombing nanotech researchers?!
- Dramatic Pictures of Petermann Glacier Ice Loss
- The Internet of Things
- Freaking people out with tales of gore
- Trouble of enormous magnitude
- Python and science
- Energy Strategy in Denial of Climate Change Reality
- A crocodile photo for Thursday
- August ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- A quick marathon to conceive good ideas – ‘Start-up weekend’
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August
- One Year On: Your Stories
- Barriers to clean energies
- Aquaflow in Multi-Biomass Venture
- Pondering what to write next
- Religious theology of secularism
- E for Effort: The EQC Report Card (Part 2)
- E for Effort: The EQC Report Card (Part 1)
- Exams that you can talk in
- The Anti-Science of the Republican Party Terrifies
- Mutating a line
- “Genetically engineering” web start-ups one way to overcome gaps in the Kiwi ecosystem
- Surviving August
- Martydom of the priveliged
- Dismaying Australian Politics
- Sunday Spinelessness - Little creatures that make a world
- Local events: science story telling, non-academic careers, doctors and evidence
- New Opencast Mine Permitted
- The proton and neutron: same and different
- Tell Us a Story: The Power of Narrativium
- The Power of Non-violent Civil Disobedience
- What is DiDo?
- Steve Jobs stands down as CEO of Apple Computer
- W(h)ither the high value manufacturing review?
- Another book for the kids
- Astonish Me - newly discovered species
- Milliband’s Reading Cheers Monbiot
- Not Darwin's tree of life
- Crop circles
- Free competition to find Transformative Technologies 2011 winner – give LanzaTech a hand
- SOS Roadshow Still Travelling
- Secular democracy and its critics
- “Police armed with keyboards can be as effective as those with truncheons” – discuss
- The cryptic existence of the academic
- Thinking Old-Style Big
- Momentum conservation
- Chronic fatigue research sparks death threats
- Snow doesn't stop hydrologists
- "Weekend Nanotech": Snot-light?
- Climate Show: Fracking and the big chill
- Big Pharma: We don't want to kill Pharmac
- How did you learn to critique the scientific literature?
- Arrests and jailings begin
- Sunday Spinelessness - Sluglett
- "Just So Science" - Superflare
- Why Tar Sands Must Stay in the Ground
- The UK Riots and Knee Jerk "Justice"
- a 'little job' for the weekend
- Mac OS X - quickly inspecting the contents of a file
- Scientist prepared to risk arrest
- Women in Science
- Corrections and clarifications
- Social disorder
- Biochar remains promising
- The obesity epidemic in New Zealand
- We are satisfied... so why the high suicide rates?
- Hitler objects to atheist charge
- Turning into physicists...
- It’s sort of a pity we seem to have lots of underground hydrocarbons
- Mind altering microbes Part I: Suicidal crickets
- 440 FOI requests in one day! From one person!
- Science reporting - accuracy does not matter?
- TVNZ viewer slapped for flagging supernova-sized error
- Another wind farm approved.
- Weltec and IRL cozy up in innovative move
- HTML5 + molecular visulations = win
- Land of the big white snow
- Four legs good
- Timelapse: snow in Dunedin
- Who are you?
- There is something about Wellington
- Snow from space
- This Is Not Cool
- Are You Ready for the Faux-Zombie Apocalypse?
- Report reveals New Zealand science's gender gap
- a mammoth resurrection task
- Pre-Designing Your Lab for Sustainability
- Bent spoons galore for coverage of "charlatan" Ring
- How deep is the snow at your place?
- New bioinformatics journal - EMBnet.journal
- Some things for the kids
- "Weekend Nanotech" - Nanomachines
- Sunday Spinelessness - A Sunday Spiral
- The God Species
- "Just So Science" - A Star is Born
- Congratulations PZ
- The dangers of reflective blogging
- Abbie Smith on vaccines, your immune system and viruses
- Printed books to become limited to up-market gifts?
- Horn of Africa Drought: is it climate change?
- Friction: Stick or Slip?
- How scientists see each other
- Moving away from the "God complex" - Tim Harford on TED
- The blinkered view of politics?
- Plotting geographic data on a world map with Python
- Safari v Opera
- How people in science see each other
- what scientists can do to help teachers in the compulsory education system
- All the madness in the world
- I get email
- What foresight animal are you?
- NZ Scholarship physics
- The first science films
- Leave fossil fuels undisturbed.
- Monckton's Country Channel meltdown
- As we build our world we build our minds
- NZ blog rankings update
- spacepr0n: the Discovery's cockpit
- When the abstract or conclusions aren't accurate or enough
- "Just So Science" - The Dusty Eagle
- Is Monckton good value?
- Sunday Spinelessness - A visit form a queen
- chemistry cat strikes again
- Teaching: Theory or practice?
- Reviewing Deadly Choices
- Anthropogenic CO2 Far Exceeds Volcanic
- How algorithms shape our world
- "Weekend Nanotech" - Bat Thermal Imaging
- The iBrain?
- biological oddities, including the naughty bits
- Sonic anemometer
- The best and worst science stories revealed
- Pharyngula undergoes fission
- Leighton Smith, Monckton melt down over climate
- The reality of scientific research
- Imprisoned activist’s moving court statement.
- Mining the moon
- High level ‘innovation’ thinking receives scant attention
- Animating Auckland's public transport network - Take Two
- International Year of Chemistry Events in Christchurch
- Media7 science special, best and worst stories
- Feedback from students
- America’s Climate Problem: The Way Forward
- How science changed our world
- The good in Robert Winston's bad ideas
- Monckton messes own nest
- Honesty in forensic science, Gary Bowering
- Writer’s minor holiday
- Digging into some of the worst results of human behaviour – why?!
- Welcome to my world wide futures web
- Introducing a new blog: ariadne (a foresight blog)
- World report on disability
- The salt debate continues
- Nano tech fabricated into new use
- Lessons from the Murdoch saga
- A swift and deadly foe
- Students unhappy over university travel bill
- July ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- Natural units
- "Just So Science" - The Astral Archer's Bow
- (non)impact of placebo on the common cold
- What lies inside jupiter
-
July
- The absurd “moral superiority” of tar sands oil
- Sunday Spinelessness - Butterflies!
- Videos on morality
- Rash Brash and the potty peer’s PR pratfall
- Appeals court concludes that Myriad can patent BRCA genes
- "Weekend Nanotech" - Rhinovirus Nanotechnology
- Google personalised searches and the 'echo chamber' effect?
- chemistry cat to the rescue
- Science advisor position
- Should we teach examples of scientists falling for unscientific practices?
- Pat Churchland on the science of morality
- Sorry for the lack of entries...
- Crowd-sourcing for snow depth data
- MSI portfolio – looking like the best ministerial game in town
- the taipei IBO - what we did when not in the jury room
- Haemophilia - towards a cure using genetic engineering
- The Climate Show #17: the end of the peer show
- Research project coding v. end-user application coding
- Hard Talk on the wrong track
- Breivik’s terrorism and science
- The current 'cool' factor in science
- National MP’s lobbying for MSI position
- Global Climate Change: A Primer
- what it was like at the IBO, part 1
- Terror in Norway
- Structured procrastination (#2)
- Thermal expansion
- Sunday Spinelessness is putting its feet up today
- "Just So Science" - Sagantastic
- What genetic changes make us human?
- BBC about to bite bullet on climate BS
- Science Coverage in the Media – A Report on the BBC
- Teaching contradictions
- Atlantis returns home – viewed from ISS
- Last chance to pick best and worst science stories
- New Zealand’s voyage of economic self-discovery
- Before installing Mac OS X Lion
- Talking Science
- Don't Be Such A Scientist
- technology for technology's sake, or is there something more?
- Nerdnite 6 - Review and Science!
- Background Briefing for Mockton’s NZ visit
- Kivalina: A Climate Change Story
- New Zealand's next top model
- international biology olympiad: nz team brings home the medals :-)
- Feelings about guilt or innocence of a defendent & “a-ha!”
- Wet, wet, wet
- Bioinformatics: ISMB on-line
- We have a winner...
- The inverse femtobarn
- SOS roadshow comes to Hamilton
- nerdnite wellington #6: seriously awesome
- Science has the real debate
- A Geek Nation reviewed
- Tangaroa's amazing voyage
- Expert Witness: book review feedback
- a re-run of 'fact and theory'
- "Just So Science" -The Transient Teapot
- Man-made bird flies
- Bias in the history of science
- GNS geologist Kevin Berryman speaking at July 15th Christchurch earthquake media briefing
- de Freitas feeds his students sceptic propaganda
- Sunday Spinelessness - What the... ?
- Weekend Nanotech - Viruses, Light and Microfluidics
- plants - more than you expect (again)
- The Climate Show #16: Keith Hunter on oceans, acids and the carbon cycle
- Seven years of discovery
- An "I don't understand science" letter
- Your picks for the best and worst science journalism
- Hot air rises
- Your chance for a free book
- Revolution and realism required: UN report
- Things to do in Wellington and Dargaville
- A forensic scientist tells it like it is - free book to give away
- "Just So Science" - The Winter Wonders
- Nature, at your service
- I'm in a questioning mood
- why anecdotal 'evidence' is problematic
- That hacking scandal
- "Just So Science" - The Typhoon Titan and Synthetic Life
- Tech transfer vouchers starting slow, but will help crank up an innovation conversation
- Teaching new things
- meditating on enrolment (again)
- FTTH News Update
- Robots and tentacles
- The Faraday Suit
- Are scientists hostile to religion?
- Carbon pricing comes to Australia
- Sunday Spinelessness - The first animals (molecular biology)
- Another green world (please)
- choose wisely... (redux)
- ICEHOUSE Ideas ... Inspiring
- if you're thinking of taking Scholarship biology...
- Apparent weight? Apparently not
- Galileo’s modern critics
- Murder: head in David Attenborough’s garden…
- interruption to normal service
- Science Fiction Themes
- Enthusiastic Young Chemists
- Our greatest journey
- She blinded me with science
- Symphony of Science - "Children of Africa"
- Woolly thinking it’s not
- Hulme: gone soft
- Take a summer studentship in Dunedin, New Zealand
- Collaborative Archaeology and Restoration on Marae DIY
- Filling in the "Gaps" in Evolution
- Electricity and heat
- Science blogging at Scientific American ramps up
- Debates in the philosophy of science
- Markets and the scientific method
- The "Yuck" Factor wastes $35,000 US
- Global Warming and Political Intimidation
- On the road again
- Scientist for a Day stirs the innovation pot
- Rockets
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo
- Ricoh buys Pentax
- Should Maths be Taught in Schools?
- So many lies – and the liar who tells them
- Does science lead to secularism?
- Sunday Spinelessness - The first animals (modern analogs)
- WordPress visual editor shortcuts for Mac OS X
- eye-catching titles for blog posts
- Kronic, More than a Herbal High
- Projectile trajectories
- June ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
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June
- Don Brash: climate clueless™ to the core
- "Just So Science" - Nature Nanotech Knows
- No Penguin Café when the ice melts
- the carnegie hall hypothesis: practice makes perfect
- Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?
- Personal attacks on climate scientists
- Independent top-tier open-access biomedical and life sciences journal
- Plants in the water cycle
- Child abuse cases – the role of the expert
- The Triumph of New Age Medicine?
- Isoscapes - a Tool for Forensics
- The Climate Show #15: Michael Ashley and the ineducable Carter
- Christchurch earthquake, buildings and acceleration maps
- The larrikin lord returns
- Rugby World Cup Hype
- "Just So Science" - Chiron's Secrets
- WCSJ: The muzzling of government scientists
- A silver lining to Expelled?
- Kathryn Ryan Interview with Brigid Gallagher
- Risky business: insuring against climate change
- wonderful wordle: if my dishwasher had wings
- The mechanics of mass murder
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo
- The gas don’t work
- Follow the World Conference of Science Journalists on-line
- the moon is a poor prognosticator...
- Diabetes back in the headlines
- Wildlife Trade Myths: Flooding the Market
- Asteroid 2011 MD passes through the Earth's GPS satellite network
- Professor Hendy retires
- Historical fiction
- Sunday Spinelessness - Snails can be speedy too
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo
- Catch a fire (worst year since 1816)
- Incendiary – “junk science” in fire investigation
- Follow arsenic life science "live"
- NZ wildlife being pillaged by smugglers? - really?
- Dealing with Wingnuts - which way to turn?
- Learning from Even the Harshest of Critics
- Chocolate as a Medium for Science Communication
- Weekend Nanotech - The Inconvenient Ash
- "how do you know?" always trumps "were you there?"
- Al Gore: denial derails the democratic conversation
- Christchurch earthquake land damage background
- How do you Visualise a Conversation?
- The state of the ocean (dire)
- birds exist, so evolution is an incoherent theory...
- Galileo’s revolutionary contribution
- A note on readership, and a challenge
- dishwashers of doom
- Should we be rethinking the HPV vaccination strategy?
- Oxfam on food justice: clearheaded and admirable
- Sandpile physics
- Monitoring and Recording Archaeology in Canterbury...Again
- Sleep drink-driving
- Kaitaia's Awanui River in a changing climate
- Science, religion and respect for meaning
- Lazy old Garth
- The Press - Summary of Canterbury Earthquake Situation
- Agricultural commodity boom no good for branding
- Force, momentum and umbrellas
- A visible quantum object
- Marvellous scientific social media
- Tropic of Chaos
- gearing up for an olympiad
- Woohoo - The Most Trusted New Zealanders ...
- "Just So Science" - Technical Difficulties
- Protecting yourself against bullshit
- Sunday Spinelessness - The first animals (fossils)
- Some thoughts on book reviews (and the cat’s progress)
- Woo Sites Award Australian the Nobel Prize
- evolution according to futurama
- Early life (and trilobite eyes)
- Science Communication: Education or Appreciation?
- Rain mainly in the plains? Not so much
- A bit of Friday fun: the Galaxy Song
- Mac OS X Time Machine backups - a need for versions
- It was the bean sprouts! The veggie-burger disease revisited.
- The Climate Show #14: volcanoes, black carbon and crocks from Christy
- Marketing headache - an apology
- The Vulcan Laser
- Lunar eclipse essentials
- Troublesome Turbines
- Rebuilding on a rising tide
- Anti-Vaxxer Websites - Venues for Brainwashing?
- "Just So Science" - The Questioners
- Spongelab: game based learning
- An apple a day
- Seeing cosmic rays
- When is a Theory Really a Theory?
- A Better World Through Video Games
- Clarifying some myths in the history of science
- Perverting the course of justice – Facebook misuse
- Anti-vaccine "experts"
- engaging students effectively in science, technology and engineering
- Song of the Australian scientists
- The wind in the trees
- Attack of the Killer Glacier
- Why (some) people don’t trust science
- New Zealand Archaeologists at the 'Coal Face'
- Thoughts About Taniwhas
- The Value of Dissenting Views
- Crocodile Attacks
- Dr Evil's fondest wish may yet come true
- Back in the saddle, Orinoco crocodile facing increased challenges
- Diode Flavours
- Fibre lights me!
- "Just So Science" - The Solar Surfer
- The Christchurch / Lyttelton earthquake aftershocks news thread
- Introducing Waterscape
- Early history of science
- Marketing headache
- Sunday Spinelessness - Razor-back
- Generation Us
- effects of changing teaching styles on student learning
- Weekend Nanotech - Virus Tech at MIT
- Friday video: Building a dinosaur from a chicken
- First Light on Energy Efficient Bach
- Converting beliefs to “truths”
- An outbreak of crowdsourcing
- Key contradictions
- CERN traps antimatter for 1,000 seconds
- The illustrated McKibben
- Blood all over the place….
- Should children be sent home from school if they are not vaccinated?
- And then came the conspiracy theories....
- This GM is like Lasagna
- The internet in 2015?
- The 1080 debate
- How much water does NZ have?
- "1080 poison gets tick from report"
- Ideology and violence
- The (un)principled sceptic
- Mad, bad and dangerous
- Fingerprints & nanotechnology
- Ome'ing in on Disease
- Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist
- Physics shorthand
- Microwaved charcoal technology gets thumbs up from British science writer
- how homeopathy might (not) work in A&E
- "Just So Science" - The Stellar Sisters
- Painless science writing
- Sunday Spinelessness - Flat animals and biology's age of discovery
- Hansen in NZ: final roundup
- Scientific Process Rage (yep, we can all relate to this…)
- Students and Success
- How do you explain a city?
- Hotspots hit poor hardest
- Quakes and Quacks
- Death of a Brain Cell
- Drug wraps and Schlieren lines
- Cyborging aimee
- Philosophical sausages
- The worm from the deep! and other stories
- Virtual Archaeology with Time Team is going Live Now - Medieval Chapel
- A Perfect Moral Storm
- Growing as a teacher
- Why Waiology?
- Introducing a new blog: Waiology
- Literate and test-driven programming (in bioinformatics)
- Christchurch no More Risky than Wellington. But Does That Make a Good News Story?
- May ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- What Geeks can Learn from Gays
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May
- The veggie-burger disease?
- if pharyngeal slits turn into gills, why don't humans have gills?
- Is your computing desk well set up?
- Waking from a coma!
- Changes afoot at the University of Canterbury
- New fish species discovered on our doorstep
- Predicting the bleeding obvious (and getting it wrong)
- "Just So Science" - The Star that Couldn't Make up its Mind
- Schlieren imaging
- People talkin #5
- Grim news on emissions
- the sarcastic fringeheads
- American Imams supporting evolutionary science
- Post publication peer review - a new way of doing science?
- Sunday Spinelessness - Earth Measuring Caterpillars
- Low hanging fruit: efficient lighting
- Arsenic life - more criticism, formally published
- John Abraham: How to give good radio
- Space Archaeology and the Discovery of Buried Egypt
- New Zealanders are "Loose"
- Wet house, dry house?
- why are some chickens white?
- From science to ethics to action
- The view from on high
- A secular bible
- Treating Health
- "Just So Science" - The Science that Inspires
- Hansen’s parting shot: show leadership, John Key
- Am I an "Angry Atheist"?
- Trees and bees the future for our hills?
- Holy Hyperbole Batman!!
- twisting the truth on vaccination
- Confronting accomodationism
- The Climate Show #13: James Hansen and the critical decade
- What do you think is the most influential science/technology breakthrough?
- The science logbook
- talking about exaptations
- Hi-tech and creativity aimed at niche/niche a key to Kiwi future – Paul Callaghan
- Lifting New Zealand’s productivity through R&D
- Conflicting expert opinion (is it what it seems?)
- The Critical Decade: time is tight
- Back in the FTTH saddle!
- The Dragon Connection
- Changing Planet, Changing Health
- Sir Paul Callaghan: mapping our future
- another weird science letter
- Daniel Dennett on conflict between religion and science
- "Just So Science" - The Lady of the Night.......Sky
- another lovely biological image
- Sunday Spinelessness - Embracing point and shoot photography
- Fairy fly
- Listen to Paul, Peter and what's his name!
- Christchurch earthquake telethon
- TEDxChCh - TEDx on the Christchurch earthquake
- Doggie ERVs
- Visible signs of the rapture
- Visualising the New Zealand Budget 2011 with Treemaps
- 3 tweets
- The Magic of Reality for young people
- Keeping the serendipity
- On Lignite: Elder not better
- waiter, there's a fish in my cucumber!
- The physics of slugs
- There’s money in manuka honey, and trial aims to greatly increase it
- "Just So Science" - The Cosmos Wanderers
- Optogenetics: light on brains
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo
- Chill out with melatonin-laced brownies?
- NLM software competition (US-based applicants only...)
- Don’t drink the punch!
- Wegmangate: first blood
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo
- Life Without Oil
- "Just So Science" - A Song of the Universe
- Physicists on film
- It’s the End of the World as we Know it and I Feel Fine
- Milk defence mechanism looks for global play
- Endeavour readies for launch
- Universities - Central City or Suburban?
- Working on Mars
- Expert Witness - new forensic science book
- Sunday Spinelessness - The little guy
- Tonight's Photo: Tree
- John Key & Science
- A non-theist feast down under!
- "Just So Science" - Eyes of the Heavens
- Listener gets serious about sea level
- Star Trek - Inspiration and Obsession
- Big Dig Archaeology
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo: The Chase
- Hansen in NZ: first reports
- Paint
- Broken bones
- "Just So Science" - How Physics learnt to Teach
- Back-breaking work
- Merkel’s rush to renewables
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo
- Drummers from the HunChun Tiger Festival
- The chances of Royal Weddings arising randomly…
- Who are you going to call……well, a scientist actually!
- Debating Science - Is there a Place for Rudeness?
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo
- Suck this, old king coal
- Back to the futures forum
- Climate rap – scientists fight back
- "Just So Science" - The Clouds that Weren't
- Research to Reality - a personal share
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo
- Designer spin II
- Student DIY
- pink - not for boys?
- Aftershock tweets
- You still have to know how the tools work
- People talkin’ #4
- The Fate of Greenland
- Tonight's Wildlife Photo
- Three heads are better than one
- Is too much salt really bad for your health?
- The Perils of Pink Nail Polish
- Old Myths Never Die: Rhino Horn
- Sunday Spinelessness - Playing favourites
- Mother’s Day - "slightly more than half of everything I am..."
- How old am I: a new tool for forensic scientists?
- More Pied Shag photos
- Designer spin
- Supporting Jim: Saunders, Oram and Salinger on tour
- why geologists are wrong, wrong, wrong! about the age of the earth
- I wanna be a Pseudoscientist
- The new wizard of the west
- Another freaky medical case
- My first go with Votapedia
- What’s special about religious “knowledge?”
- The Climate Show #12: twisters, Olaf on ozone, and Google in the sun
- An Opportunity for Homeopathy
- Scientist as activist
- On the subject of phytoplankton
- National Network of Commercialisation Centres struggling to launch
- Working with Stone, Connecting with the Past
- Drafting proposals in the open – sketching out project ideas
- Piezoelectricity
- "Just So Science" - The Whanau that Learnt
- Auckland's lethal tornado
- Stunning video of STS-131 launch
- How do you find images for your blog articles?
- Climate change lectures in Auckland
- The end to herbal remedies in Europe?
- Educating Richard (or not)
- Pepsigate revisited
- Take-off - Pied Shag near Goat Island
- Collagen - the Biggest Con in the Beauty Industry?
- Climate Capitalism
- Superconductivity turns one hundred
- National Immunisation Week
- Defending yourself against Persuasion - the Double Whammy
- Brash in pocket
- The cost of SETI
- Old Blue Eyes
- No such thing as a ‘typical’ angel investment
- Sunday Spinelessness - All in the eyes
- on academic honesty
- April ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- "Just So Science" - How Saturn Lost his Ears
- Learning more about Atheists
- Stone Tool Artefacts & Simon Holdaway on Graeme Hill Show, May 1
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April
- "One of my dreams is to drive a virus-powered car"
- Elecmystery
- "Just So Science" - How the Horizon was Crafted
- Climate: The Counter Consensus
- "Just So Science" - The Ways of the Wind
- Exposing the pretense of Christian unity
- Debating Science
- Holistic ER
- Defending yourself Against Persuasion - Innuendo
- Defending yourself against Persuasion - Distraction
- weird 'science' letter of the week
- Climate Change Denial: Heads in the Sand
- Is there a role for science in morality?
- vision and change: biology education for all students
- Dr Woo meets Dr Skeptic
- Drafting proposals in the open
- Defending yourself against Persuasion - Reciprocity
- Adapting to climate change in Vietnam and the Philippines
- the misc-ience word cloud (apparently)
- Chocolate problems
- Pushing stuff with light: how Crookes radiometers work
- National Geographic has bought scienceblogs.com?
- Philosophical justifications for morality
- vision & change in undergraduate biology education
- Lest We Forget - Anzac Bay
- Four years on…
- Sunday sci-comm snippets
- The Differences between Men and Women
- Sunday Spinelessness - Incertae sedis
- “I was a Skeptic, but…”
- Happy Easter
- Something(s) for the long weekend
- Homeopathy - practical remedies to address it?
- Ernest Rutherford's gold foil experiment
- "Just So Science" - The Nation that Talked
- Answering questions on morality
- The Ethics of Homeopathy
- Changing the Ph.D.
- Legal highs: He who controls the spice...
- Ratcliffe coal protesters invited to appeal conviction
- Sir Paul Callaghan on sustainable economic growth
- Problems with philosophers and theologians
- Tea, Biscuits and the Criminal Reform Bill
- 'darwin's dilemma' - id in nz
- High-value manufacturing R&D review sure to cause some ripples
- Conserving Don Merton's achievements
- Alley’s documentary: upbeat and optimistic
- Wind farms in New Zealand
- The mother of all languages?
- Formative assessment
- Monday Morning Macro
- Should we abolish the 'best-before' date?
- More on the science of morality
- Sunday Spinelessness - The sight of a wild slug eating
- Return of the Climate Clueless™: there’s none so blind…
- a weekend funny...
- Scientific Snobbery
- Engaging the Public with Climate Change
- Peter Jackson introduces the world of the Hobbit
- Psychic Exploitainment
- "Just So Science" - The Hunter and the Bull
- Why did you choose to study science?
- Selling the family silver!
- The vaccination 'debate'
- The Climate Show #11: a trillion tonnes of trouble
- The New Zealand Innovation Ecosystem Map
- Rotating aircraft
- Peacock spiders FTW
- Crown Research Institute merger calls
- Panda Photos
- "Just So Science" - How the Kiwi reached the Edge of Space
- Political Orientations and Brain Structure
- Weird Tingly Woo-day
- When children start mooing - a letter to the editor
- Time Capsules and the 'Wow' Factor
- Professor Ronald and the forbidden fruit - GE apples and a New Zealand visit
- A ton too far (more bad news)
- 10,000 pounds on offer in young reader’s book award
- an open thread for science-y chat
- Should coke be cheaper than milk?
- Gluckman: base policy decisions on the evidence
- The wonderful logarithm (or blog on log)
- Introducing a new blog: Just So Science
- "Just So Science" - The Butterfly that Stamped
- Atheists debating Christians - What's the Point?
- Jim Hansen to tour NZ: dates announced
- Cool science makes itself fashionable
- Creatures of the leaf-litter
- Antioxidants explained
- Craig brings some clarity to morality?
- Bearing witness: oil at sea
- Global premier: First Orbit
- 50 years after Gagarin
- Bones: animal or human?
- Flower macro photos
- Foundations of human morality.
- Vaccination fear-mongering
- Sunday Spinelessness - Wolf spiders make good mothers
- Telling the whole truth
- "Knowledge is merely opinion." Storm - in cartoon and words
- People talkin’ #3
- Information overload regarding Fukushima
- Church rejects power of prayer!
- We won’t call it picking winners, we’ll call it focused effort – the next agenda for our science and innovation?
- Branson's deep sea adventure
- Limits of logic
- The billion dollar gap
- I’m on a break…
- Measuring sleep: The squiggles explained! (Part 2)
- Earth: The Operators’ Manual
- NZPA closure will hurt science coverage
- Lester Brown and the water lilies
- On Mothers and Motorways
- Geo-engineering techniques at a glance
- some thoughts on 'looking ahead'
- Christchurch Radio Personality casts doubt on Flu Vaccine
- What makes a great scientific talk?
- Letter to Hekia
- Carbon dioxide or methane?
- Another Blow to Men’s Health
- Routefinding the future: reflecting on the climate futures forum
- looking ahead: science education for the 21st century
- Something to celebrate
- Christchurch Update...the demolition list
- I hate statistics
- to the ridiculous (answersingenesis)...
- from the sublime (pz myers)...
- Energy at all costs
- New Zealand’s largest inventor network: A glimpse of our innovation ecosystem
- Fraudulent Bomb Detectors
- Advocating or explaining secular moral values?
- Sunday Spinelessness - The Entomologist who invented Daylight Saving Time
- The Roots of Bioinformatics in Theoretical Biology
- Video download and streaming options for Kiwis
- The best view yet of earth's gravity
- March ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- Sunrise photos over the Hauraki
- science education for the 21st century - an update
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March
- The Climate Show #10: David Suzuki survives tech meltdown
- Loud and clear
- What is Life? Another Great Debate
- 'Criminal Minds' Brings Archaeology into Mainstream News
- bullying - it's everyone's problem
- New academic visas for New Zealand
- Is this a Conversation worth having?
- Light fantastic
- Professor opts out of probiotic commercialisation route to concentrate on research
- The Galileo myths
- Compartmentalized learning?
- The influence of marketing on kids’ food preferences
- Interview with a Science Communicator: Helen Abbott
- Are there some new products in the pipeline as business manufacturing increases its R&D spend?
- The Great Disruption
- Umm, a Gummer and carbon nonsense
- A Puzzle for You
- Why there are so few scientists in politics
- inspired by science - the next stage
- Kiwi angel investors pony up with more money in 2010
- Beauty, mystery and science
- Feynman on appreciating things and other stories
- my mother said...
- Sunday Spinelessness - The rest of Vanuatu
- Wakefield, slime moulds and a short hiatus
- The Power of Research
- Talking the “CSI effect”
- Bangladesh: lessons in adaptation
- Five Signs You Might Be Wrong
- Correlation or no correlation?
- Sitting in Glass Houses
- Random points of interest from NZBio, two
- Christianity gave birth to science – a myth?
- Smelly analogy in cartoon of nuclear plant news
- Is it time to integrate medical and natural health care?
- can ducks count?
- Does the Media need Facts to Create a "Good" Story?
- Te Papa (got a brand new climate bag)
- Random points of interest from NZBio
- Remember a (World Meteorological) day
- Measuring sleep: The squiggles explained! (Part 1)
- Time will Tell for the Timeball
- What is Neurofibromatosis?
- The implausibility of reality
- People Talkin’ #2
- Health in Life
- Introducing a new blog: Priority One
- Science, openness, and conspiracy theory
- Book review - The Grand Design
- Hot: living through the next fifty years on earth
- Whats your March 20 prediction competition
- Mouth alcohol 2/interfering substances
- Clinical trials - New Zealand is missing the boat
- the discussion you have when you're really having a discussion
- A Perigee Moon
- Is atheism bad for science?
- My favourite place in New Zealand
- Sunday Spinelessness - Dragonfly
- Ken Ring & March 20th - let's get back to science
- Ken Ring: he’s wrong about everything
- Ancient books (or I'd rather be reading)
- What Archaeologists are doing in Christchurch - additions welcome!
- Skeptical Humour
- a pat a day may help keep the doctor away
- Whats on my iPad - dozens of apps reviewed
- Earle: everything in the oceans at risk
- WWW database servers on Mac OS X 10.6.x, part III: managing the web server
- New things!
- The Climate Show #9: Barry Brook, hot spots and melting ice
- Are newly evolved genes as important as ancient ones?
- Infographic: Radiation - what it does to the body
- NZ V.C. industry needs more money
- Myths within a myth
- Radiation confusion
- WWW database servers on Mac OS X 10.6.x, part II: installing the Perl modules
- Who keeps a real eye on the ‘space’ beyond R&D
- Cambridge on ice
- From a blog post to TV
- Let the wind blow (again)
- How to shut down a nuclear reactor
- Film cameras still being employed for tiger research
- Christchurch/Lyttelton Feb 22nd 2011 earthquake - questions and answers
- Science Horror-scopes: March
- WWW database servers on Mac OS X 10.6.x, part I: Installing MySQL
- More Power, Less Acceleration
- Speed of sound
- Americans call it experience, not failure
- Thank goodness for eBook Readers
- More from Katsu in Japan
- Message back from Japan
- Key’s only sharp arrow – as Minister of S&I
- Fibre optics and Earthquakes/Tsunamis
- Garnaut: no reticence on risk
- iPad apps - what's on my tablet
- Tsunami forecast animation & warning systems
- The mysterious centripetal force
- Mouth alcohol
- New U.S. universities V.C. fund a model for New Zealand?
- Theistic science? No such thing
- Sunday Spinelessness - Why we have bumblebees
- Make it a brainy week
- McLean’s folly and the climate clueless
- Ring of Fire - Animated Map of World Earthquakes (Jan 1 - Mar 12, 2011 GMT)
- What is your March 20 Prediction? Competition
- creationist 'report' writing: marked down again
- Mapping connections in the brain
- Ancient Aliens on the "History" Channel
- Earthquake prediction: Is GPS our best bet?
- Scientist on tsunami danger
- Whispering wind #2
- Weekend shorts (including Japan earthquake links)
- My Prediction for the Coming Week
- Should Scientists Communicate with the Media?
- Caffeine affects your sleep. No ifs, no buts.
- Printing a human kidney
- John Key should play the one card he has up his sleeve ……Minister of Innovation and Science
- Bob Carter: innumerate and irrational?
- The ethics of exploitation
- Garnaut update on climate science: avoiding high risks will require large changes
- Talking Christchurch Heritage
- Bessel functions
- Incy Wincy Spider climbed up the water spout...
- On an island: coping with sea level rise
- another form of donation
- Blogging for New Zealand
- Why blog about sleep?
- Introducing a new blog: sleep on it
- Quick high-tech sector review a precursor to R&D changes?
- Science Under Attack?
- Christchurch (Lyttelton) earthquake ground movement captured by satellite imagery
- How many samples do I take?
- Checking your internet sources
- Sinclair ZX envy
- My favourite fish
- What makes a bug super? Part II
- an ancient origin for the human eye
- Why Science Communication is Vital – Reflections on Professor Sir Peter Gluckman’s SCANZ speech
- Shake your berg thing
- Tribals ask to be poisoned first before tiger reserve established
- Ken Ring's predictions - what happens on March 20th doesn't matter
- Lemon: The New Miracle Cure!
- Land and forest owners should look beyond the log
- Acceptance of science – dangerous for some
- Have we got history, part II
- talking past each other?
- Life BBC documentary (2009) Prime 8:45pm
- Riders on the storms
- Sunday Spinelessness - Vanuatu jumping spiders
- And then came the psychic
- Science Communication Conference 2011 – Hearing from the Experts: Glenn Elliot and Dr John Watt
- Masters of Outrage
- Science Communication Conference 2011 – Hearing from the Experts: Professor Funk
- High tides and earthquakes - an interview
- Clueing readers in
- my humble little blog is found by the discovery institute
- Learning from America's Ken Ring moment
- Buildings are not Designed to be Race Cars
- Reflecting
- Learning from the Christchurch Quakes
- Books, music, movies - better bought online?
- Dr Kevin Trenberth reflects on climategate
- Blogimmuniqué - 2nd March 2011
- The Climate Show #8: Kevin Trenberth and our shaky future
- where lamarckian evolution might take our little furry fiends...
- Speakin’ out
- The Twilight Zone
- People talkin’ (open thread)
- MOONQUAKE: What Does the Science Say?
- NZ bioenergy is currently too much like an “enthusiasts club”
- Making sense of Ring gate?
- Infographic: the Grand Chancellor problem
- Liquefaction in a barrow
- Viclink to get a lean makeover
- Adapting to Climate Change
- predicting earthquakes: hedging your bets
- February ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- Whimsical Cat Photos
- Running rings around the Moon Man?
- Ken Ring can't predict earthquakes either
- Learning geared for the web age – OceanBrowser sails to the world
- Zero net emissions by 2050 – preferably sooner
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February
- The very error of the Moon Man
- [withdrawn] Some weblinks
- The cost of food
- New Zealand needs to wake up to bioenergy’s potential
- From “Grand Design” to “On Being”
- Lyttelton earthquake peak ground acceleration
- Forecasting space weather and capturing paper data
- my blackberry's not working...
- The road to ruin
- Sunday Spinelessness - My second favourite spiders
- QuaDror - could this be useful for Christchurch?
- Herald infographic: hard rock may have worsened tremor
- Beautiful peaceful images
- The connection between innovation and football – they both require balls
- If it ain't broke, don't fix it
- Disaster Victim Identification (DVI)
- my heart goes out to christchurch
- A human response to Christchurch quake
- Amid carnage media bears brunt of disaster
- The business of learning about business a state of mind for pyschologist
- Shaken and stirred: Christchurch earthquake Feb 2011
- A clearinghouse for #eqnz science reports
- Christchurch Earthquake: Holy ****!
- Seismologists on the massive aftershock
- Angel Association comes out with some ‘New Year’s revolutions’
- News from Australia
- Powerful Quake Strikes New Zealand
- Europe looks to bolder targets
- Slowdown in activity
- 6.3 earthquake in Christchurch
- LanzaTech keeps gearing up and seeks the holy grail of CO2 conversion
- Alan Turing documentary
- Amber Teething Beads: A Few Points to Consider
- Tiger News: Poacher Caught
- Why science communication is vital
- Helping people help themselves – a start up enters a new mind space
- Taking the census seriously
- Message to Otago Daily Times: homeopath is not a sound career option*
- a (shaky) date for your diaries
- Changing my mind at Webstock
- Sunday Spinelessness - Misshapen by love
- Lignite: dirty brown forbidden fruit
- Class size doesn't matter - Yeah Right
- Montana and a singular madness (wishin’ and hopin’)
- A Review of "A Big Discussion about Small Things"
- Getting grotty with insects (not for the squeamish)
- Have we got history?
- Introducing a new blog: Digging the Dirt
- The future of books – and Santa?
- Natural, sleep-enhancing product’s story a great yawn
- Curiouser and curiouser (history of science & research topics)
- The Climate Show #7: Box and Boxsters – the cryosphere special
- What makes a bug super?
- Pollen and ‘Bones’
- Uses of Liquid Nitrogen
- The Galápagos of the Southern Ocean - Part I: Bon Voyage
- How Narcissistic are You?
- China’s second wives, and its luxury goods culture – a couple of surprises
- On learning the sounds of a new (spoken) language
- Finland's fortunes in balance as Nokia opens Windows
- there are some questions that google can't answer...
- Here comes the flood
- Here’s one way to make New Zealand a visibly ‘smarter’ place
- On being philosophical about science
- Lessons from a drowning continent: no time like the present to invest in our future
- Drugs & children’s hair
- Physics discoveries
- Bikewise NZ
- Where’s our middle ground between laboratory and large scale?
- Guilty until proven innocent
- The Strange Powers of the Placebo Effect
- What's CERN twittering about?
- Institutional lemmings
- Let’s make IRL an engine for private sector R&D expertise creation says IPENZ
- Political stupidity
- Backstage at the Diamond Light Source
- Good science presentations - don't forget to chunk
- where do you find the ideas for your posts?
- Sunday Spinelessness - Murdering my darlings
- Why Pregnant Rats Should Avoid Apples
- Darwin Day e-card - but I prefer a tree
- The secular Egyptian protest a good start for a successful revolution
- The sock monster
- Overhyping (Nano)technology
- happy darwin day
- Something for the weekend: poles, podcasts and Chomsky
- End game was the start point for sleep enhancing drink
- Russian roulette with a rainforest
- Of use of the active voice by scientists
- What would you do with $500 million?
- Don’t Blame Me
- The bed of nails
- Stop producing middling business graduates, turn on the tech tap (IPENZ)
- Russell Doolittle on Life before Bioinformatics
- Fools gold: cranks can’t count
- helping students think like scientists
- Chocolate: The food of love - but is it healthy too?
- Shonky climate-change denial “science”
- Just as the tide was flowing
- Crank up private sector R&D to boost country’s wealth say engineers
- Reinterpretation “research” on climate change
- An immediate halt to CO2 emissions is an absolute necessity…
- Pseudo-science in high places
- Accessing digital legacies (experimental ones, too)
- How we found the Pink Terraces
- New Zealand forests still threatened, but not THAT threatened
- It's official - the world is getting fatter
- Homeopathy - press release from the NZIC
- Carbonscape’s global expansion will take place, but will New Zealand invest in its development?
- Rural broadband - safe hands win out
- Here comes the sun: 100% renewables by 2050
- Wool to give itself the once over and create a market-pull future
- A hymn for Darwin Day
- On alternatives to academic careers and "letting go"
- quirks of human anatomy
- Sunday Spinelessness - Hadda beetle
- A structured procrastination
- Double Employment
- The Renewable Revolution
- Thundersnow is go! (for weather geeks)
- The Museum of Life (Prime 7:30pm, Fridays)
- Scaling up workshop to hear ‘war stories’, provide conversation spaces
- Cheetah genetic diversity revisited
- Science Faction - a great story
- Celebrating Alan Turing’s life and achievements
- why do people blog?
- The Climate Show #6: Monckton and the iron in the ocean
- Summer means cicadas
- Proving the microwave charcoal technology the easy part…….now to sell it
- New York subway system as a stringed instrument
- The scientific study of religion
- Sic transit gloria Moncktoni
- Forces and other tedious stuff
- Climate Change and New Zealand's Future
- Enough good news……you’ve had your quota LanzaTech!
- January ’11 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- Tuesday's Bird Photos
- Singing in the rain
- New course commercialises commercialisation (Lincoln and Canterbury Universities)
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January
- attitudes towards teaching evolution in the (US) classroom
- Homeopathy proven? Yeah Right!
- When microbiologists go bad (or in praise of google alerts)
- Kinetic and Potential Energy
- The Air We Breathe
- Water jetpack has edge on Martin jetpack
- Sea cucumber: the slug that dispels its digestive organs through its bottom!
- High cost Germany shows how to succeed in exporting
- Converging evidence on climate change
- Sunday Spinelessness - Vanuatu scarab beetles
- Bird Evolution- From Archaeopteryx to Modern Birds (Part II)
- Transcribing a gene, free poster
- Science under Attack
- Paul Nurse: science under attack
- the improbability of an eye
- My second favourite fish
- A day of maps and visualisations
- Egypt has taken itself off the internet (updated 29-Jan)
- Another weight-based challenge
- Swimming with sharks
- New Zealand needs one place for everything innovative – NZ Institute
- Map of scientific collaborations, worldwide
- eBook “singles” – and the problems
- What's the weirdest university course you know of?
- Heart of the city
- Chemistry Humour
- Sci-fi interlude: The Twelve Colonies of Kobol (plus a little Goldacre)
- Canterbury Earthquake Update: Aftershocks 'exactly what we expected'
- Doubling or Trebling Tiger Numbers?
- Story marketplace makes its play in internet-dominated media space (allaboutthestory)
- Marie Curie Lecture Series – 2011
- Core blimey, Easterbrook’s at it again
- Unhelpful instructions
- Bird Evolution- From Ceratosaurus to Archaeopteryx (Part I)
- In a world of generic websites, bespoke solutions often a better deal
- Comparing blog visit statistics
- A Visit to the Homeopath
- Fighting global warming with old technology
- Before and after science
- Where’s there’s a wool there’s a way – $17.25m kickstart for renewed research
- Update - BMJ Wakefield series continues, fingers pointed at Lancet and Royal Free
- changing the culture of science education at research universities
- What If? – Science and Science Fiction
- Shoddy reporting on “god genes”
- The god gene – or is it a meme?
- Bob Carter: untroubled by hobgoblins
- McEwan on climate: at war with ourselves
- Sunday Spinelessness - Return of the spineless
- 2010 Greenland ice sheet melt sets new record, 2011 starts warm
- ScienceOnline2011 - tweets on blogging, networks and calling bullshit
- Measurement beats guesswork
- The Climate Show #5: on a hot wet green roof
- Capturing bodies - medical imaging data
- Being shown the money, MusicHype heads to America to make its play
- Cockles and Pipis, alive, alive-oh
- Certainty is useless – a scientific concept
- Why dealing with climate change is difficult (spinach tarts and ice cream)
- A History of Surgery on NZ TV (Prime, Sun., 9:35pm)
- On being a test bunny: Part I
- The nature of the science-religion conflict?
- Lamprey - the vampire of the sea
- rules of rational debate
- An animated map of Auckland's public transport network
- ShowGizmo to take expo app to smart phone world
- Peruvian glacier melt challenges US security
- Teach science understanding, not recipes
- Back at work... & a tuatara photograph
- Potato supply threat turned into crisp opportunity
- “Other ways of knowing” – some sense at last
- Fact or fallacy, a survey of immunisation statements in the print media
- the mind's eye
- Slippery devils – longfin eels
- LanzaTech’s clean technology ticks all the right boxes for rapid global growth
- Breast Dogma
- Wood and water
- resistance to science
- Easterbrook adrift: WWU geology dept issues statement on climate change
- Is social enterprise about to come out from the shadows?
- Seeking science-y reading?
- Culture and the scientific renaissance
- Stern at the frontiers of knowledge
- Quips from ScienceOnline2011
- 1Above: the world's first aerotonic flight beverage. Seriously.
- Don Easterbrook’s Academic Dishonesty
- Everyone agrees: 2010 ties for top temperature
- Die Another Way
- I saw dead people
- Electricity from water - the exciting way
- Casualties of Climate Change
- Diverse ‘T-shaped’ staff skills essential for user experience design company
- Scibloggers featured on Radio New Zealand
- RIP Richard Henry
- CES: Tablet hopefuls vie for attention
- Wine: good for superconductors, too
- Kahawai, the people’s fish
- Defence research to get the once over
- Positive news
- Safety First
- Queensland Flooding: "Australia's Worst Natural Disaster"
- Too many teardrops
- Haiti - One Year On, Still in Ruin
- DNA sequencing in one easy step?
- Sharing a chemical moment
- On homeopathics, and physics
- Canada's oil sands - navigating the rhetoric
- something old & something new
- New Zealand’s has an inbuilt design culture – well, maybe
- The moon and the ISS
- Eat up those carrots ...
- Skewed views of science
- Moving the earth for oil
- MSI’s Science Board to oversee broader research platforms
- Following ScienceOnline2011 from afar
- "It's a rain forest, expect rain..."
- Local book: The Story of the Dunedin Botanical Garden
- New Innovation Board has its work cut out
- Cephalopod Intelligence
- Fraser’s Penguins
- CES: NZ start-up takes out consumer electronics innovation award in Vegas
- Secular News Daily – useful source
- Wakefield's (bad) science: when measles isn't actually measles.
- pesky little hoppers
- The Four Pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution
- The Wakefield-Autism BMJ editorial revisited
- What the cat brought in
- Email test
- The Empathic Civilization
- CES: Favourite gadgets of the show so far
- Science Communicators Conference - February
- 2010 (amusing) crime round-up
- Mirror trickery
- CES: Toshiba unveils Android-based tablet
- CES: Dual-screen laptop sees you tapping on glass
- plankton & philosophy - and critical thinking
- New views of eclipses
- Theme Updates for Custom Menus and More
- Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Human Vulnerability
- CES: Subdued Ballmer looking for Windows everywhere
- Wakefield autism studies slammed as fraud by BMJ
- A hard road
- Warm year passing
- The Greenland Ice Sheet in a high-CO2 world
- CES: 3D TV without the geeky glasses
- CES: Tech industry plays catch-up with Apple - again
- World on the Edge
- de Freitas: politics cloud his understanding of climate science
- goldfish & duckweed
- Sink or swim?
- Overlapping Magisteria?
- Deriving “ought from is” scientifically?
- A short not-a-post about that Xmas card
- Easterbrook’s wrong (again)
- 'intelligent design is not creationism in any shape or form' - yeah, right!
- Graphic illustration should be part of scientist's skill-set?
- Albert the knowledge penguin on climate
- the human family tree gets even more complex
- No Storm on the Horizon
- Greenpeace: speaking truth to power
- FTTH Christmas - New Year update
- happy new year, & thanks for all the fish
- NZ cooling since 1909!
- December ’10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
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December
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2010
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December
- The 2010 Climate B.S. of the Year Award
- Challenge for 2011: Want to blog more often?
- Science and morality – a panel discussion
- A physicist comments on science and morality
- RIP: "Arch sceptic" Denis Dutton
- A philosopher comments on science and morality
- A carol for Monckton
- Evolution of Altruism
- Hard to Get
- Hansen: shelter from the storm
- Whatever happened to global warming, eh?
- Telling right from wrong – unreligiously
- Children of the future
- Spam Journalism #83
- Winter, fire and snow
- In Christmas, a denial
- The Carbon Forest
- Another local climate change denial meme
- A holiday message to my readers
- Agile methodology seems to suit kiwi psyche
- Wine and the Watchtower
- Tips for a new year of blogging
- A Christmas cracker for the cranks
- Science lessons from 8 year old children
- The UFO files - journalists try to keep straight faces
- technical hiccups
- Time for BIS2 to stop flying under the radar
- Good Science Writing or Bad Press for Climate Change Scientists?
- Not Just A Contact Form
- It’s that time of the year
- Holiday Wallpaper from WordPress.com
- Happy Christmas
- Flooding, Landslides Force Millions out of Their Homes
- A handy app for your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad
- Brian Cox Lecture – Science: A Challenge to TV Orthodoxy (Pt II)
- Kiwi culture to ‘look under the IT hood’ provides an overseas opportunity
- Jellyfish - not really fish, mostly jelly
- Is New Zealand's biz/collaboration isolation reflected in airline statistics?
- Find the Perfect Theme for Your Blog
- The Climate Show #4: Peter Gleick, the AGU, and climate sensitivity
- Apology
- Wellington start-up MusicHype scales up at world’s largest digital media conference
- Believing Cassandra
- Rate the readability of your blog
- Sunday Spinelessness - Updates
- ‘Tis the season…
- Fun with ngrams
- Christmas tree
- Something to ponder if you're a girl interested in science
- Wake Up, Freak Out – then Get a Grip
- Word-leading forensic science agency to close
- Symphony of Science
- Painted into a corner?
- Book review - The Poisoner's Handbook
- Sea Eagle Flight Sequence
- Brian Cox Lecture - Science: A Challenge to TV Orthodoxy (Pt I)
- Kiwi praetorian guards Google’s global network
- Mid-week entertainment - links and news
- NIWA’s new NZ temperature series: plus ça change…
- Hot, heat, temperature and thermodynamics confusion
- Super graphics make sense of a sea of data – (BIS2)
- (John)Key timing for Innovation Council?
- Real science – warts and all
- WordPress for Windows Phone 7
- The ineluctable etiquette of international diplomacy
- When science really doesn't mean science.
- Can you dig it?
- Some data from ATLAS at the LHC
- Seventh human kill in the Uttar Pradesh Region
- Bands and fans connect and interact through start-up’s ‘Appreciation Engine’ – (MusicHype)
- Popularising science - a word from the experts
- Who are you going to call first – the information clearinghouse? (NZ Institute)
- science & innovation in education - your thoughts, please
- Auckland District Court: a re-vamped winner
- WikiLeaks and climategate
- WikiLeaks and climategate
- Renewable Energy: The Facts
- Not so flash short fiction
- Keeping TABS so valuable, sticK’s forced to give it a plug
- Kidz Go Free…
- New developments for two companies.
- Experimenting
- Geo-tweets and population density
- Fun Science Related Gifts
- Plugging a gap in the innovation ecosystem – NNCCs
- 2011 – International Year of Chemistry
- a mouse with no mother
- Sunday Spinelessness - What makes a bee get busy
- Coates in Cancún: agreement a good outcome
- Climate change and conferences
- Date rape drink spiking: Nelson & London
- Bloomin’ marvellous
- New Theme: Toolbox
- Data visualisation - some of the best from NZ
- Coates in Cancún: Down to the wire
- NZYD in Cancun: hope remains
- The $10,000 Human Genome
- Occam's Typewriter - a new science blogging network
- Clear and present danger: Lonnie Thompson on the message in the ice
- nuclear transformation - at body temperature this time
- Third generation technology incubators cooking up better start ups
- Philosophical problems
- Meeting Paul Budde
- Coates in Cancún: ministers on the job
- You Tube but one example of collaboration around increased sharing of knowledge – OECD
- Better Tagging with P2
- The case for Ultra Fast Broadband’s still to be justified
- Monckton goes bananas
- Idiosyncratic exam questions - should they be allowed?
- Every little bit hurts
- ‘Inside Innovation’ recognises that we’ve got a lot of work to do
- Presence of observers prevents fur seal attacks
- Aussie wisdom
- ‘IT ethics’ is no oxymoronic conversation
- a young-earth creationist's view of flood geology (& much more besides)
- NASA: science shouldn’t be debated in media and blogs?!
- Pike River photo update: flames all gone
- Fibre in the ground by Christmas
- Interview with a Science Communicator: Gillian McKay
- MED can’t kill kiwi technology incubators
- Talking the talk? Time to walk the walk
- “She took me half the way there…”
- The periodic table of videos: Arsenic
- Full fuel fooling aim of food research co-investment programme (Plant & Food)
- What motivated the seal cub killer(s)?
- The “You Can’t Trust Science!” agenda
- This Week in Science History: 6-12-10
- Some days I'm ashamed to be a human
- Coates in Cancún: we have no more time
- ‘Plugging the gap’, thankfully, doesn’t just state the problems, but delivers some answers
- Sunday Spinelessness - The origin and extinction of species
- New Approach to Research by Pharmaceutical Company
- paradoxical frogs
- Price Myths
- Meanwhile, in the Real World…
- Saturday snippets
- We want to survive
- Christmas and Forensic Science
- Safe vaccine gun picks up the design equivalent of an Olympic gold medal – (Simcro)
- Corsac Fox Photos
- Fresh out: extraterrestrial life _not_ discovered!
- NASA and old lace
- Science Horror-scopes: December
- Avoiding the quarter-life crisis……parents, guide your children well
- Lecturers sitting in on colleague's lectures, and laptops
- the interface between secondary & tertiary teaching
- Farmers walk the talk, taking their own wool from a sheep to person’s back
- The Climate Show #3: Cancún and cooling
- November ’10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- Real Science in easy chunks
- Phishing Flowers
- Coates in Cancún: the stakes are high
- Can we, and how do we ‘supe up’ our innovation ecosystem? – (The NZ Institute)
- Make it Snow Around the World
- 900 of the best
- What's the future of TV in New Zealand?
- CRIs account for their income and spending and all that jazz (Statistics NZ)
- Warm oceans killing coral
- The Hippocrates Prize - 5000 pounds for a medical-themed poem
- Extremely important issues for NZ; but who will come to the debate?
- Cutting off your nose for Christmas?
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November
- Reflections on Coal Mining
- NZ’s largest single VC recipient picks up another international prize (Atlantis Healthcare)
- Windows Live Spaces Doubles WordPress.com Signups
- Cancer detection commercialisation could never be an ‘overnight’ happening
- Can Cancún’s COP deliver?
- Earth currents
- “Really chuffed” science prize winners to look for complementary skills
- Have a beek at this – giving tourists a flavour of somewhere they’ve never been before they decide to visit
- FTTH in Thailand, Malaysia
- I wish it would rain
- homos*xual necrophilia by a mallard drake
- Sunday Spinelessness - Wolf spiders
- “Other ways of knowing” purpose?
- Beauty in biology - green fluorescent protein
- China: ready to pay the price
- But what about why it's "no"?
- so who are these 'scientists anonymous'?
- The gas almost works (more methane)
- Analogue Computing
- stunning biological image #2
- …..and the winners are (P.M’s Science Prize recipients announced)
- Global Tiger Recovery Program 2010-2022
- fMRI Foundations Get a Little More Secure
- Have money…..will take on the world, 77 Pieces at a time
- What is the problem?
- Mapping a Day in the Life of Twitter
- Mass customisation and Wellington’s culture – a marriage made in heaven?
- Drug-driving and dribble
- Robot video - inside Pike River mine
- Some more photos from Hunchun
- Never mind climate change, what about biodiversity change?
- Weightless export succeeds in crowded internet domain name space – (iWantMyName)
- A victory for secular ethics
- Find a home for your research paper, authors, related papers - ask Jane
- (2) Degrees of existence
- Algae & isopods - a unique symbiosis
- Are cats smarter than dogs?
- Wellington’s (bad?) weather not the main reason for its IT entrepreneurship
- The Cost of Conservation: Tiger mauls two to death
- Warming at the walls of the “citadel of ice”
- Discover who likes your posts
- 2-D to 3-D and back again – making virtual real (77 Pieces)
- The Hitchens – Dembski debate
- Creativity in Science - Sparks of Genius
- Careers in science
- Sustainability’s like ‘beauty’ – go on, try and define it
- Crazy Creationists Unleashed #4
- Wallpaper lattice confusion
- Are CRI statements of core purpose customer-oriented enough – NZ Institute?
- Who is Top Author?
- New Theme: Pilcrow
- Melancholic
- The robot - can it help out at Pike River?
- Handle with care
- Google launches STEM competition
- Surely it’s too late to try to shove the Ka Mate genie back in any kind of intellectual property bottle
- astrology can help achieve pregnancy? um, really?
- The Myanmar Connection
- Coalmine methane explained (infographic)
- Monday Morning Macro
- Kiwi agribusinesses better be careful not to foot trip over ‘sustainability’ – KPMG report
- The joys of eBook readers – the Sony PRS-650 Touch
- Sunday Spinelessness - Another Angle
- In response to Garth George's dig at science…
- Desk Guide for Covering Science, and academic conferences
- Pike River mine explosion – geologists are here…
- OMG*
- Mobilize Your Blog This Holiday Season
- Symmetry, groups, and wallpaper
- Methane fingered in coal mine explosion
- Pike River mine explosion aftermath
- Should media only report facts and leave interpretation to the universities?
- Congratulations!
- Internet in Phuket: "Yes sir, would like a cigar with that, and maybe some vitamin pills?"
- New Features: Linking, Sorting, Paging
- Getting the science sector to fly in formation can only be good
- The Climate Show #2: Oreskes and the Merchants of Doubt
- Tiger Tips for Reporters
- Ken Ring can't predict the weather
- Professor Richard Quinn responds to exam cheats
- Entrepreneurs’ Challenge winners all have a biological look about them – how can that be?
- 'the uncertainty of it all - understanding the nature of science'
- How to be a denier #2: the truth is what we want it to be
- ‘Sustainable revolution’ could leave kiwi agribusiness behind – KPMG report
- “Mantrol” and the Psychology of Destructive Behaviour
- Tiger Summit Preliminaries
- Google's sneak preview and encryption features
- Secularism is important
- Singapore still the science all-star
- Great wildlife photography
- Proposals to virtually link commercialisation centres expected before Christmas
- Infinite Theme Styles with Custom CSS
- How to be a denier: lesson #1 (shrivel and die)
- Tinkerbell and the great propaganda machine
- I'm Offended!
- Learning outcomes
- PSA and Kiwifruit - the disease explained
- Now we have a better idea of the CRIs’ reason for being …… maybe
- Developing a business will “always cost you double what you think” – Piako Gourmet Yoghurt
- Clutching at straws
- Omega 3 and fish – what’s the latest advice?
- Here’s hoping that a damn good idea isn’t forced offshore
- Negative Resistance
- Open innovation platform’s time has come for New Zealand
- The perfect popstar
- Dawkins answers questions
- The Social Lens of Social Medicine
- Small World - NZ's a winner!
- What aspects of biology need to be explained better?
- bats and exam questions
- MacDonald’s to advise the UK Government on health policy
- Commercialisation network has some challenges to overcome
- Monday Macro- Trilobite
- World leaders pretend
- High tech manufacturing challenging in the NZ environment
- Telling right from wrong?
- More to Pseudomonads than the kiwifruit crisis....
- Every picture tells a story
- Sunday Spinelessness - My own ID challenge
- The great publication fiasco
- Pseudoscience Bingo
- NZ regions planning for climate change
- The Moral Landscape - An excellent read!
- Victory for Reason
- Threshold Concepts and Science Communication
- mount st helens as a model for the grand canyon? somehow i don't think so
- 2nd blood sample - going, going...gone?
- Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge – An Introduction
- Introducing a new blog: sticK
- Mouse-be-gone (-be-gone)
- Superior yoghurt creates new sector and basis of Piako’s business
- Prepare for business as unusual
- Friday morning video – Watching Packets Fly
- Without collaboration, world dairy industry couldn’t compete or innovate properly
- Scientism
- Merapi, volcanoes and cooling
- The Dangers of Superstition and Pseudoscience
- Electromagnetic Pest Repellent
- R&D spend by the world’s top companies falls as global recession hits
- Crazy Creationists Unleashed #3
- Island life
- a little exercise in critical thinking
- Size not relevant – customer service is what counts
- How long does it take you to write a science blog post?
- Fibre to the Home Council - Asia Pacific
- Sienna Latham on Alchemy, Women and Data Visualisation
- New Zealand Palynology: Into the West
- Our culture’s deeply embedded, but we can overcome our weaknesses
- What Makes a Great PhD Supervisor?
- Flash Fiction
- Tiger poaching thoughts again...
- Time Machine backups - some 'gotchas'
- You can't have too much of a good thing
- Biological control gets around insect resistance, set to take on the world
- Pipes and water pressure
- An introduction
- Introducing a new blog: Infectious Thoughts
- Why I have a platinum wedding ring
- We need more bang from our science buck says Treasury
- NZ glaciers holding their own (just)
- seven signs of bogus science
- We’ve trashed the earth, so let’s go party…
- Tuatara tuesday – sex determination in a warming world
- Into the crocodile's mouth
- Cloud operation provides ‘one truth’ for procurement
- The world’s biggest inventor network
- Science and Personality Types
- Tell it like it is
- Are beached whales and dolphins deaf?
- The3is in Three final
- A quiet day working on my photo website
- homeopathic 'vaccines' and smallpox
- Brave angels leave sharemarket in their wake
- The word innovation has little meaning
- NZBIO 2011 Student Scientific Poster Competition
- Some book ideas
- Yellowhammer Photos
- homeopathic 'vaccines' & smallpox
- Water has a Memory?
- So you think you're good at mechanics?
- Understanding the brain through controlling it
- Licking lignite
- Reforming education. Is NZ heading in the right direction?
- Science as a Creative Endeavour – part 1
- vaccination & smallpox
- Reviews & IV vitamin C as treatment for severe pneumonia
- La modélisation du climat
- Aircraft insulation
- Preparing for Climate Change
- Friday medley
- Friday Bird Photo: Poaka
- Vaccination Awareness Week Round-Up
- The ISS – a decade of growth
- Is Homeopathy an Environmental and Health Hazard?
- Introducing a new blog: molecular matters
- The weird ways of reptile reproduction
- homeopathic vaccinations - fail
- Time for New Zealand to focus on the health of our children
- Tigers- It's not getting any easier
- The Climate Show #1 (Astral Express)
- This Week in Science History: 1-11-10
- Liability and GMOs
- For those interested in science writing or journalism
- Immunisation, then and now
- “I’m not a Scientist but …”; Dissection of an antivaxxer’s argument
- Crazy Creationists Unleashed #2
- Under African skies
- Materialism
- chelation quackery around vaccination
- Unconventional projectiles
- A Side Benefit of the ‘Flu Vaccine – Reduction in Heart Attacks
- A Side Benefit of the ‘Flu Vaccine – Reduction in Heart Attacks
- Crime of the century
- If presenting a claim on a popular issue …
- New Zealand Palynology: Look to the East
- 5 ways to gain a lover
- Your science in seven words
- Spring means ducklings
- Precautionary Principle & Biodiversity Thoughts
- on polio
- Cell phones, Electromagnetic Radiation and cancer
- Democracy under strain
- What's cooking at the LHC?
- October ’10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- Science Horror-scopes: November
- Gene patents, an amicus curiae
- Monday Morning Macro- 1 November
- Anti-Vaccination In NZ
- The human mind – a history
-
October
- Sunday Spinelessness - Gymnast
- "killer neandertals" - does this one really stack up?
- Writing tip - avoid promoting particular booksellers…
- Buffoons in arms: Goddard joins Monckton at SPPI
- A simple change determines male vs female organ development in flowers
- Fainting kittens - feline myotonia congenita?
- Blood alcohol 2nd sample – will it be lost?
- A daylight conundrum
- yes, we have some bananas
- Friday tabs
- Today's crocodile photo
- Outtasite (Outta Mind)
- Friday morning video - Powers of Ten
- Check out those climate change claims on the internet
- One thousand genomes deep
- Interview with a Science Communicator - Sophia McKay
- Vaccine promotion - the medium matters too
- Torea-pango - Oyster Catcher Photos
- What a waste(land)
- Innovation just a "buzzword"
- Sound proofing by closing a door
- Vaccine Awareness Week
- This Week in Science History: 25-10-10
- sounds of biology
- Crazy Creationists Unleashed #1
- Chasing the early morning light
- Waking up to morality
- Open Laboratory submissions close in a month
- Aussie support for GM slips slightly
- Wireless versus Fibre
- Journalism in the age of data
- Tuatara tuesday – an iconic parasite for an iconic species
- Electrical Noise
- Re-setting Science and Innovation for the next 20 years
- Tuesday Morning Crocodile Photo
- The Climate Show: Beta 1
- Another one bits the dust: Goodbye Walkman
- Back in Judy’s jungle
- Paul Nurse on 'anti-science doubters' and the blogosphere
- Arctic report card 2010: a one-way trip to warming
- Four signs of a stroke
- Cooking with Alcohol
- A year of Sundays
- vaccination in the classroom
- The Flooded Earth
- Gadget that tricks brain into thinking a plain cookie is a chocolate cookie
- The Worm in the Apple
- How Kiwi know-how can save the world
- Pendulum mayhem
- Gamblers Rewarded by Near Misses
- Can the “supernatural” be of any use?
- Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing shortlist free to read
- How fast to shake to get dry? Science answers...
- Brilliant photos of small things
- The collapse of both bees and scientific independence.
- Sticky Milk Powder
- Are ebooks taking off?
- Mac OS X dreams
- The man don’t give a….
- Critical mass or is mass critical?
- The3is in Three is Back
- Bird photos for today
- Science and the New Zealand Public
- Some pesky delusions
- The healthcare irony
- Who cares about New Zealand’s waistline?
- another resource about critical thinking
- Diffraction
- Gone for good: Arctic Ocean ice free all year by the 2040s?
- This Week in Science History: 18-10-10
- From Smoke to Mirrors
- A Skeptic’s Perspective – Repost
- Why we deny climate change
- Sunday Spinelessness - Blog them and they will come
- A dot in space and chromosomes
- A hot bed of germ-y journalism (aka germs on gadgets)
- Five years (threnody for Arctic sea ice)
- Quick e-journalism tip: to copy the text not the spam link…
- I’ve been wrong before
- inspired by science
- Friday video: not on the Ark - (intelligent* and interesting) plants
- A challenge!
- Attitudes will change. Life will get better
- Complexity and Health – A Rant
- Find transcription factor motifs in genomes better: add histone acetylation data
- Maths and Physics
- Your computer is the enemy!
- Ka Pai Kakariki
- This Week in Science History: 11-10-10
- Hungary's red sludge explained
- Lanzatech makes the 2010 Guardian Cleantech 100
- Waving, not drowning (yet)
- Paul Henry's last (decent) act
- A glimpse into the insanity files
- Science in the House? (Folate supplementation)
- New Zealand science and science education policy news
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Kaiapoi, PtII
- The Zen of Open Data
- Money (that’s what I want)
- Dealing with random things
- Tuatara tuesday – Spring fever
- What not to say to someone who is being stalked
- Quality control and contestable funding
- Tight at the top as polls set to close
- How the contraceptive implant works (infographic)
- lady gaga in the lab?
- Gambling with nature’s tolerance
- Avoiding Stalkers on the Internet
- Scientific misconduct and skepticgate
- a novel take on a fairy tale
- Sunday Spinelessness - A leaf veined slug
- Don’t forget to vote!
- Chemical-free alternatives (as seen on TV3)
- Wegman investigated for plagiarism, “skepticgate” looms
- Scholarship exams - answer the question
- NIWA v Cranks 4: Shoot out at the fantasy factory
- Breaking away – an interesting case study
- Friday fare
- stunning biological images
- Fixing the Sky
- Breaking flies
- Friday morning video – Touchable Holograms
- Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Kaiapoi, PtI
- Finding platypus venom
- a good example of thinking critically
- The smart tap - the plot thickens
- A two bird race
- Backups, part I
- Quantum computing
- How fictional is fiction?
- How to make graphene 101
- New Royal Society fellows named
- Sam Harris on The Daily Show
- London calling
- So you're missing 10 genes, no big deal!
- Days of future passed
- Chauvinistic ethics?
- Graphene grabs physics Nobel
- rolling brown stuff
- Move over – old fellow!
- 2.5 or 2.2 percent?
- Anyway, anyhow, anywhere
- Hawking’s grand design – lessons for apologists?
- Medicine Nobel for IVF
- This Week in Science History: 4-10-10
- Tuatara tuesday – how cold is too cold for a tuatara?
- How Building Standards Have Changed
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month Plug
- Arrested moral development.
- engagement techniques for teaching evolution
- Thoughts towards a human brain neural connection map
- Sunday Spinelessness - How the aphid got its blush
- Like being savaged by a dead sheep (again)
- Spam Journalism #81
- It won't be by taking sugar pills…
- Got myself arrested
- The sound planetarium
- The gentle robot
- Let there be light
- Marsden 2010: Levels of funding and success rates fall
- Sciblogs Year 1 - blogging up a science storm
- No pressure – 10:10 on the button
- September ’10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- October Science Horror-scopes
- The Climate Connection
- Friday morning video - Journalism In The Age of Data
-
September
- Anyone for 10/10/tennis?
- How do I look?
- So what is an API and why does it matter that Trade Me just released one?
- When a glacier ruptures
- Treating statistics sensibly
- Wegman Report’s “abysmal scholarship” revealed
- Anniversary day for Code for life
- further ruminations on writing an essay
- Are Kiwis easily conned?
- Any Brits abroad here?
- For example...
- Not about Einstein
- Choosing an algorithm - benchmarking bioinformatics
- Walking back to happiness
- "Why do you have all these weird toys?"
- Dimensional analysis
- Breast Cancer Thermography – Good, Bad or In-between?
- Pick the Nobel winners and win
- Climate action: the moral dimension
- Gluckman on a year as Chief Science Advisor
- A falcon’s eye view of flight
- Update on 10,000 genomes and tasmanian devils
- evidence supporting an hypothesis of crank magnetism
- Where do good ideas come from?
- Marsden grant takes microbiology to the extreme
- LyX for free word-processing
- This week in Science History: 27-9-10
- Bjorn Lomborg on climate change
- Check out your ancestors
- Hide’s Aussie holiday: warming up for Carterist science’s new consensus
- the specialities of mad scientists
- Sunday Spinelessness - At last a bug
- Local documentaries: NZ bats, Dunedin stadium and 1080
- A flea in the ear
- Rees: scientists are citizens too
- Lazy Saturday videos
- Apple tip: kill Flash in Safari without quitting Safari
- $60 million in Marsden funding - some highlights
- Wake the world
- Windy Hamilton
- the great tree of life
- Moon Landing Humour
- Why don’t kids eat veggies?
- Varmus on writing, Autism, infographics, NCEA, cartoons and much more
- Opening up [I think]
- All around the world
- Nature online digital edition, with 3 month trial
- Tropical ice land: climate change hits Peruvians
- The Career Session, Part III
- Trust the experts – if they say what we want
- Driven to Drink
- Is obesity contagious?
- Quantum finance
- a cultural divide
- Career paths, redux - the academic research career is the exception
- Monckton: the final slapdown
- The politics of failure/the failure of politics
- prized science
- The Career Session, Part II
- House by the sea (not a good idea)
- Tuatara Tuesday – Stephens Island
- Clever lenses
- The Career Session, Part I
- A scientific consensus on human morality
- Descent into a boiling volcano crater, and puffing smoke rings
- Ask me why
- science & cooking - quite similar in some ways
- I've had a sex change, am older than I am, but write happily most of the time
- "Crazy Chemist" fiasco
- Sunday does well on high-dose vitamin C
- This Week in Science History - 20/9/10
- How to teach elementary science - chicken feet first
- Tiger Blackmarkets Part I
- Sunday Spinelessness - Throwing pesky males off the scent
- Double dipping: It’s grim up north #3
- The Real Problem
- The best places to read
- Pressing the Submit Button
- Rain, sleet, snow, music and science blogs
- Seal level rises
- People get ready
- Auckland - Huawei Broadband Summit 2010
- Shelter from the storm
- Software Freedom Day[s] are here!
- Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind
- Friday morning video – Rain tables and gumboots
- Awaiting an "Australia-sized" storm
- Autism - looking for parent-of-origin effects
- The Weather of the Future
- more on 'sweet poison': aspartame - truth vs fiction
- The academic poster
- Physicists
- Vitamin C on TV
- Mind change – a moral choice?
- Mind change – a moral choice?
- May Contain Strokes…
- Can the weather cause earthquakes?
- Measuring the speed of light
- retail therapy better than s*x?
- Where will science be in 30 years?
- Thanks, Kermit: Frogs inspire new antibiotics
- Interview with a Science Communicator - David Winter
- How do we reverse New Zealand’s decline in global competitiveness?
- Crunch time in Bisphenol-A "debate"
- conspicuous facultative mimicry in octopuses
- Why are eggs egg-shaped?
- A plethora of parasites
- Tuatara tuesday – its not a dinosaur, OK?
- The Road To the Fire
- Putting the IPCC in its place?
- Embryos are held together by Rubber Bands.
- The Snows of Ruapehu
- A Fur Seal Interlude
- The mathematics of war
- Monday miscellany
- The answer, my friend…
- GeoNet web traffic plotted against aftershocks
- Monday Morning Macro- Orbweb Spider II
- This Week in Science History: 13-9-10
- Mapping modern science
- Most pointless use of an infographic (possibly ever)
- sunday snippets
- sunday snippets
- Take a peek at Pukaki’s climate history
- Sunday Spinelessness - Harbingers of spring
- New Zealand Conservation Week
- An unnecessary being?
- Interesting bitties: different alphas, plastic to oil, drunk voles and a fry
- Friday "movie"
- discussing death
- Pity the poor PhD student...
- Friday morning video - Asteroid Discovery From 1980 - 2010
- Paint it bleak
- Science, bloggers, activists, and science as "the one true global culture"?
- Gene Futures - Kathryn McRae
- What is matter? What is materialism?
- Canterbury Earthquake - first flyover of fault trace
- Six months of seismic activity in under a minute
- What's With Those Aftershocks?!
- preparing for scholarship exams
- McKibben’s long and winding road
- Neurological shorts
- Cedric the Tasmanian devil dies of Devil Facial Tumour Disease
- Liquefaction Explained
- Two Christchurch quake animations
- What Lies Beneath the Canterbury Plains? A Fault Revealed
- Earthquakes and Polarized light
- The “inconsistencies” of Chris de Freitas
- Science-y reading and open book thread
- Interview with a Science Communicator - Matt Benton
- New science blogs in New Zealand
- The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice
- Hand drawn chart of aftershock intensity
- Christchurch's liquefaction (infographic)
- Blogimmuniqué - comment policy
- Initial Thoughts on the Canterbury Earthquake
- sweet poison?
- Haiti: 230,000 Deaths. Canterbury: 0 Deaths. Why? Canterbury Earthquake (Pt I)
- Back from China, some quick tiger notes
- Simon Singh & Prof. Ernst - The Truth About Chiropractic Therapy
- Irrelevant physics
- This week in Science History: 6-09-10
- The Grand Design – neither God nor 42
- What happened under Canterbury yesterday morning
- Mapping quakes in Canterbury
- New fault surprises scientists
- Sunday Spinelessness - Pollinators of Vancouver 2
- a genetic window on marsupial evolution
- Canterbury Earthquake
- Earthquake, South Island, New Zealand
- Follow Science Online London, on-line
- Long way around the sea
- beery bladders & other oddities
- Interesting bits: starving to stay awake, and an LCA on Li-Ion
- Going to the Dogs...
- Why visualise data?
- Introducing a new blogger: seeing data
- Friday links
- From the Frying Pan into the Flood: Pakistan's Worst Natural Disaster Unfolds (Pt II)
- Earth and Moon from Mercury
- legionella - an intracellular pathogen
- Crazy science letter of the week part 13
- Conferencing
- The Death Star: BBC Horizon (1/5)
- From the Frying Pan into the Flood: Pakistan's Worst Natural Disaster Unfolds (Pt I)
- Introducing a new blogger: Shaken Not Stirred
- Are you descended from Neandertals?
- Welcome PLoGs
- The Challenge of the Human Brain
- Bjorn again: Lomborg’s convenient change of heart
- GoPubMed - PubMed browsing using ontologies
- August ’10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- When a flip-top head would come in handy
- picking out the drunks, and other interesting tales
- Major newspaper opts for science blogging
- Let us introduce ourselves...
- The Quadruple Squeeze
- Fallout from Hauser affair spreads
- Who blogs on what, and why
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August
- IPCC report: done well, could do better
- caterpillar drool enhances plants' calls for help
- The Joy that follows Sex!
- Introducing a new blog: Southern Science
- Dictionaries, the OED, and what do you use?
- A lesson for NZ critics of climate science?
- The secret migration
- Questionnaire
- Nicholas Stern to present Robb Lectures
- Time to ring some changes
- X-rays & ouches
- Sunday Spinelessness - New Zealand's GIANT Sprintgtails
- Origins of the tree of life (re-post)
- Making Adult Stem Cells pluripotent
- Report clears IPCC head Pachauri, UK paper apologises
- how a fungus avoids a plant's immune system
- How does science work?
- One oscillation plus one oscillation equals how many?
- The southern lights
- Ramping up renewables
- Quotable lines
- #SciFoo lightning talk [Reloaded] – Part 3
- #SciFoo lightning talk [Reloaded] – Part 3
- #SciFoo lightning talk [Reloaded] – Part 3
- Halt to funding new stem cell research in the USA
- The myth of the noble scientist
- Reflections of a Sound
- Not as Good
- Heading back to China
- Coiling bacterial DNA
- RIP: Sir Graham Liggins - an 'outstanding medical scientist'
- Why the Caster Semenya sillyness makes me so angry
- Auckland through the years (infographic)
- The heart of PZ Myers
- After NIWA, God?
- our lives with dogs, & other interesting reading
- Sensitivity, specificity and predictive power
- Keep right on to the end of the road
- Building Materials That Kill Bacteria
- Cooking: where science and art already meet
- Tumbling dice
- Exploring the Exposome
- fungal parasites & zombie ants
- Mid-semester break
- Vitamin C, swine flu, media, lawyers
- In the Beginning- Abiogenesis
- Clash of the anecdotes on vitamin C
- Is medical physics worth the cost?
- Science blogging aggregated and streamed
- the scientists of tomorrow, today
- Marc Hauser replies – acknowledges mistakes
- Hauser misconduct investigation – Full text of Dean’s statement
- How the media lost interest in Climategate
- Tuatara: one species or two? (re-post)
- Friday’s dust
- All things pooped
- Challenged by Carbon
- Unvaccinated and bizarrely proud of it
- Good science speaks for itself
- Sins of omission in 60 Minutes 'miracle' story
- Quigley's big stand: the full speech
- A top programme - Media7's Spotlight
- Bed bugs make a comeback (infographic)
- A booster falls
- cat behaviour explained
- When warming burns…
- Fallacy of Fine Tuning
- Sunday Spinelessness - The Pollinators of Vancouver 1
- NIWA v cranks 3: the economics of truthiness
- oxygenated food for the brain?
- Computer models
- Just trying to put the punk back into punctured lung
- Picking Winners?
- A selection from Lord Robert Winston's 12 aphorisms about science
- How many ways can you spell QUACK?
- FTTH Cost Benefit Analysis?
- #SciFoo lightning talk [reloaded] – Part 2
- Cool for cats
- a solar salamander
- From 500 to zero- where are the Cambodian Tigers?
- Zoom on Supernova 1987a
- Rumble in the Kermadec trench
- Climate data (yes, again)
- A desperate plea to be noticed?
- Looking for a book to read?
- The science of climate change - Australia weighs in
- Reprise #3: the value of memory
- NIWA v Cranks: Update one
- but surely if it does no harm...
- Media7 Spotlight on Science and Technology special
- Monday Morning Macro - Jumping Spider
- When asses go to law
- Is Acupuncture Worth a Punctured Lung? or Does the Risk Out Weigh the Benefit?
- A stormy future?
- On fire inside a snowball
- "Every contact leaves a trace..."
- MMS - continued health claims for an industrial bleach
- Opinion: Wanting to "resolve" (climate) science with legal games...
- Sunday Spinelessness - Peripatus!!!
- [Open] Science Sunday – 15.08.10
- Farming’s future in NZ: adapt or decline
- Reprise #2: Sixty Symbols
- A sympathetic take on Marc Hauser and the “scientific misconduct” issue
- Lester Brown: Russian heat hits world grain supplies
- Friday's Factoids and Quirky Quotes
- Fire and rain
- Chemical attraction? (re-post)
- Nature's light show (infographic)
- #SciFoo Lightning talk [reloaded] – Part 1
- Aussie bid to boost science literacy, engagement
- The smart tap
- Ice on windows
- Know the history of your field, be it science or pottery
- Australia and New Zealand Cooperation - the ICN
- A paper by Marc Hauser retracted – Harvard Magazine
- A brief history of science, part 3
- End of an era- Sony ceasing production of the 500/8 Reflex lens
- #SciFoo: That was worth the trip!
- A year on, a reprise or two
- Hackers, crackers, script kiddies and cyber criminals
- Round Numbers are Over Rated: Celebrating 191 Posts
- Climate change is complex
- NBN - To Be or Not to Be // UFB -Steady as she goes
- Solar Roadways: The Prototype
- Cold and humid
- Delayed Gratification = Success?
- A nice little tool for printing blog posts
- It breaks
- I'm back!
- More physics with aluminium foil
- Monday Morning Macro - Fly Pollinator
- “God of the surprises”
- Sunday evening reading: factoid, articles & video
- Blogging groups, lighten up and enjoy your niche!
- Sunday Spinelessness - In the news
- Looking on the dark side
- a brief hiatus...
- The UK's cloning conundrum
- Hansen in Norway
- A brief history of science, part 2
- Recognising good science bloggers and Big Blog Theory winners
- Real Quackery
- Back amongst the crocodiles
- Some thoughts on assessment
- Things to come: adapting to climate change in NZ
- Fit for Purpose?
- Pharmacy Customers Perception of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pharmacies
- Chasing the light
- BP's static kill and scientists' reactions
- Think yourself a genome poet and want to win 500 pounds?
- Biochar: looking better all the time
- what made me a teacher
- Randomness and Clustering: Is the Number of Twins in Timaru a Mystery?
- Somebody is wrong on the internet
- A Hoverfly Collection
- High technology tearoom
- It’s politics, not science
- Preserving endangered species - of gut microbes
- Monckton is a fraud
- northern rata - first it's an epiphyte, then it's not
- The Story Is in the Soil
- Infographic: the global warming 'debate'
- Crazy science letter of the week part 12
- Southerners should look to the sky tonight
- Human handedness – inherited or developed?
- A Favourite Bird Photo Selection
- Blogimmuniqué: Scientopia, a new blog collective
- CSI infographic – be amazed! (or amused – your choice)
- Epigenetics and 3-D gene structure
- CSI infographic – be amazed! (or amused – your choice)
- Drugs, driving and saliva
- Drugs, driving and saliva
- Lithium
- The roots of bioinformatics
- Goldbach's Conjecture Scatter Plot Deciphered
- Monday Morning Macro- Honey Bees
- What science are Australians doing?
- July ’10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- An history of ancient science in less than ten minutes
- This discovery is mine (for a little while)
- azolla & endosymbiosis
- Sunday Spineless - Looking into jellyfish eyes
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July
- Why do we need a National Broadband Network?
- After the defeat
- Put your trust in a computer...
- Loops to tie a knot in proteins?
- Obama’s failed climate strategy
- Who are we collaborating with?
- Suzan does a mini- Monckton
- how a little green ball of cells controls where it's going
- Count to ten
- The First New Zealanders and their rats
- Great sciencey watchables
- Engine oil and lubrication
- Rex and The Wrong Trousers - uncanny resemblance?
- 3D animation for teaching ecology and evolution
- Evolution of gods, morals and violence
- No energy for change
- FTTH Any News?
- To reduce or not reduce – that is the blood alcohol question
- To reduce or not reduce – that is the blood alcohol question
- What do you want in a Head-of-Department?
- Movements in the deep
- Go forth! Make friends!
- Is and ought
- learning in lectures is a two-way street
- Blood Alcohol
- Mid-week links and a milestone
- Newton's third law
- Who has the most bioinformatics scientists?
- Consumer Doctors
- Wobbling into the road after a night at the pub….
- Wobbling into the road after a night at the pub….
- Making the most of lousy book reviews on Amazon
- Mindless Monday
- Brownlee’s energy strategy: dig and burn
- Monday Morning Macro- Green Ants
- Is there a Biochemical Marker for Suicide?
- What science are we doing?
- The new science of morality
- dogs behaving badly
- Consumer brain-computer interface
- Sunday Spinelessness - A missed opportunity
- The Carbon Challenge
- Vitalism ideology in chiropractic advertising
- Technology advances, politicians hold back
- The story of the MacDiarmid Institute
- Fluctuations in Earth's magnetic field
- Four seasons in three days
- Science, faith and limits of knowledge
- arctic foxes in arctic winters
- Climate Conflict
- Biodiversity Matters
- Finding a “real” job
- Liability of scientific denialism to political conservativism
- Killing Me Softly…
- Beyond Preaching to the Choir
- Beating the creationists at their own game?
- Interview with the Science Communicator
- Benoit Mandelbrot - fractals and the art of roughness
- Aaaarrrhh first year
- Blogimmuniqué: Tracking the science blogosphere
- from elephantiasis to sperm competition
- Stephen Schneider 1945-2010
- Evolution and the Holocaust
- giant scrotal elephantiasis
- Taser fuss
- Taser fuss
- Best science apps for the iPad
- All kinds of trippy goodness - food as scanned by MRI
- Unexpected Prime Number Breakthrough
- Infra-red and heat
- When ideas have sex
- Life on the building site
- [Open] Science Sunday – 18.07.10
- New Zealand: UFB - Australia: NBN
- Sunday Spinelessness - Behold, the Future Worm!
- Scientists can sue if not happy with funding priorities??
- the implausibility of possum peppering
- Walking with Rex
- Minister of silly talks
- Scientific article download costs
- The $3 Shop
- growing up with science
- The Risky Business of Hunger
- Friday photo, links and video (16th July 2010)
- Framing the post
- Look after your graduates
- Exoskeleton has shades of the Martin Jetpack
- What famous writer do you write like?
- Support John Abraham against Monckton’s bullying
- Support John Abraham
- So now you know…
- SolarAid
- LanzaTech Secures New Funding
- Honey’s anti-bacterial properties found?
- Peak Oil, peak platinum, peak physics
- Miracles: What Do We Mean?
- Genomics tidbits
- Crazy science letter of the week part 11
- Vinod Khosla's TechNZ keynote
- Eco-friendly vs appropriate technology
- Ways of not knowing
- Temperature-induced hearing loss
- Monckton: still digging for failure
- Man-made milky way shines through Japanese metropolis
- Describing your research - soundbites from Wellington
- Yuk physics
- Tigers... going, going...
- NZ ETS passes the Kyoto bill to our children
- of octopodes & clever horses
- Fat Chance of Fat Tax
- Nanorods, Sauvignon Blanc win out in science funding round
- In which I make an excuse, but put out a suggestion
- Intelligent Buildings?
- It’s time for New Zealand to start taking obesity seriously!
- An epic win for New Zealand innovation
- How the transistor took over our lives
- The changing face of science communication
- Climategate: the missing context
- Sunday Spinelessness - Love and deception in Vancouver
- The scale of cellular life and compacting chromosomes
- the skills of critical thinking
- Scienceblogs: now less to aspire to?
- For fireflies, getting the girl requires team work
- Friday links
- are octopuses really psychic?
- A new journalistic fiction
- Hands on science
- First step of PepsiCoGate is over
- A regular climate science podcast
- Describing your research - soundbites from Palmy
- Science bite: Longevity gene study has flaws?
- Climategate – Journalist withdraws and apologises
- do you mind? (brain, meet brian)
- Climategate’s final fizzle
- Describing your research - soundbites from Auckland part 2
- What a year on Earth really looks like
- In which I join the 'hello readers!' meme
- Scienceblogs adds PepsiCo-sponsored blog, sparks debate
- ANZICE Part 5: Policy Interface
- Under Milk Woodford
- Deep-sea critter madness: new species, new photos
- The case of the blue mozzarella
- Making room for faith in science?
- Daily Fail attacks experts
- positive allometry & the prehistory of sexual selection
- The taxonomic affinities of Big Bird
- SciCon 2010 – well worth it….
- SciCon 2010 – well worth it….
- Web browsers: power tips for Safari users
- Space geekiness: a lecture
- Describing your research - soundbites from Auckland part 1
- Planck telescope's first full-sky image of the universe
- Boney lumps, linkage analysis and whole genome sequencing
- Climate Capitalism
- SciCon 2010 – well worth it
- SciCon 2010 – well worth it
- Trouble brewing
- Another gratuitous knock at SKY TV
- The UFB last 20 km.
- Where are all the common insects going?
- National bibliometric report released
- Getting straight on marriage
- Blogimmuniqué: who are you?
- kinky crayfish courtship
- The End of Evolution ...
- A new element!
- repeat after me - pterosaurs were not dinosaurs!
- Something for the weekend
- “Climategate” smears found false – Mann cleared
- Is there Something Fishy about Psychosis?
- Friday round-up: zombies, cats, embargoes, XMRV papers
- Agrofuels
- Describe your fantasy institute
- A seriously impressive tree of life
- June ’10 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
- It's cold outside...
- Describing your research - soundbites from Christchurch
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June
- Twas the night before… the ETS
- Group intelligence
- How Much Science Communication Is Enough?
- Ridiculing ridiculous science commentary
- We call upon the author…
- XMRV prompts media thought: ask for the “state of play”
- Describing your research - scientific soundbites from Dunedin
- Electric cars take over
- why an evolutionary image merits a 'fail'
- Texas GOP water platform
- Patience in experimenting
- Dangerous scientists?
- Mindbullets goodness: The Avatar Wars
- Can the Order You View Things Affect Your Opinion of Them? Or, To Make a Good Impression Ensure You’re Introduced First
- Monday Morning Macro- Cicada
- Book yourself into the NZ International Science Festival
- From the science blogosphere
- Crazy science letter of the week part 10
- another early hominin specimen, & other things to read
- [Open] Science Sunday 27.06.10
- Café scientifique — lost in translation?
- Straight Up
- Truth getting it’s boots on!
- Which is the greater crime?
- Basic fluid science on the space station
- Houston – You have a problem.....
- What you can do with 24 hours and a bunch of web geeks
- When art meets science - Wireless in your World
- the genetics of lactase persistence
- Last Chance to See…book review
- Last Chance to See…book review
- From baby food to global behemoth
- Weekend reading: The Wisdom of Crowds vs The Black Swan
- Arctic sea ice projections: 6 billion dead within a year (it really is grim up North)
- A question of expertise and credibility
- Defending the future: scientists take the stand
- a sponge makes the top 10
- The essence of physics
- Quantum memory improves (vastly)
- Brief interlude: spoon
- Sound bites on climate change science communication
- Crazy science letter of the week part 9
- Climate scientist’s’ register?
- Why you should look skyward on Saturday night
- Ravens and Empathy: The Role of Bystanders After Conflict
- Quote on exploratory research
- Royal Society publishing free to read, 1665 - today
- Claims on the electromagnetic spectrum
- Sceptics face yawning credibility gap
- Institutional blogs added to scienceblogs
- Kids – it’s OK to be different!
- When the rain comes…
- the camel's hump
- Ag science just ain't sexy enough
- Taking the Hot Air out of the Climate Change Debate
- ANZICE Part 4: Climate Models
- Whaling by the numbers (infographic)
- Twinning with Venus
- Media now only report on public ignorance
- Readying yourself for the exam: cram, nude rugby or what?
- Why New Zealand smokers suck the most (infographic)
- Monday Morning Feathered Friend
- Sunday Times apologises for “Amazongate” misinformation
- Why conventional astronomy is rubbish
- Avoiding grown-up discussion
- The Climate War
- Web browsers (part not-quite 2)
- contaminated dietary supplements
- Too Much of a Good Thing
- New evidence confirms Phar Lap was poisoned by arsenic?
- a follow-up on bleeding for the cause
- A competition for Aussie science blogs
- Sciencey goodness Pt I
- It never works when you need it to
- Friday reading - Legionnaires' Disease, human ash sculptures, and more
- How to build a [water] brain
- Still talkin’ (open thread #2)
- Are Vegans and Vegetarians More Empathic Than Omnivores?
- Meeting - Nature, nurture and you
- The fiftieth post
- Apologies would be nice
- In good health or not? - "natural health" advertising in newspapers, magazines
- The King will come
- The Sandhill Cranes of Mississippi
- Why we can't stop believing
- Conspiring against science
- Japan, the Galapagos Islands of the mobile phone
- Tuatara holds clues to human evolution
- The context doesn't change the laws of physics
- What is the (e) in your eResearch?
- Aspartame - is it safe?
- Who planted the bomb? Ask Fido ‘technology’
- Who planted the bomb? Ask Fido 'technology'
- pseudoscientific gambits
- Engaging Students – Ideas from the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol
- Alarmist con
- Oliver Sacks on Hallucinations
- Distorted internal body maps, anyone?
- What shall I blog about today?
- Web browsers (part 1)
- Terry keeps his clips on
- Kinect: Is this the future of video games?
- Book yourself in for a lunar eclipse (with quiz)
- Lament on the perfect fuse
- What the media doesn't want to hear (or print)
- Hayabusa space capsule re-entry
- Traveling for the Itinerant Conservationist
- Climate Refugees
- Space capsule touches down in South Australia
- Historic shuttle launch photos
- That Ben Goldacre fuss
- world blood donor day
- the tyranny of powerpoint
- 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…)
- Pollen from snot (not for reading at dinnertime…)
- evolution vs creationism: the 'discussion' continues
- Symbolic questions
- Thoughts on the experience of publishing papers
- Does Your Environment Determine Your Behaviour?
- Friday entertainment
- Dealing with “Anti-Science” Commenters on Science Blogs
- Autism genetics, how do you copy?
- 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
- University of Otago to limit entrants - your thoughts
- The Korean 'net: not what you'd expect
- Pseudoscience and anti-science nonsense
- Know a high-flying early-career neurobiologist looking for $US25K?
- 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
- Distinguishing scams (cartoon)
- 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
- Alcohol: Effects on Teenage Brains and Correlations Between Availability and Violence
- The Creativity Machine
- 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!
-
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
- 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?
- The Clean Industrial Revolution
- 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)
- 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
-
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
- 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
- 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
- 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...
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Summer of Stats - our world in numbers
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December
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2009
- December
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October
- Metagenomics-finding organisms from their genomes
- TVNZ's psychic step too far
- New Zealand nature documentaries
- Scientists need to be Entrepreneurs?
- Lack of Logical Career Paths...and PostDocs
- Auckland Skeptics in the Pub
- The Advertorial
- The Rutherford Innovation Fund
- The Open Laboratory - the best science blogging around
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September
- New ways of farming?
- Where's the harm?
- NZ's increasing academic shortage
- Don't Panic
- Skeptical, not cynical
- Sciblogs
- Something wicked this way comes
- The Blurred Boundary Between Science and Business
- Links I've enjoyed this last week...
- Cutting the landline - a progress report
- Shrodinger's tobacco mosaic virus
- Nature's data-sharing issue
- Peer Review Survey 2009 - the system's worth keeping, but could use some work
- Reflexology quickie
- Name-dropping makes you obnoxious
- August
- July
- June
- May
- April
- March
- February
- 2008
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2007
- August
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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
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This is the sort of article that deserves a followup from the media. Monkton makes claims that can be proved one way or the other. If the media is so focused on “balance” they should be checking out his claims and presenting their findings.