Archive

• 2013
  • May
    • Is it May already? Asset sales edition
    • If it saves only one life... oops.
    • It's a publication!
    • Sensitivity and consensus; theory and practice
    • Regulator rejects scientists' GM concerns
    • Interesting blog bits
    • New way to spread the word
    • What does electricity cost?
    • Why didn’t we see it coming?
    • perhaps the most inspiring graduation address i have ever heard
    • Big science vs small science
    • Black cat in a dark room – and the role of science
    • Strangling research in its crib [revised]
    • Series on tax: Part 2b – let’s experiment with explanations
    • Lightning Lab startups ask – ‘where’s the money’?
    • The Price of Wool and Economic Growth
    • thought-provoking video, pity about the title...
    • Going feral in the weekend
    • out of the mouths of students
    • A New Zealand climate change pseudosceptic apologises!
    • Christchurch earthquake geology hour
    • [Open] Science Sunday – 19-5-13
    • At home with cats
    • One way to crack a coder shortage
    • It’s true: 97% of research papers say climate change is happening
    • Budget 2013: What's in it for science?
    • Bubbles no, resilence sure, market failure yes
    • Pseudosceptics are at it again – misrepresenting and attacking climate scientists
    • Can tax and subsidy incidence really be negative?
    • The bubble raft and lattice defects
    • Will Lord Winston's medicinal labelling bill get off the ground?
    • Spicing Up Fingerprints
    • "Arrow" Needs A Science Advisor!
    • Teaching Chemistry to Nonscience Majors
    • New Zealanders - opportunity to learn how our immune systems work
    • Series on tax: Part 2 – distortions and burden
    • Aviation regulations also apply to witches: brooms are heavier-than-air-transport aircraft
    • Chris Hadfield’s 5-month Space Mission in 90 Seconds
    • Breakfast
    • A plan for small nuclear reactors
    • “Rebalancing” and other morality plays
    • Rodney’s rubbish rides again
    • Events capital = big returns, right?
    • SkyCity revisited
    • More winning science reading
    • Interesting blog bits
    • aquatic apes & custard elephants
    • The Jedi Gap
    • The 10 most WANTED - New Zealand's conservation wishlist
    • Confusion and distortion – has global warming stopped?
    • EconTalk this week
    • The physics of maiming a child
    • National Science Challenge winners underwhelm
    • Stadium plans
    • Are the Laws of Nature Fixed?
    • Monday Micro - Is the new Saudi coronavirus a pandemic in waiting?
    • Hot Topic interruptus
    • Best cover ever – Space Oddity from the ISS
    • selling services on-line
    • Experience may not improve judgement
    • Dear Rodney Hide,
    • Is Nature Mechanical?
    • “Incontrovertible” is it, Rodney?
    • Housing fuelled consumption boom?
    • A debate about the patent system
    • A hierarchy of fleas
    • Caffeine in the news again
    • Variability in returns to education
    • Video coverage of astronauts’ return to earth next Tuesday morning
    • A tale of two storms
    • Bird photo for Friday
    • On the subject of patents
    • You know you are having a bad day when...
    • Daily Deals and Altmed Pseudoscience
    • Christchurch Stadium - regenerative or redistributive?
    • How Important is a 1st Class Degree?
    • That supply not enter the market
    • Careful where we lay the blame
    • What If Lecture on You Tube
    • Who can we really believe?
    • the gastric-brooding frog - not quite back from the dead
    • Don't miss the eclipse (hee hee)
    • A beggar’s market?
    • A beggar’s market?
    • EconTalk this week
    • Coming soon: NZ Climate Change Conference 2013
    • Which side is arrogant? (Thoughts on framing and debate)
    • Why you should care about Oregon
    • Treading the thin red line
    • see-through creatures
    • Adding a StatCounter visit count to your WordPress blogroll
    • tool use - even more widespread than you thought
    • Increasing consumer surplus through price increases
    • Two new Health Research Council grants worth crowing about
    • The morality of corporate takings
    • Email sales tool allows companies to ‘dress to impress’
    • Smartphone sleep apps
    • VUW 3 vindicated, Monckton complaint rejected
    • Don't stop thinking (and designing) about tomorrow
    • The sleep machine
    • Dairy stooges
    • Interfaith delusions
    • Safety preferences
    • Adapting agriculture to a changing climate
    • Measuring climate consensus: crowd-sourced survey
    • State-owned enterprises in the global economy
    • Measuring the influence of golf caddies
    • That pesky BRAIN
    • Lessons from the courtroom for scientists
    • STEM shortages
    • Time for NZ to Do The Maths – McKibben’s coming
    • Just for fun: theory of the firm 13
    • How did feathers evolve?
    • How to drought-proof New Zealand as droughts get worse
    • University of Otago Papanui turns 800
    • How Scientifically Literate are We?
    • More pseudo-scientific garbage from Tomljenovic and Shaw
    • science challenges & science education
    • The limits of philosophy
    • NZ Scientists already well engaged in the National Science Challenges
    • Who are we without the internet?
    • Not just for the birds- Archaeopteryx
    • Its great to be Number 1, but...
    • National Science Challenges - an insider perspective
    • The science of science advice
    • A boy and his atom feature in world’s smallest movie
    • Big and small
    • The tao of science missed by National Science Challenges
    • Info on the regions
    • Additional to the NZ Science Challenges
    • New Zealand's National Science Challenges announced
    • TDB today: Keeling curves and carbon millstones
    • Rage, rage against the dying of the ice
    • EconTalk this week
    • April ’13 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • National Science Challenges - Govt unveils the areas of focus
  • April
    • ‘The Unbelievers’ and science
    • Preferences for avoiding death
    • Ag Science hub to form near Christchurch, New Zealand
    • Social Entrepreneurs
    • Liquor traps
    • 50 years of "A Behavioral Theory of the Firm"
    • Are too many vaccines too soon harmful?
    • Get real, forensic scientists: the CSI effect is waning
    • The Scientific Method On TV
    • Monday Micro: living night lights
    • Social media for scientists
    • Disruptive Innovation in Education
    • A global warming hoax meme is born – in New Zealand too!
    • Why stereotyping scientists matters
    • Nature’s reproducibility effort: when to get data specialists on board
    • true facts...
    • A bigger splash
    • Friday follies – what happened to the “official AGW hypothesis?”
    • End of the line for genital warts is close
    • Interesting blog bits
    • The increasing value of privacy
    • What If Lecture on Cricket
    • More points on long-term unemployment
    • Which TV Show Best Demonstrates the Scientific Method?
    • Fiddling with census figures for religion in New Zealand
    • Monckton and the big waka
    • How big a lump will it find?
    • Where's Waynie?
    • When Gullibility Costs Lives - Fake Bomb Detectors
    • Can the surge in elephant killing be stopped?
    • Problemsourcing initiative gets the academic once-over
    • The Face of Kidney Attack Part III
    • What use is a graduate programme?
    • A frank (non-technical) discussion on current NZ macropolicy
    • "But a Study has Shown ..."
    • The beginning (of the universe) for beginners
    • EconTalk this week
    • Do entrepreneurs matter?
    • Intergenerational Justice
    • François Jacob
    • An Open Letter to David Shearer and David Parker
    • Mark Lynas on his GM u-turn
    • Thin Ice: the inside story of climate science
    • The dreaded spreadsheet error
    • Labour economics: golf caddying edition
    • Energy policy as a new policy issue!
    • Terrorism and the West’s obsession with oil
    • Pseudoscience Bingo (Homeopathy version)
    • Wringing a wet cloth in zero-G
    • a little extrapolation is a dangerous thing
    • Monckton misfires on Radio New Zealand: a baker’s dozen of errors and deception
    • What’s the point of academic research?
    • Keep it simple. Keep it safe. NZ's GST edition.
    • Exempting the elderly
    • Adam Smith: a man of the left or right? (updated)
    • Men - girdle your loins with a kilt?
    • Marriage equality, retribution and moral progress
    • Our manufactured drinking crisis
    • The excel error in Rogoff-Reinhart
    • EconTalk this week
    • Local authority chief executives are boosting their pay packets by "empire-building"
    • Vaccination rates in NZ and what do those that delay infant immunisation think?
    • Oh Christchurch
    • Be careful saying that housing is “taking away” from businesses
    • One from the archives
    • TDB today: Watching the ice melt
    • Leaving academia - create your next job?
    • The source of the world’s ills
    • Climate lulz: Rings around Antarctica
    • Intergenerational equity
    • Unemployment is bad for employment 2
    • A sombre night in Boston
    • Homeopathy; where reason is diluted until none is left
    • Turning moments
    • Press Complaints Commission upholds homeopaths complaint
    • The Power of Un-Location gets an airing
    • The legacy of the MMR debacle
    • Moaning minnie Monckton attacks academic freedom: Support The VUW Three!
    • Monday Micro - Influ-Venn-Za!
    • Cooking up a new kidney
    • Moving into the mainstream – on the coat tails of the “New Atheists”
    • Mass-produced education
    • PBRF - I got a C!
    • Margaret Thatcher’s economic legacy
    • Minimum wage and tax on low income earners
    • Open Banking Resolution and Deposit Insurance
    • Film is still alive!
    • Spin Doctors go to work on PBRF
    • More Monckton invention: what Myles Allen didn’t say
    • More Monckton invention: what Myles Allen didn’t say
    • Thatcher, Monckton and Pinochet
    • EconTalk this week
    • New Auckland Museum Three Kings Islands Expedition
    • Two undervalued points in thinking about monetary stimulus
    • Watch the students
    • Science-y reading
    • Still life
    • Lightning Labs shows off its first flowers of startup blooming
    • Living Free
    • The Face of Kidney Attack Part II
    • Don Easterbrook knowingly misleads Washington State Senate
    • Science! thou fair effusive ray...
    • Figuring your charge-out rate
    • Potty peer in Waikato
    • In a warming world, we'll be drinking more homegrown wine
    • Another for the "As always, Ed Glaeser is right" file...
    • The new Bank of Japan
    • Inelastic demand
    • Reader feedback invited for Waiology
    • Monckton's nightmare week in New Zealand
    • New Zealand Blog ranking Montage
    • Water governance in New Zealand: A conclusion
    • What is global temperature?
    • Flipping Classwork
    • Technobabble - a pseudoscience give away
    • Ancient Aliens Debunked
    • Wanted - pied pipers for New Zealand
    • Monckton in NZ: tells lies on radio, threatens academics and journalists
    • Kiwisaver account fees
    • Collaborative water management delivers local solutions in north Canterbury
    • Culture and agents
    • I was wrong about Lord Monckton
    • Adding a hole lot of value to a piece of pine
    • Morning roundup
    • Reading winmail.dat files sent to Apple Mac users
    • New “Hockey Stick” but same tired old denial
    • If we have a bank tax, make it a deposit levy
    • The amazing vacuum microwave
    • EconTalk this week
    • Shame and voting
    • TDB today: Smelt a rat
    • David Farrar just doesn't get it.
    • Final frontiers: Antarctica
    • The Face of Kidney Attack
    • A case study in privatisation
    • RIP Sciblogger John Nixon
    • On not giving it away
    • Thinking about water in Auckland
    • Manufacturing the market we want
    • 'new zealand's #1 way to lose weight' - oh really?
    • Dyed in the wool innovation partners up to go global
    • Cold wind to Valhalla: Arctic ice loss brings spring snow to UK and Europe
    • caesarians & medical hypotheses
    • March ’13 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • An NZ Evolution Poll
  • March
    • TED revoke license of wayward Hollywood TEDx event
    • April Fools and Agenda 21
    • Just getting a drink, Ma'
    • Radio Interview done, some musings
    • Cutting jobs at DOC and charging tourists more to walk tracks are separate issues
    • The OBR is not meant to be a replacement for deposit guarantees
    • Coursera & Climate Change
    • EconTalk this week
    • The Vote - Is it Time to Tax Unhealthy Food?
    • The Hawaiian bobtail squid
    • It's a kereru surprise
    • The evolution of freshwater management under the RMA
    • Christchurch from space
    • Dear Mr Staples:
    • Brill’s Quadrant rant: a snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings
    • Kickstarting a San Fran Bay school science rap promotion
    • Bernanke rules out currency wars
    • Tax wedges
    • Astrosquid!
    • A war between religion and science?
    • A successful anti-alcohol policy
    • Cruel Irony in EQC Privacy Breach: information on 83,000 claimants leaked
    • chocolate! & just in time for easter
    • Evolution of water governance models in New Zealand
    • chocolate! just in time for easter
    • Into the night
    • Visualising plastic pollution in the world's oceans
    • Citizen science class: Using the “bigfoot genome” for 21st century biology
    • Agreeing and disagreeing with Tim Hazledine
    • Callaghan Innovation – building the plane while they fly it
    • Those "Scary" Chemicals Again
    • attack of the zombie snails
    • Climate contrarians/deniers are cherry picking again
    • Monday Micro - World TB Day
    • Why aren’t more Kiwis involved in the International Space Apps Challenge?
    • What’s it like to be a solid rocket booster?
    • EconTalk for three weeks
    • Trust, as much as science, is at the heart of water management
    • Think before you 3D print
    • Dishonesty of intelligent design “research”
    • TEDMED - We Need Better Drugs - Now.
    • It's what the learner knows...
    • It's a small world
    • Are we getting safe medicines?
    • Managing our freshwater resources in a changing climate
    • Predator-Free NZ: Our 'Space Programme'?
    • Happy World Water Day!
    • Do futurists have a future?
    • Deposit Insurance
    • Is maths real?
    • The rent is too darned high: Auckland edition
    • Mike Moore on Ross Sea proposal
    • Something for all those lapsed catholics
    • The most influential scientists of 2012?
    • Political equilibrium, OBR, and deposit insurance
    • Open access good for businesses too
    • Valuing Science in New Zealand
    • Prat watch #10: the ice age is here!
    • TDB today: Bursting Bill and Steven’s bubble
    • are humans still evolving (a repeat visit)
    • Dawkins’ new book
    • Information mismatch
    • Australia is not ready for the next big dry
    • The National Parks of our waterways: Do they have any future under proposed Government reforms?
    • Fat taxes — what’s the goal?
    • Bubbles, FDI, winners and losers
    • Why is Federated Farmers promoting climate denial during a major drought?
    • Choosing your major
    • Our world from the International Space Station
    • More on the alcohol crisis
    • “Living wage a test of small business’ mettle”
    • Little school thinks bearly big
    • Monday Micro - roller derby micro!
    • Don Easterbrook is a zombie
    • Don Easterbrook is a zombie
    • Are all drownings accidental? Are too many fires arson?
    • That little technology peeve
    • Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
    • Lobbying isn't everything
    • A new leader
    • The legitimate use of science in managing water
    • Creationists prefer numerology to real scientific research
    • a cheer for saccharomyces cerevisiae
    • Investigate magazine struck dumb by numerology of genetic code
    • Prat watch #9: Ring’s wrong again
    • Dare to Disagree
    • Hearing aid users - survey on music perception
    • Epigenetic dynamics - free
    • Crazy Creationists Returns
    • A tale of technologies
    • Don't underestimate the estimate
    • Minimum prices and mortality risk
    • Kidneys Are The Hardest Workers In Your Body
    • Who owns water? Māori or the Crown?
    • Brain Games
    • Teina Pora case: funding case re-investigations
    • Keeping it all together on bond sales
    • Bill English’s weasel words on weather, climate and drought
    • Open course: Science from Superheroes to Global Warming
    • Don’t panic
    • Antarctic voyage: Back in Wellington
    • Let’s get the taxes right
    • Happy WKD
    • Tax all the things
    • Wednesday Wildlife: Australian Coot
    • Antarctic voyage: Are we there yet?
    • Water governance and the RMA
    • Currency risk
    • Talking sense about morality
    • Bionic arms and tattoos
    • Antarctic voyage: Student experience
    • Trusting Secret Data: Dunedin edition
    • The big dry
    • More Monckton madness: Agenda 21 means concentration camps for all
    • A list of effective treatments for a Kidney Attack
    • Creating a deep infrastructure tool and asset for Christchurch – a (relatively) cheap idea well worth NZ Inc considering
    • Till your well runs dry: NZ drought hits record levels
    • Sex, Politics & Abuse of Statistics
    • Publish a 'popular science' version of your thesis?
    • Antarctic voyage: Q and A
    • Of Polar Bears, Inuit and that CITES proposal
    • Extreme confirmation bias in action
    • Valuing amenities
    • The role of science and science communication in setting environmental limits
    • Unintended consequences?
    • Monday Micro - extremophiles & 50 shades of ... immunity!
    • An unfortunate experiment in peer review
    • Mayim Bialik - Scientist & Actor
    • Government releases freshwater reform proposals
    • Spreading the burden
    • Editors, producers, journalists: drop the false balance
    • Otago Bioethics: Downs Edition
    • Antarctic voyage: Sections through the ocean
    • How Psychic Abilities Work ...
    • Good news and better news
    • Blackwater rafting
    • The Department of Conservation’s role in water governance
    • Declarations and Nightwatchmen
    • Quote of the day: On bank subsidies
    • Greedy Lying Bastards
    • Drug Design and Enzymes
    • Antarctic voyage: Photographic tips and advice
    • Antarctic Voyage: Ocean Acidification
    • Those arguments against marriage equality
    • Codebreakers - Wellcome traces the origins of modern genetics
    • Brian Cox's crazy holiday
    • A rising tide sinks cities…
    • Water governance - we’re getting into overdraft
    • Antarctic Voyage: The CTD
    • Census 2013: That religion question
    • Why is this wrong?
    • A solution to our lack of shared purpose around a science-innovation strategy
    • Unemployment is bad for employment
    • Why we cannot have nice things
    • Microeconomist Club has rules
    • Personal reflections on the Land and Water Forum
    • Antarctic Voyage: It is all about the critters!
    • Mau-mauing the EQC flak-catchers
    • Monday Micro - smart viruses
    • Climate change is not simple
    • Recursive lying: Monckton rails against liars by telling lies
    • An Appalling Misrepresentation of Science
    • the amazing hCG 'diet', redux
    • Spillage Markets
    • Antarctic Voyage: On the shelf at last!
    • Dispersion in water waves
    • February ’13 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • I've been quiet
    • Diabetes in NZ – new scary data
    • Water governance in New Zealand: An introduction
  • February
    • Homo electronicus - update
    • Recursive fraudery: Monckton goes mad in Australia
    • Antarctic voyage: Mud, mud, glorious mud
    • Getting to grips with multicore’s hugely disruptive technology – an opportunity for NZ Inc
    • Hydrogen on demand - Technical "Sleight of Hand"?
    • Unintended effect of DCD on dairy farms: Nitrification blocked in downstream freshwater ecosystems
    • A sensible Christian perspective on Peter Singer
    • Crick's letter to son, aged 12, explaining DNA structure model
    • Real minimum wages
    • Antarctic Voyage: The biological pump – the importance of microscopic phytoplankton
    • The exchange rate as a price
    • Direct to Consumer Advertising revisited
    • Nobel Prize for DNA structure for sale
    • A real alcohol crisis [warning: may not actually contain crisis]
    • Antarctic Voyage: The discovery of the Mertz Region
    • Standards and Codes for forensic scientists
    • Minimum wages and climate change
    • Future not what it used to be
    • Future Foods
    • Wellington Startup Weekend well pitched
    • EconTalk this week
    • Symptoms too serious to ignore: a call to face up to NZ’s critical risks
    • Symptoms too serious to ignore: a call to face up to NZ’s critical risks
    • No immutable truths, no eternal dogmas
    • UK doctors unite to tackle obesity
    • Antarctic Voyage: Hump day – half way through the trip
    • Antarctic Voyage: Could the past be the key to the present?
    • The minimum wage in the U.K.
    • The minimum wage in Canada
    • The Periodic Table
    • Global climate – and your grandchildren
    • Misunderstanding/Misrepresenting Science
    • The Myth of the Scientist
    • Mega- and nano-everything
    • Antarctic voyage: The formation of the Antarctic bottom water
    • Regional heterogeneity
    • Entertaining – and the science is good
    • 2 years on the Papanui campus remembers and celebrates
    • Thinking Futures Workshop
    • Homo electronicus
    • Ex-ante concerns about moral hazard
    • Lawrence Krauss on Science vs. Religion
    • Remember the dollar is a price – work from there
    • The truth about the hockey stick
    • Antarctic voyage: What is a polynya?
    • RBNZ gives its frame for the debate on manufacturing and the exchange rate!
    • Road closures
    • fear & loathing in the water
    • Australian Gene Patent Held Valid: Patent is for Isolated Nucleic Acid, not for Information Per Se
    • Armen Alchian dies at age 98
    • Supply Management Cartels
    • Live from UOC 40th anniversary lectures
    • RIP Armen Alchian
    • Origins of religious ethics and violence
    • Antarctic voyage: Q and A
    • Journals and personalities
    • Antarctic voyage: Sea ice
    • 1300
    • ‘Foolproof’ writer to study difference between new business intent and reality
    • Nominate your favourite posts for a Science Seeker award
    • Antarctic voyage: Sailing through thin ice
    • Describing science
    • On MMT: An ideology wrapped in a strawman
    • Underlying type
    • cyclists = road vermin? quit the hyperbole, mr ware
    • A bit of hope
    • Defining Science
    • What in Earth????
    • Antarctic Voyage: The South Pole
    • Regime uncertainty: Christchurch edition (continued)
    • The Measure of Māori Wellness
    • The Measure of Māori Wellness
    • Is education really an investment?
    • It's Complicated: Oz minimum wage edition
    • Monday Micro - Fantastic Farts
    • Why Support Marriage Equality?
    • Camouflage
    • Sean Faircloth, Director of Richard Dawkins Foundation, visiting NZ
    • The Russian meteor – what we know
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Mostly True Facts about land snails
    • The Dangerous Untruths* used by "Alternative" Medicine - part 1
    • New Drugs approved in 2012
    • Polite but Firm
    • What Kiwis die of - Part III: Changes with age
    • Teaching how to think physics
    • Antarctic Voyage: Icebergs
    • Coroner recommends
    • Marvellous MRI music vid
    • How do we teach this?
    • Should we be prepared?
    • Money Illusion in Prince Parker's Court
    • Money Illusion in King Arthur's Court
    • People talkin’ #11
    • Air Coase
    • Antarctic Voyage: My first experience of the Southern Ocean and Antarctica
    • Does religion blur understanding of evolution?
    • Antarctic Voyage: The carbon team
    • Why is Nick Rowe so incredibly clear on monetary policy?
    • Web browser news: Opera to drop Presto and move to WebKit
    • Notes on the financial crisis
    • The “dynamic duo” of science?
    • Antarctic Voyage: Cold weather protection
    • Overhyping nothing: The NZ context for the UK FSA speech
    • Living Wages and Raising Rivals' Costs
    • Give up the total DIY for tech start-ups – Clark-Reynolds
    • artistry
    • Back to school Mr Prosser
    • An "Alternative" View on Antibiotics
    • Life in the Dry Valley Desert of Antarctica: NZ Terrestrial Antarctic Biocomplexity Survey 2013 Expedition
    • Looking the wrong way: legal ivory market not linked to illegal
    • Antarctic Voyage: Neptune is coming…
    • A day for cheap shots
    • Darwin and New Zealand
    • Competition for Wellington infographics makers
    • A failure, but what kind?
    • Baldrick's Cunning Plan?
    • 2012 Scholarship exam finished
    • A global phenomenon
    • Monday Micro - the sore throat vaccine
    • Antarctic voyage: Argo floats
    • Antarctic voyage: Everyday life on the ship
    • While I'm locked in the world of reports ...
    • Science as the best, possibly only, way to truth
    • Richard III - A Right Royal Scientific Synthesis Recipe
    • NBR interviews Steve McIntyre: hard-hitting business journalism or fatuous piffle? You decide…
    • Graham Norton solves a problem (nearly)
    • Graham Norton solves a problem (nearly)
    • New Zealand's Own "Journal" of Natural Nuttiness
    • The reality of cancer
    • Shock fronts: literature and surfing
    • The technology conundrum
    • Carney on NGDPLT
    • Antarctic voyage: The geology team and coring
    • The Climate Show #33: Salinger, carbon carnage and recursive fury
    • 30,000
    • Inequality, Crime and Jellybeans
    • NZ NDGP graphs – add your own comments!
    • Wetlands series wrap-up
    • Science, evidence, policy and good government
    • For Tolkien fans - The Science of Middle-Earth
    • Antarctic Voyage: The Continuous Plankton Recorder
    • Antarctic Voyage: Multibeam mapping of the seafloor
    • Nominal and real
    • The case against patents
    • When we name something, our relationship with it changes
    • Progress in restoring wetlands in New Zealand
    • Epigenetics - introductory explanations
    • Pulling out the comparative advantage card
    • Contraception costs
    • Education should never validate ignorance
    • Beach Mouse Pelt Map
    • When inifinity isn't infinite
    • Carbon budgets begin to bite: unburnable carbon not an asset, HSBC reports
    • The Case of the Vanishing Elf
    • Ramsar wetlands in NZ: Why are they important and where are we going?
    • Antarctic Voyage: The oceanography team
    • So just how did I get my name?
    • “Divine commands” and personal conscience
    • What a thought looks like
    • Guaranteed Income and Living Wages
    • Clarification: launching a charity this year
    • What makes wetlands wet lands?
    • Monday Micro - just who are we?
    • Antarctic voyage: Leaving port and sea sickness
    • Antarctic voyage: Survival training
    • Gemmell on state assets sales
    • Zero drugs; plenty of alcohol
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Cannibalism in the garden
    • But is it research?
    • what might a 'science for citizens' curriculum look like?
    • Happy World Wetlands Day!
    • How odd
    • January ’13 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • more quirky science songs
    • How many times do you wash your blood each day?
    • A tiger diversion
    • An interpretation of the OCR decision
    • A Tufte Library
    • Antarctic voyage: Planning and preparation
    • Welcome to Pictures of Numbers
    • Antidumping protection hurts exports
  • January
    • Do Catches win Matches?
    • What Kiwis die of - Part II: The battle of the sexes
    • Prat Watch #8: Monckton’s folly, Carterist crap
    • Don't start by assuming stupidity
    • Troll training
    • Weight and lift: Chicken style
    • Beer’s bitterness and your health
    • Elsewhere
    • Why measure carbon budgets in NZ peat wetlands?
    • Gareth Morgan and his cat killing experiment*
    • Cats: internalising the externality
    • Antarctic voyage: the Mertz Polynya
    • Insulation
    • Inflation stickiness, demand, and judging the success of monetary policy
    • SPCA’s cruelty to cats and other animals - Are they mad?
    • Menzie Chen on currency wars
    • Trap-neuter-release or Trap-kill-$5?
    • Is your region warming?
    • Achieving virtual scale for our largest industry
    • where's pooh?
    • Tests: Assessment for learning
    • Record-setting asteroid flyby
    • Can Kim Dotcom's Mega beat the law where Megaupload failed?
    • World Wetlands Day at Lake Serpentine, site for proposed National Wetlands Centre
    • Inflation expectations
    • Experts agree — times are tough
    • More on the turn from zero budgets
    • Cat-harsis – solutions aplenty and possible
    • Rewards to grad school
    • Amusing Skepticism "Ad"
    • EconTalk this week
    • Climate change complicit in scorching heat, bushfires, flooding and tornadoes of disastrous Australian summer
    • From science PhD to careers outside academia: what might help?
    • Tackling agricultural emissions: the NZ story
    • The state of Canterbury’s coastal wetland vegetation
    • Heading into the great unknown
    • More agreement among economists
    • Is the financial sector too large?
    • Morning roundup
    • A hypothetical chat – exchange rate overvaluation
    • Conservationists should care about cats
    • Mark Carney points out the currency war myth
    • social media & pseudoscience
    • A farewell to China
    • No cause for alarm – if you cherry pick
    • Christchurch Medical School reopens after two years of closure due to earthquakes
    • From “swamps” to “wetlands”: The transformation of wetlands as both conceptual and physical landscapes
    • Two weeks of blogging for World Wetlands Day
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Native bees again
    • Housing wealth and consumption – an upper bound, not an estimate
    • Thoughts on National’s change of heart
    • When the cats away… … people do the killing
    • What Helps a Student Succeed?
    • The political alarmism behind climate change denial
    • the kyoto – new zealand break-up – when unfaithful new zealand said ‘commitment’ he never meant it
    • the kyoto – new zealand break-up – when unfaithful new zealand said ‘commitment’ he never meant it
    • the kyoto – new zealand break-up – when unfaithful new zealand said ‘commitment’ he never meant it
    • the kyoto – new zealand break-up – when unfaithful new zealand said ‘commitment’ he never meant it
    • the kyoto – new zealand break-up – when unfaithful new zealand said ‘commitment’ he never meant it
    • the kyoto – new zealand break-up – when unfaithful new zealand said ‘commitment’ he never meant it
    • the kyoto – new zealand break-up – when unfaithful new zealand said ‘commitment’ he never meant it
    • the kyoto – new zealand break-up – when unfaithful new zealand said ‘commitment’ he never meant it
    • expedition news
    • Optimal cats
    • The use of dicyandiamide (DCD) to control nitrogen pollution in NZ
    • Callaghan Innovation – wishing it all the best…..but
    • Reasons for liking a carbon tax
    • The symbol-archetype distinction when discussing economic primatives
    • Do domestic cats exterminate native animal populations?
    • Scholarship exam 2012: Videos now uploaded
    • Some Statistics On the Science Literacy Test
    • The Climate Show #32: a Cook’s tour of the Aussie heat
    • A plea to fund a drug
    • Media Hyperbole
    • Will students learn?
    • Efficient excusing
    • The currency “war” myth that won’t die
    • Can philosophers, or anyone, tell us what is “right” and “wrong”?
    • Sir Paul Nurse: Making science work
    • Do domestic cats really kill native wildlife?
    • cloning neandertals - can we? should we? is it true?
    • Structural failure: Jam yesterday
    • Science Literacy Test Initial Follow-up
    • Lives to be saved on March 14th 2013
    • The minimum wage-employment debate .... again
    • Cat-astrophy in search of solutions
    • Measuring the knowledge economy
    • The Gore synthesis: where we are now, where we are heading, and what we need to do
    • Programme closures
    • Test your Science Literacy Skills
    • Cats aren't evil, but they are a problem
    • History of science – for Kiwis
    • Can Obama turn rhetoric into action on climate change?
    • Discovering the unique fauna of alpine streams
    • A Brash idea for Christchurch
    • Nine facts about top journals in economics
    • faecal transplants as a treatment for persistent gut infections
    • More blatant self promotion
    • Economists agreeing: student loans edition
    • Monday Micro: wiley bacterium makes 'stem cells' to aid dissemination
    • A rather neat field experiment
    • Is there such a thing as tattoo removal cream, or is it a scam?
    • Kidney exchange and market design
    • Sunday Spinelessness - 5 down.... quite a few to go
    • Nonsense from Sensible Sentencing Trust Spokesperson
    • Open Research coming to a neighbourhood near you
    • Messages from a sizzling continent: Salinger on the Aussie heatwave
    • 'Science & Society' Bullshit Bingo
    • Vaccination - why learn the hard way?
    • Sir Paul Nurse and 'science bingo'
    • a lovely friday photo
    • Structured Procrastination, 17-Jan-2013 (Science should end, etc.)
    • The power of steam
    • Science, suicide and open access - RIP Aaron Swartz
    • Back to Asia
    • Science in slow motion
    • What do Kiwis die of?
    • Death Bias
    • Marijuana snark
    • Carbon offsets from a permanent forest sink project – keep it real
    • Scholarship physics: When the obvious is not-so-obvious
    • Time to get rid of drug advertising
    • Who is guilty of misusing science?
    • People talkin’ #10
    • "May" advertising
    • DTC prescription drug advertising
    • An implantable artificial kidney
    • evolution - a good video for the classroom
    • Conspiracy Theories - where do they come from?
    • What do you think Kiwis die of?
    • A new 3 R’s for the environment
    • Overly honest scientists
    • Deconstructing climate change, and its deniers
    • Deconstructing climate change, and its deniers
    • Immunisation Awareness Society followers - what the new page rules show
    • Climate of complacency #2: de Freitas lies to TV3
    • A very kitchenesque CT scanner
    • Amazing photos of Shuttle Endeavour flight deck
    • Climate of complacency: NZ Herald lazy and irresponsible
    • Ten Years On: The Elephant Ivory Problem
    • Australia's biggest astronomy observatory overrun by bushfire
    • Monday Micro
    • Demand for intoxication
    • Embarrassment is a barrier to sales
    • In defense of the taxman
    • Impact of file sharing on film industry
    • No, you can't tax your way to happiness
    • Sunday Spineless - On the Wing
    • Thieves in gold-mining era campsites
    • stem cells, cosmetics - and unexpected consequences
    • Where's the Best Place for a University?
    • Australia’s “New Normal?”
    • A natural Red Dawn
    • Why revisions matter
    • Obesity and mortality revisited
    • Get out and shout about it
    • Still warming after all these years (again)
    • Curious case of the vanishing court file
    • Nonsense maths
    • Going beyond the evidence
    • The Snare:Tetragnathid Spider
    • Cigarette prices and subjective well-being
    • "the aviator" - a vision of the future that's a little too close for comfort
    • Kiwi Freedom
    • Externalities and the changing nature of the internet
    • Black-and-white Rata
    • Too Hot: Australia’s big heat breaking records
    • Tax maximisation, smoking, and the Stalin Gap
    • WSJ suggests abandoning economic models
    • No shirking from home, please!
    • A time for hypocrisy
    • A time for hypocrisy
    • Aumann on Shapley and Roth
    • Stadium renovations and cost overruns - further recent evidence
    • EconTalk this week
    • Wildfire smoke – bad news for Greenland’s ice: Dark Snow project needs your money
    • The sneeze jet
    • The biggest tech fest in the world
    • The science of video games
    • Dodgy weight loss regimens
    • Monday Micro: vomiting robots, oysters and the Ferrari of viruses!
    • Whipping the poor to garden – an ecological injustice
    • Social Costs of Healthy
    • Climate Show New Year podcast special: where it’s at and where it’s going
    • Travels in Time and Space - Sir Paul Callaghan
    • Fiscal multipliers are unhelpful
    • University enrolments are down
    • Debate of Homeopathy
    • Historians and sociologists just as human as scientists
    • The decline of British industry
    • A Celtic New Year: lilt or lament?
    • The Embrace
    • December ’12 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • EconTalk this week
• 2012
  • December
    • Vicki Hyde - NZ Order of Merit for Services to Science
    • Best not to leave a live dragon out of your calculations
    • A problem with logic
    • Periodic Memories
    • Memorising the Periodic Table
    • Taking time to look good: Jumping Spider
    • The year the earth bit back: top climate stories of 2012
    • Performance evaluation of teachers
    • "Miracle Mineral" Solution is not Janola
    • Crash responsibility, and some back of the envelope reckoning
    • The big scientific discoveries of 2012
    • Historians and sociologists lecture scientists – about science
    • A very Green Christmas
    • Wonders of Life coming – we hope
    • A new world record(?)
    • A dose of reality
    • New Zealand’s double dealing and special pleading over the second Kyoto period: part the second
    • 2012 in review
    • How will the End of the World affect clinical trials?
    • Apocalyptic Science
    • New Zealand’s double dealing and special pleading over Kyoto 2: part the first
    • Long-term financing
    • Reflecting on wildlife rehabilitation II
    • The Hypocrisy of the Immunisation "Awareness" Society
    • When things grow wild - post-earthquake natural succession in Christchurch gardens
    • Change by chance, by design or by stealth – Callaghan Innovation’s ‘birth’ far from democratic
    • Pulling the wool over the eyes of the faithful
    • Outbreak of shellfish poisoning in the Bay of Plenty
    • What makes a good communicator?
    • Congratulations Professor Roy Kerr
    • Finding the denominator
    • What causes didymo blooms (“rock snot”) in NZ rivers?
    • Anti-vaccination network told to change its name or be shut down
    • NZ’s climate policy omnishambles – gerry brownlee’s anti-carbon tax
    • Rugby Boosterism
    • Feeling oppressed by the administration...?
    • Paying for roads
    • Scientists and philosophers discuss morality and meaning
    • More microscope pr0n winners announced
    • Return of Forensic Scientist!
    • We are the picture that a child draws of a farm
    • Pluralism and health
    • Is Modern Medicine Killing You? - Mediawatch on Radio New Zealand
    • EconTalk this week
    • One reason for low private sector investment in research and development
    • Again with the middle class …
    • Happy Christmas
    • NZ climate policy shambles, and other summer reading
    • Monday Micro
    • In defence of invasive alien species
    • Enough is enough
    • Christmas present from NASA
    • The hidden costs of peer review
    • Deadly ignorance
    • If Callaghan Innovation is the answer – remind me again what was the question?
    • More fat taxes, and a minor correction
    • At last – Moving Naturalism Forward videos
    • Food & beverage stars for NZ to hitch its wagon to – report
    • Assessing the Insurance Council claims
    • Do we talk about the right cancers?
    • Getting the Book Invented
    • Fiscal rules need an enforcer
    • The effect of the 'Mayan Doomsday' on clinical trials
    • The fat tax debate is reignited again
    • Mad on Radium
    • Carney endorses NGDP level targeting!
    • Obesity costs
    • Deafness
    • Why cyclical Kiwisaver would be an awful tool
    • Conservation, Zoos and Elephant
    • Kiwi-directed Bond films are the most violent
    • Sense on evolutionary psychology.
    • The Doha Gateway: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair
    • Stuff and nonsense (ministerial condescension and media fossil fools)
    • Your LinkedIn profile, visualised
    • NZ Tunnelwebs
    • If we knew what we were inventing when we figured it out…..we would’ve named it
    • Nuclear war v Climate change
    • More party pills...
    • Monday Micro
    • This is why I use Nokia maps
    • NZ's own Doomsday prepper - and his flaky science
    • The minister missed the point
    • Verification and Validation
    • RIP Patrick Moore – thank you for the wonder
    • Does science have a cognitive privilege?
    • On reviews, technology and phones
    • Pranks and Human Frailty
    • Another example of why we need a full story
    • Interesting blog bits
    • The Economist’s Greg Ip on economics reporting
    • Sunday Spinelessness - A Clearwing moth
    • Popularising Maths - Dara O'Briain's School of Hard Sums
    • Sceptical humility and peer review in science
    • Lost and damaged
    • Google+ rolls out Google Communities
    • Endace spat reveals classic sell-out tensions
    • Amazing Mad Men smoking/drinking data visualisations
    • The Climate Show #31: Doha! Doha! Doha!
    • Māori knowledge and Western science: the final frontier
    • Keen still keen on attacking standard micro (updated)
    • What’s the value of a degree, Virginia?
    • Not an equilibrium
    • Tornadoes don't indicate extreme weather is increasing
    • DeSTEMber is here!
    • New Advertisement in Support of Same Sex Marriage
    • Arctic records tumble as ice melts: 2012 Arctic report card released at AGU
    • Cancer – an emotional rollercoaster
    • Some worrying disquiet around Callaghan Innovation
    • Phreatogammarus fragilis: The fragile well shrimp
    • Students, early career scientists - win an iPad in writing competition
    • Commitment through our identities
    • The TPP - what does it mean for science?
    • Sceptical arrogance and evolutionary psychology
    • 2° be or not 2° be: the choices we face
    • Pesky varmints
    • Leyland joins the über cranks: signs up with serial liar O’Sullivan’s vanity “science” group
    • Financial regulation: Efficiency vs stability trade-off
    • Externalising the Internality
    • Celebrating Teaching Day
    • And now for a bit of drama
    • Help TED.com editor tackle TEDx pseudoscience
    • Agricultural R&D – a fantastic legacy and a means to move forward
    • Animal testing back in the news
    • PeerJ pulls off a hat trick
    • Monday Micro
    • is this fish evil?
    • Electric experiments
    • Structured procrastination, 2 Dec 2012
    • One-sided science reporting
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Bark Lice
    • Agreement polar ice sheets are melting
    • The science funding story continues
    • November ’12 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • No Easy Fight for Science
    • Reflecting on ‘Happy-feet’ and wildlife rehabilitation
  • November
    • Whole genome sequencing for serious vaccine complaints?
    • Is Modern Medicine Killing You? - Episode 8
    • New York's carbon emissions visualised
    • Dear Negotiators…
    • Sea stars and mosaics
    • Working towards a “why” of changes in manufacturing
    • Signing up to nonsense: denialists plot letter to UN secretary general
    • Scibloggers clean out science communication awards cupboard
    • Regarding women as animals
    • sasquatch dna!!! not so fast, pardner
    • Doha notes: Random thoughts from the Middle East
    • What a problem for ikeGPS…..managing its growth!
    • Just for fun: the theory of privatisation
    • A fictional timeline of the future
    • A different view of an inflation/price level target: No-monetization commitment
    • Astonishing documentary: Secret Life – the Hidden Life of the Cell
    • Christmas present for nerds – what about science books?
    • Undiscovery in physics
    • Sorting algorithms explained through folk dance
    • Anomalies and market efficiency
    • Tim Groser shuts the stable door after the Mickey Mouse carbon credits have bolted
    • The Greening of National: just add Gold
    • Manufacturing weakness
    • Adam Darwin
    • More on describing the crisis
    • Mike Joy isn't a lone voice - just a loud one
    • Time for philosophical honesty about Darwin
    • Map: Projected effects of climate change on New Zealand freshwaters
    • Baby-led weaning
    • What would responsible pastoralism mean? (A strategic ‘glue’)
    • A well-regulated fracking
    • Where the moral hazard comes from
    • Waiology moving from water cycle to freshwater sciences
    • Brain drain and gain (brain flow) in 16 nations
    • Things we could only have dreamed of – and all that sand
    • Do Costs Matter (Revisited)
    • Sunday Spinelessness - An ID challenge
    • Jobs and wages in manufacturing
    • The London Olympics came in under budget. Yeah right.
    • Flynn effects
    • Religion in schools – a sensible approach
    • Is Modern Medicine Killing You? - Episode 7
    • Kevin Anderson and the emperor’s underpants: beyond two degrees now inevitable
    • Hope for Type I diabetics
    • Learning from US patent trends – innovation and synthesis in Aotearoa
    • Innovative govenrment?
    • Always extend the data series
    • The case for not cutting
    • Climate change deniers don’t understand expertise
    • Spectacular Footage of Yesterday's Tongariro Eruption - Risk Remains High
    • Seeing circular polarization
    • The last climate denier in New Zealand
    • Callaghan Innovation – time for a concrete and practical illustration of its intent
    • Did you get a feel for what the grant-application process and lifestyle involved as a PhD student?
    • Turn down the heat: even bankers know a bad thing when they see it (sometimes)
    • Kid Sanity
    • Cricket and the Wasp: Shameless self promotion (Wonkish).
    • Type I and Type II Errors
    • stingray x-ray
    • The arrogance of supernatural privilege
    • Should student loans be bigger?
    • Making the waka go faster
    • Validity in experiment
    • Water allocation and limit-setting in a changing climate
    • Disagreeing with Monbiot
    • We all own our agricultural story…..that’s the problem
    • Cliff notes on the financial crisis
    • NZ’s environmental street cred
    • Morality and non-human animals
    • Science journalism that MATTERs
    • Monday Micro
    • Ben Goldacre on Pharmaceutical Marketing
    • Credit where it's due?
    • Fetishisation of the hand-crafted
    • Annals of improbable statistics: public choice edition
    • Causes and consequences
    • More damage from megastorm Sandy
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Shocked from sloth by a beautiful spider
    • a cute little piggy (but why do we find it so?)
    • What’s a vote worth?
    • Seven keys to green growth in NZ: Pure Advantage’s new economic analysis
    • Personalised time/place knowledge goal of ThunderMaps
    • Election lessons for consultants
    • Careful with the CGT “silver bullet”
    • Advertising, brands, and prices
    • Capturing kid’s minds with emotions
    • Pinhole cameras and eclipses
    • Come on ATI, tell us what you’re thinking – please!
    • Interview of Ronald Coase and Ning Wang
    • Green growth
    • Is Modern Medicine Killing You? - Episode 5
    • Another green growth report
    • Norwegian Wood (this exporter has flown)
    • Dear journalists and editors, (again)
    • Nov 14 partial eclipse in Wellington – odd light and weird shadows
    • Consumer prices and advertising
    • Privatising the Super Rugby franchises (well, partially)
    • In a not-quite symmetric world
    • Hanging out with Vint Cerf
    • What does our agriculture offer?……..romance and reassurance
    • More pay gaps
    • Who is exploiting who?
    • The Challenge of Science Challenges
    • Don’t worry Kyoto (National’s Only Looking Out For Its Friends)
    • Chemistry Extravaganza - The Movie
    • Fun with carbon accounting
    • A hole in construction employment … really?
    • Let Them Come
    • EconTalk for 3 weeks
    • Monday Micro
    • The Great NZ Science Project begins!
    • That particle again
    • Skeptical Tarot Cards
    • Will the last business lobbyist to leave please turn out the light at the end of the ETS tunnel
    • Increase your functionality, coherence and structural integrity! Astonishing "aerobic frequency" woo.
    • The Climate Show #30: Obama, Sandy and the rabbit
    • Institutional status report
    • Risk calculations
    • 'a newly discovered species of little people'
    • Unemployment up
    • More on Housing Affordability: Supply versus Demand
    • Circling the square: House price lift and high unemployment
    • Who were Stalin’s victims?
    • A tip for the scholarship physics exam
    • Officiating our way to an ATI totally the wrong policy
    • Expectations formation, inflation, and a role of inflation targeting
    • How to write a news report on Wildlife Poaching
    • Obama 91% Romney 9%
    • Anti-Vaccine Charity, No More
    • Sky farms are HERE!
    • Reports from the Moving Naturalism Forward workshop
    • My top two exam tips
    • Ponting’s last innings
    • Our agriculture’s much more than the sum of its parts
    • Documenting the arbitrage
    • US Election Day 2012
    • Supply or demand – why not both?
    • QB50 – A New Zealand Nanosat Opportunity
    • Mapping tiger smuggling
    • Monday Micro
    • The funding 'lottery': how many grants should we be applying for?
    • Careful what you wish for
    • Working towards water standards
    • The elephant in the US elections
    • Coffee, Cooking, Cataracts and Cancer - 100 Years of the Maillard Reaction
    • University Professors who "Only" Teach
    • It’s Global Warming, Stupid: telling it like it is in post-Sandy USA
    • Is a PhD enough to teach at school?
    • The science of overpopulation
    • Psychics fail challenge
    • Pepper's Ghost
    • Trip notes 2: Swaziland's AIDS crisis
    • October ’12 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • TIN100 again proves it is the meat of an innovation club sandwich
  • October
    • Seeking science reading?
    • Leadership, the economic critique
    • Signing Off
    • In praise of price gouging, revisited
    • Drink-driving kids
    • Seeing the wind
    • Gareth Morgan on Housing Affordability
    • Becoming a SAVVY Scientist
    • Academic centrefolds
    • an interesting take on mousetrap evolution
    • Look out for the eclipse, 14 November
    • Sex, Death And The Meaning Of Life. Episode 3: Meaning
    • The way you’d farm if you farmed yourself
    • A big data approach to learning?
    • Monday Micro
    • More on partial privatisation
    • Eyes on the prize
    • Who are these “credible experts”?
    • Canterbury does not have 70% of New Zealand's freshwater, it has 12%
    • Smuggler caught with 16 Tiger Cubs
    • Rising Sea Levels
    • Open Access - A Challenge
    • Open Access Week 2012
    • Economist Irrationality
    • Free - short science stories
    • Need more grunt
    • Labelling and non-tariff barriers
    • RWC 2011: a small tourism win
    • Texting while driving
    • Ben Goldacre takes on the (British) Pharmaceutical Industry
    • Good graphs are general, or how a carbon tax is like drug legalisation
    • The mini-iPad and original sin
    • More on Open Access Week
    • Looking at New Zealand’s IT professionals
    • Marsden 2012: Success rate continues to fall
    • Learning from L'Aquila and why Canterbury is different
    • Communicating data clearly
    • Let’s accept now that the ATI will find it very difficult to kick off by February next year
    • Congratulations awardees – shame on the system
    • Returning to growth
    • You can't kill a bad stat
    • Death – part 2 of a series
    • kissing cousins with kennewick man?
    • It's a small, small world (and three wise monkeys)
    • L'Aquila: Why you should be interested in public understanding of science
    • Helmetless bike riders – a dying breed
    • Dopey Physics: can bio-mechanics help point the finger at Armstrong?
    • Independence and credibility: The crisis and central banks
    • Trotter, Shearer and the labour market
    • The Unemployable and the Unemploying
    • Stupid NZ Fixed Costs
    • Carrots that look like sticks
    • The Political and Legal Risks of Being a Scientist
    • EconTalk this week
    • What if governments can't pay their debts?
    • On Italian earthquakes, scientists and communication
    • GNS on quake communication - we can do better
    • Tuesday #Travel - The beat goes on
    • Test blog post
    • Scientists slam manslaughter convictions for geophysicists
    • Beer, anxiety and depression – their origins
    • For want of a name our agriculture flounders
    • The Italian job
    • Do we get the economic policy we deserve?
    • Quirrell Points
    • Here's my number, so call me maybe?
    • Hello Open Access Week 2012
    • Clive Hamilton on Einstein, scientific dadaism and the roots of climate denial
    • Political scientists caused World War II
    • The Auditor-General can see Christchurch people
    • I felt the chill before the winter came
    • Why (some) Christians support discrimination
    • Interesting blog bits
    • Sex, Death And The Meaning Of Life – Sin
    • Arctic meltdown: two views and a bit of PIG
    • Those behind charter schools are to be exempt from public scrutiny - ?
    • Faith justified? – a vital tale
    • Local Workers First
    • Why co-operatives in farming?
    • More on Exchange Rates
    • Kidney Counsels of Despair
    • Is Modern Medicine Killing You? - Episode 3
    • Healthist fantasizing
    • A little sanity in the Great Junk Food Panic
    • Experimental physics is easy on paper
    • Shiny sexy data centre pr0n
    • Engaging early- and mid-career scientists
    • Moving Naturalism Forward
    • Brother, can you spare $3.10 for a tonne of carbon dioxide?
    • Brother, can you spare $3.10 for a tonne of carbon dioxide?
    • Brother, can you spare $3.10 for a tonne of carbon dioxide?
    • Brother, can you spare $3.10 for a tonne of carbon dioxide?
    • Brother, can you spare $3.10 for a tonne of carbon dioxide?
    • Brother, can you spare $3.10 for a tonne of carbon dioxide?
    • Brother, can you spare $3.10 for a tonne of carbon dioxide?
    • And the semester comes to an end
    • Obesity prevention starts in the womb
    • Brother, can you spare $3.10 for a tonne of carbon dioxide?
    • Greenwash: Big Brands and Carbon Scams
    • Foolproof market validation tool for those of us who would be fools
    • Future Postcards From The Past
    • In defence of market transactions
    • Offshoring and middle-income workers
    • Paper 2.0: From flexible screens to smart solar cells
    • talk nerdy to me
    • A vaccine discussion forum
    • Note to self – eat more chocolate
    • Ban the Cup
    • A book I have just preordered
    • Wren-Lewis on Haldane on economics
    • NIWA v cranks: costs are in, losers start whinging
    • Why you shouldn't cite Wikipedia
    • Goodbye to the kittycat
    • Of bikes and buses
    • It’s Ada Lovelace Day!
    • A concise summary of climate change – science and politics
    • Your fingers for a cigarette?
    • All together now: high-throughput sequence mapping tool compendium
    • If we imagine beyond the actuality of how we produce….
    • I give up on Wellington buses
    • The Shapley-Roth Nobel
    • Investing to please and anger others
    • The supersonic skydive
    • That jump
    • Interesting blog bits
    • Exchange rates
    • Another inquiry?
    • One example of why all those genomes from different species are useful to biologists
    • From evolution to belief
    • normal service will resume in about a week...
    • why kids should grade teachers
    • How vaccines work - a primer
    • Considering a new car?
    • Adapting to Mars
    • Going to Extremes
    • The paper and the rhetoric
    • 007 Billion - Crowdsourcing Intel
    • Plain Packaging and Evidence
    • So just how do amphetamines work?
    • Trip notes: South Africa's fracking dilemma
    • Guest post: Ruth and her cancer
    • Measuring the value of science
    • Are you offended yet?
    • The shift toward corporate farming
    • The Climate Show #29: if the sun don’t come, you get a tan from standing in the English rain
    • 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    • Getting to a BLISful state a long and winding road
    • An excellent primer on NGDP targeting
    • Is Modern Medicine Killing You? - Episode 2
    • This has to stop
    • Should governments fund science?
    • A new way to understand consumer surplus
    • Starter Wages
    • Greens solving the wrong problem
    • Should all research papers have a 'Limitations' section?
    • Invalid opinions
    • No, actually, everyone is NOT entitled to their opinion
    • Why I Never Trust Celebrity Endorsements - Usain Bolt and Gatorade
    • Standing for nothing does our agriculture a big non-favour
    • Medicine or Physiology Nobel Prize to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for stem cell research
    • Prat watch #7.5: No, you’re not entitled to your opinion
    • Difference in Difference and the Alcohol Purchase Age: A Stillman Preview
    • Public called to contribute to NZ Science Challenges list
    • What does a Synthetic Organic Chemist do?
    • Sneaking in the magic man
    • The Birds of Spring
    • Paying for earthquakes
    • No QE “free lunch” for NZ
    • The family owned farm
    • A personal thank you note to Peter Griffin
    • Naturalism and science are incompatible
    • Sean Gourley - Physicist & Military Theorist
    • Strengthening Secondary/Tertiary Collaboration
    • Incentives matter: debt-collection file
    • What got you into science and what keeps you doing it?
    • falling numbers in physics - what do teachers think?
    • OMG - Biggest LEGO machine ever!
    • Sir Vaughan Jones & New Zealand's Education System
    • Is there a penis on your CV?
    • Outsourcing competence
    • EconTalk this week
    • sweet memories
    • Physics is different for girls...
    • Skyfall - the new James Bond movie
    • None so blind
    • Weird Pseudoscientific Beliefs
    • The Periodic Table of Beer?
    • Lots of land still up for grabs on largest LEGO set
    • A parable about trade
    • New media + books = Literary Angels: friend recommendations set to fly
    • Why I love sport
    • Is Modern Medicine Killing You? - Episode 1
    • It is NOT Chemical-Free
    • Heresthetics and the alcohol purchase age
    • Vitamin D does not reduce colds
    • It is done
    • A Kiwi makes it to Mars!
    • Is Modern Medicine Killing You?
    • Scientists - Made in NZ
    • Wind gets cheaper
    • Should we bother trying to get consumers closer to farmers?
    • An important warning regarding the monetary policy fine-tuning
    • Contagion risk
    • Dealing with debt, financial regulation, and the lender of last resort
    • Anti-Gay "Therapies" to be Banned in California
    • Thoughts on scientific abstracts also a science writing check-list
    • More fraud behind paper retractions than you might have thought
    • New Books in Science, Technology and Society
    • How to get ahead in the NRL - have government work for you
    • Worrying about the ads
    • What are the implications for New Zealand universities? 2
    • Google searches, verbatim and nation-specific
    • Distant galaxies and hobbits
    • September ’12 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • Battle for the iPhone Might Make You Like it More
    • chutzpah & pingpong balls
    • The Hunting of the SNARF
  • September
    • how do kids learn about dna?
    • A Short Introduction to Climate Change
    • The most important place you didn’t know about
    • Doing Well by Doing Good: Sports Edition
    • Cute animal pictures are good for your work!
    • Prat watch #7: the unbearable rightness of being wrong
    • Daylight savings: There’s no spring to my step
    • Popcorn, Parking, Exercise and the Theory of the Second Best
    • What's the use of National Standards data?
    • The Future by Airbus
    • EconTalk this week
    • A useful map of the human body
    • What would you have as a replacement for 'Close Up'?
    • ATI Establishment Board role far bigger than most people realise
    • Education regressions
    • The outlook for oil: An interview with Hamilton
    • Survey - communicating earthquake-related science
    • traumatic insemination? ooh that sounds painful!
    • The paradoxes of theological gullibility
    • NZ’s minister of everything Steven Joyce goes feral; attempts to influence courts over coal mine appeal
    • UnderSkin, the Tube and schematic mapping
    • The Patents Bill and the Wai 262 Report: two solitudes in search of common ground
    • Auckland stadium review
    • Limits of monopoly
    • What are the implications for New Zealand universities?
    • All the media!
    • Stepping Out
    • Should I cram all night before that exam?
    • Cartoon: How to find out if someone is an economist
    • Carbonscape go Dutch with Clinton, win cash award
    • Children killed by mothers – duh!
    • New Zealand Open Source Awards
    • Expensive cat physics
    • If we think beyond the actuality of how we produce….
    • Fast access to biological databases from your web browser
    • The internet – Yeah, right!
    • Wash ALL the things!
    • Last week for nominations for World-Class New Zealander Awards
    • Arts & Science in Schools - Is the Balance Wrong?
    • Record Arctic Sea-ice minimum 2012 declared – it’s the Silly Season!
    • What has been driving the real exchange rate?
    • US air traffic on a typical day and on September 11, 2001
    • For empirical econ wonks
    • an ambulant toupee?
    • Unsafe assumptions guide expansion of drilling in NZ
    • Rally for Education in Christchurch
    • Living photographs
    • The IgNobel Prize winners 2012: speech jamming, dead salmon brain activity, green hair and more
    • Can I do that again? Dramatic demonstration of the power of the sun
    • The IgNobels 2012 live! Now!
    • Vitamin D: “Silver bullet or fool’s gold?”
    • Do costs matter?
    • Why I shouldn’t read the paper
    • Going renewable doable by 2050, new analysis suggests
    • Finish the sentence . . .
    • People saying stupid things on the Internet
    • Crows join humans in the ability to infer hidden causal agents
    • On vetting TED(x) events - a suggestion
    • One third of New Zealanders addicted to food: fact or fiction?
    • Pastoral method’s lack of a brand/name is the opposite of the ‘tragedy of the commons’
    • New RBNZ PTA
    • On the price elasticity of demand for alcohol
    • Ice bottom blues
    • letting a good story get in the way of a few facts?
    • Reframing the monetary policy debate: Some notes
    • Another anti-science attack on Mann fails – but the lies continue
    • What do students make of physics and maths...
    • Wednesday #Wildlife: Fluffy!
    • The cost determines the rule: Monetary policy
    • QED: QE3
    • The Panic Virus
    • Separating the chaff from the grain in the debate on GM wheat
    • Why DID the chicken cross the road?!
    • My Cute Model Friend
    • Nanotechnology and Biosensors
    • Tuesday #Travel: Auckland City
    • Courtesy doesn't cost ....
    • EconTalk this week
    • The upcoming PTA
    • Five W’s, an H, and an E: The method of economics based on primary school techniques
    • Price discrimination based on gender: Sexist or fair?
    • Banning the bulb - the information critique
    • What kind of vegetable or fruit describes this NZ Herald article?
    • New Wonder Material - Nanocrystalline Cellulose
    • Secularism – its internal problems
    • How can donor rates be increased? : guest post
    • Patents Bill Second Reading: A Software Storm in an Ideological Teacup
    • Monday #Macro: Under the Cover of the Night
    • Monopoly and tariffs are costly
    • Outreach sections for research papers?
    • Arctic code red: uncharted territory
    • In which I agree with Steven Joyce
    • Politics and economics of Arctic ice loss
    • Rationalist reading
    • Roll up, roll up - the ScienceOnline2013 programme is out
    • Do sharp reductions of deficits and government debts cause large output losses?
    • Media reporting of subsequent findings
    • This is your brain on implants (spoiler: it’s better)
    • indonesia to host 2014 international biology olympiad
    • New Zealand and Australian university students - win $1500 writing about science
    • Not Quite a Three Eyed Fish
    • One instrument can't achieve two goals
    • The Climate Show #28: transglobal overground (with added ice)
    • Interesting blog bits
    • Sell or lease?
    • QE3: Forward guidance, debt purchases, unemployment target
    • the sir paul callaghan science academy
    • Internet silos become ideological ghettos
    • 3-D X-Ray is Big News for Archaeological Research
    • Bad news but great pictures: dating NZ’s shrinking glaciers shows strong link between ice loss and CO2 increases
    • Tim Minchin explains ENCODE
    • An angel lines up in books’ corner
    • How to save 40% on benefits
    • BERL report on changing the PTA
    • NZ Herald’s turn to offer propaganda as opinion – De Freitas’ links to cranks hidden from readers
    • Are real Austrian economists neoclassical?
    • EconTalk this week
    • Does eating transgenic wheat destroy your liver?
    • Defending inflation targeting
    • Give your two cents on electric vehicles in NZ
    • Climate change denier’s false “deep distress” fools no-one
    • Wednesday #Wildlife: Birdlife
    • Debunking Keen on Bernanke: The issue of debt deflation
    • Why macroprudential regulation?
    • What do economists really think?
    • The mysteries of money
    • The Higgs Boson for not-so-dummies
    • Rio Tinto Alcan NZ plays godfather: nice aluminium smelter you got, be a shame if something happened to it…
    • Flight sim without the fuss
    • Antarctica talks, photos, films - IceFest
    • Tuesday #Travel: Watching You
    • We’re the only protein production system that can say VISIT
    • Antibiotic myths
    • Changing that light bulb while in denial
    • Free food in schools: Equality of opportunity?
    • Caplan v. Dickens on poverty and welfare
    • A note for Winston Peters
    • The impact of right to carry laws
    • What can you do with a B.A. in Econ?
    • High Court ruled on integrity – not science
    • Monday #Macro: down low
    • Auld keen on debunking Keen (updated)
    • ISCB Wikipedia Competition
    • Families and urban transport
    • Micro and macro of Christchurch recovery
    • science: 1; society for textbook revise: 0
    • In defence of banning the bulb
    • On “currency wars”
    • Scenic photos from Mokoroa #Stream
    • Download your copy of the ENCODE poster
    • Help at hand for scientists to get media SAVVY!
    • A Laugh on Friday
    • How many significant figures?
    • Cranks lose court case against NZ temperature record, NIWA awarded costs
    • New Zealand climate change denial defeated
    • Smearing rationality all over Harry Potter
    • Finding GeMO
    • Are organic foods healthier?
    • if only...
    • PTA’s, currency, and monetary policy
    • How price-based policies work
    • How “sceptics” view Arctic sea ice decline
    • Now we begin to understand how the genome works!
    • walking on custard
    • Shaun Holt on iridologist Ruth Nelson's treatment of cancer patient Yvonne Maine
    • I don’t know!
    • more on mosaics
    • Selfies with Photosynth
    • Take me to the river: Mokoroa #Waterfall
    • Voyager 1 bound for interstellar space
    • Relationship broking connects the dots between money and markets
    • Tobacco plain packaging, if we cared about evidence
    • How low can you go?
    • Plain packaging
    • Cross-section of Wellington's High-Tech Businesses
    • This is your brain on hacks
    • Early warnings of a change of state
    • Making giant flowers out of fireworks
    • Summer studentships
    • immortal cells
    • Relax- Mokoroa #Stream
    • Wednesday #Wildlife - Southern Bell Frog
    • Why ban lightbulbs?
    • A nice point
    • What’s nature worth?
    • Green Growth: thoughts from experts
    • How fast shall we drive over the cliff? NZ’s ETS watered down (again)
    • Housekeeping and Requests!
    • a genetic chimera?
    • Hungry Monkeys Don't Stick Around
    • Addressing Gerry Brownlee's points
    • Moral evolution in today’s society
    • EconTalk this week
    • Don't believe the hype
    • So, tell me why we shouldn’t be global custodians of responsible pastoralism?
    • Tuesday #Travel: Sunset
    • More on the Christchurch rugby stadium
    • Stadiums and opportunity costs
    • Guess what is in the Christchurch blueprint?
    • More thoughts on stadiums in the context of natural disasters - the case of Christchurch
    • The Dismal Science: Stadiums Edition
    • Low hanging fruit and lost opportunity
    • New Zealand high performance computing on the road
    • Static electricity
    • Iridologist's treatment of cancer criticised by Health and Disability Commissioner
    • After umpteenth years on Opera, I've ...
    • Once more with Feeling.
    • Time for a cool change
    • Dominion Post unveils new weekly science page
    • Monday #Macro - Gnaphosid spider
    • NZ Skeptics Conference Reflections - Best Time Ever!
    • Check your sources
    • August ’12 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • Realism and risk: waiting for the bus
    • Nominations for open science awards
    • Firms reorganise to grow
    • The great ideas of the social sciences
    • Bad science: baking soda, fungi, cancer, nuclear fallout, rosacea
  • August
    • Learning new information while we sleep
    • science - it's not magic!
    • The story your ancestors didn't write
    • Putting government policy on trial
    • Moon-walking with due legal process to a very hot place – Neil Armstrong, coal mining & global warming
    • Icefest
    • Drifting moral values
    • Unhealthy weight control among New Zealand kids
    • Location-based intelligence industry a hidden NZ gem
    • Wednesday #Wildlife : Don't Blink
    • O Occam's
    • Alcohol purchase age
    • Meet eteRNA: “Played by humans, scored by Nature”
    • Subjective morality – not what it seems?
    • Have you got diabetes?
    • Offshore wind: a huge resource
    • Objective or subjective laws and lawgivers
    • Simon Chan 1974 - 2012: Contagious passion for science
    • Graduation, nerd blogging and a talk
    • Students rise to the prize!
    • Gunning for better play; Makerspace takes aim at crowdfunding
    • Soy versus dairy: what's the footprint of milk?
    • Tuesday #Travel - TCM shops
    • Capitalist conspiracies?
    • Chemistry Humour - provide a caption
    • Chemistry is Magic
    • Let the Science Begin!
    • fostering is the cause...
    • Neil Armstrong by Buz Aldrin
    • The critical 1st 6 months post dialysis
    • Monday #Macro - Moth
    • Citizen science....
    • Why Arctic sea ice shouldn’t leave anyone cold
    • Nooooo!
    • Causation, Correlation and Good Health
    • A change is gonna come: no Arctic sea ice and our planet with a different climate
    • Government missing opportunity to promote links with Asia?
    • Mapping the history of hurricanes
    • MoBIE announces 2012 investment round results
    • Time travel
    • The Dismal Science
    • Structured procrastination, 23-Aug-2012 edition
    • A suggestion for the ATI EB…..and a ‘to note’
    • Plain packaging of cigarettes: Evidence and Effects
    • Shattered City, Struggling Science
    • Now this is how we should be doing science!
    • Deserved
    • Turning octopus gestures into speech
    • Factory farming of the vegetable kind
    • Wednesday #Wildlife 2
    • Ice, Mice and Men
    • Innovation - how is our strategy looking?
    • charter schools (from letters to the editor)
    • The wonders of concrete
    • Tuesday #Travel Photo 2
    • US Federal Appeal Court upholds gene Myriad Gene patent after referral from Supreme Court
    • Melons and glowing eggs
    • The Aviator: new book now in flight
    • Making sense of religion, science, and morality
    • Plain packaging of cigarettes: Economics and unintended consequences
    • Monday Macro - 20 August
    • Deadly melons....
    • Statistically illiterate....
    • How The American University was Killed
    • Kiwi science fiction with a message
    • Deep Water
    • Alcohol interlocks are coming….
    • The benefits of Basic Research- Genetics and insulin
    • The rise and fall of the Heathcote River
    • The Man in the Iron Lung
    • "a blog is not the place for scientific reviews"
    • Science – the greatest story ever told
    • Wading recklessly into the water ownership debate
    • academic olympics fail to gain government support
    • Dear ATI Establishment Board,
    • Greenland’s extraordinary summer #3: new record melt year, and summer’s not over yet
    • To Destroy, or Preserve? That is the Question on the Effects of Volcanism in Archaeology
    • Nick Smith: another fossil fuel fail
    • A sundial on Curiosity?
    • Wednesday Wildife - #Tiger
    • this is a poodle moth...
    • Scientific shift work
    • NZ ETS, you are the weakest (international) link
    • Communication and trust in medicine
    • Tuesday Travels
    • Enjoy the silence: commuters are 'nonsocial' for good reason
    • NZ truthiness research on Colbert
    • ‘White label’ opportunity for number one food app
    • Medals per capita is biased
    • Equipment failure
    • NZ Skeptics Conference 2012
    • A first look at the HVL-MT24AM
    • Pump up the volume (before the ice is gone)
    • Cynical evangelisation of children
    • Arctic sea ice forecast: it’s going to be tough to stay cool
    • dodgy experts & gardasil - further questions
    • Driving drowsy is like driving drunk
    • The Watcher
    • The big hydrological OE in New Zealand
    • Eye-balling eachother in the lab...
    • Dodgy experts in the coroner's inquest into Jasmine Renata's death?
    • The science of Colbert's "truthiness"
    • Cold Cash, Cool Climate
    • Therapeutic ranting
    • Measuring population differentiation in R
    • “So Makerspace, can you create this?” – workshop eases into existence
    • Seeing the big picture
    • Reliving the Curiosity landing
    • It's arrived
    • Some thoughts from teaching appraisals
    • Grenada grabs gold, NZ relegated to Silver
    • Mt Tongariro: the aliens are invading
    • passionate biologists start early
    • things to do with precious bodily fluids
    • Greenland’s extraordinary summer #2: still melting
    • Infectious jubilation
    • Mount Tongariro eruption - sleeping giant awakens
    • Take that Jamie Oliver! – F,F & T the app-ening thing
    • NASA's Curiosity is on Mars safely – so now what?
    • Favourite worst nightmare
    • quality counts - except when it doesn't
    • New nutrition guidelines for children out today
    • Ground Truthing Archaeological Evidence at Castle Howard
    • Energy Mirages and the False Hope of “Water Powered Cars”
    • Winning medals at the Olympics
    • Curiosity requires patience
    • A bronze puts New Zealand in Gold medal position
    • North Korea leads the Olympics – Medals per dollar of GDP
    • Sunday Spinelessness - How snails conquered the land (again and again)
    • Going for gold – on Mars
    • New Zealand surges to Silver
    • Which is really the best performed Olympic country?
    • Fairfax and Stuff.co.nz: presenting propaganda as opinion and lies as fact
    • A load of science
    • $6,126,820
    • Startup junkie looking to bring weekend experience to Northland
    • July ’12 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • Kerry Emanuel: the role of reason
    • Dangerous nutrition advice?
    • Academic dilemma
  • July
    • NZ Blog Rankings FAQ
    • Infographic: The impact of the US drought
    • Christchurch's chance to be innovation central
    • sharks don't get cancer?
    • Startup Weekend leans into NZ version of global entrepreneurship competition
    • Grizzly Beastly Magically Science Stories in Museums
    • Crowdfunding update
    • The truth about sports performance products
    • Its official: smokers are filthy litterbugs
    • The shortest distance between two points
    • Calling for submissions: Disability Awareness and the Disabled in the Science Community
    • So scientism = non-theism?
    • #Macro photography- don't forget the light
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Hairy snails
    • foetal lamb cells for autism? baaaah!
    • Saying it with flowers
    • McKibben: naming the enemy
    • Greenland’s extraordinary summer: melting records and ice island setting sail
    • Climate change and NZ’s freshwaters: NIWA presentation, Friday
    • What really happens in religious instruction classes?
    • Market validation – “get outside and ask customers questions”
    • What Is Life? From Schrödinger to Watson to Venter
    • Back to work
    • Swimming with Medusoid
    • Jim Renwick on the state of climate science
    • Size Matters: Manual focus with the NEX camera
    • #Dragonfly macro
    • #Dragonfly macro
    • ‘Boy’, what a great way to get free publicity
    • Their mission – values or advancement of religion?
    • Cranks in court: sciblogs podcast plug
    • 'esoteric' - you keep using that word...
    • Aerial exempler: the takapu (#gannet)
    • moss s*x and springtails
    • Sunday Spinelessness - New Zealand microsnails
    • The story behind the High Court action
    • Warming in Wellington
    • Hair trumps helmet
    • Eureka! Symposium synopsis
    • Wind turbine syndrome: a classic 'communicated' disease
    • Seen in Ljubljana, Slovenia
    • 60's Flashback
    • Homeopathy & the Galileo Defence
    • first supertrees - now super domes
    • Ethical enquiry or moral instruction?
    • Roll up, roll up, the ATI’s going to be bigger than Ben Hur
    • The Flynn Effect and closing the IQ gap
    • Waking the Giant
    • ACC - An Example of What is Going Wrong
    • Scepticism, denial and the high court
    • Exploring Antarctica - without having to go there
    • Open access doesn't mean lower quality
    • Why buy when you can hire – special kit gets its own sharing home
    • When asses go to court
    • FBI admits flaws in forensic science evidence – how about NZ?
    • UK to open floodgates on open access science publishing
    • singapore's stupendous supertrees
    • Part 2: Size Matters- the beginner's guide to the NEX E-mount camera
    • William Lane Craig’s philosophy – the condensed version
    • Exclusive: Flat Earth Society appeal to NZ climate sceptics – join us!
    • Is there a limit to athletic performance?
    • So you think science has a problem?
    • A couple of recent pics from the Waitakeres
    • NetHui and ‘trolls’
    • Whaling for "Scientific Research"
    • Alan Alda Trying to Find the Next Carl Sagan
    • Fat Rulz OK!
    • Fat Rulz OK!
    • Predicting river flows in ungauged catchments, from New Zealand to the world
    • Groser underplays the real risks
    • Crowdfunding with a Kiwi flavour suits our tastes – PledgeMe
    • State of the climate 2011: extreme heat our fault
    • You can't ban redheaded sperm
    • Peter Singer on the misrepresentation of Peter Singer
    • You’ll see with your own eyes
    • Welcome to the rest of our lives
    • Human values are secular
    • What 3am looks like
    • On vein patterns and dead pythons – outdoor body recovery course
    • An ATI set to fly…..like a turkey
    • a letter from exotic places
    • When science writing is King
    • TED: Advice for young scientists
    • Kidney Attack
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Cuttlefish in drag deceive their rivals
    • Roughan’s ready theory
    • End of life decisions
    • Folic Acid, Science and the Media
    • Life as PhD student
    • John Key’s fossilised vision for NZ
    • Science Communication at Yale iTunes U
    • Size Matters: A look at the Sony NEX Camera system
    • The truth is molten
    • Why the Higgsteria?
    • Cost of scientific research – and political naivity
    • CERN: What is the Higgs Boson?
    • People Talkin’ #9
    • Maintaining quality edge major focus of axe maker
    • We have a new particle - and it looks Higgsy
    • Incredible image of earthquakes since 1898
    • #Tiger woes
    • Some scenes from the Hauraki
    • Government confirms NZ ETS to be watered down
    • The creationism controversy – a summary
    • In the Waitakeres
    • The perfect present for someone that has everything? – Golden Mean Calipers
    • Our (training) grave was robbed!!
    • more on active learning in the biology classroom
    • more on active learning in the biology classroom
    • Exxon boss: intellectually obtuse position on climate impacts
    • Is there room for religion in science?
    • divergent views on the importance of critical thinking
    • Sunday Spinelessness - The other mollusc shell
    • For the (Molecular) Biologists Out There
    • A Plug for Humanities & the Arts
    • Social Inequality - An Interesting Perspective
    • June ’12 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
  • June
    • This is our planet
    • Health Research Council is broke
    • Introducing the Kyoto Escalator: did anyone sign the protocol in good faith?
    • Scientific knowledge should trump “belief”
    • Scientific knowledge should trump “belief”
    • Scientific knowledge should trump “belief”
    • Know and figure out ‘pain points’ before any commercialisation – KiwiNet
    • Know and figure out ‘pain points’ before any commercialisation – KiwiNet
    • Know and figure out ‘pain points’ before any commercialisation – KiwiNet
    • Greenland melt record likely
    • Seven Minutes of Terror
    • Seven Minutes of Terror
    • Seven Minutes of Terror
    • No dallying with denial
    • what constitutes beauty? - tarantulas!
    • If we build it, will they come…..MakerSpace takes a punt
    • If we build it, will they come…..MakerSpace takes a punt
    • If we build it, will they come…..MakerSpace takes a punt
    • Rio wrap: a real limp deal (where’s the way out?)
    • Australian census confirms healthy trend
    • Australian census confirms healthy trend
    • Still time for the energy revolution
    • Why I’ve gone so quiet: the Mongol Rally 2012
    • Professor Joe Schwarcz - Chemistry & the Importance of Skepticism
    • Science is a Girl Thing! ?
    • Science is messy – for girls too!
    • Science is messy – for girls too!
    • Polar projections
    • another silly homeopathic product
    • edX: What is the future of universities?
    • Print-on-demand books – what’s the hold-up?
    • Print-on-demand books – what’s the hold-up?
    • Print-on-demand books – what’s the hold-up?
    • Brittany asks the big questions
    • Cutting its way into niche/niche market – Tuatahi
    • Cutting its way into niche/niche market – Tuatahi
    • The fast Fourier transform
    • Morgan: "tree-huggers" need reality check
    • How to write a best-seller!
    • Is the food industry ripe for scrutiny?
    • Sharp increase in “nones”
    • Finch report: Shift away from journal subscriptions
    • Geoengineering trial cancelled: more regulation needed
    • Indonesian President promotes “sustainable growth with equity”
    • Web 3.0 + Kiwi IP = connection to the world
    • Web 3.0 + Kiwi IP = connection to the world
    • Web 3.0 + Kiwi IP = connection to the world
    • Why you shouldn't bother buying a thermometer
    • A disciplined discussion
    • Sunday Spineless - How some snails became red-blooded
    • What did Galileo ever do to you?
    • Pure Advantage’s strong central message
    • Double standards when it comes to stalking
    • North & South feature on Alternative Medicine
    • Pure Advantage: green growth is bigger than just carbon
    • A Futures Periodic Table
    • MMS in New Zealand? Say it ain't so.
    • 2013 Public Communicators of Science and Technology Symposium
    • Science Fairs - An Opportunity to Spread a Positive Message about Science
    • Gnu bashing once again
    • Fantastic; more faffing around for an Advanced Technology Institute
    • Fantastic; more faffing around for an Advanced Technology Institute
    • Fantastic; more faffing around for an Advanced Technology Institute
    • The Innovate TB contest
    • reflections on the WEB days
    • There's a little black spot on the sun today...
    • Science communication - they're doing it in Maribor, Slovenia, too
    • Another bad physics joke
    • The prejudiced journalist
    • Timescapes - bliss for nature geeks
    • Crime scene science (infographic)
    • Scientific publishing, with a twist
    • Scientific publishing, with a twist
    • People talkin’ #8
    • a good old debunking - flatulent dinosaurs & aquatic apes
    • Particles and persecution: why we should care about Iranian physicists
    • Kiwi Landing Pad sweetens deal for startups
    • Kiwi Landing Pad sweetens deal for startups
    • Kiwi Landing Pad sweetens deal for startups
    • Gluckman sums up Transit of Venus forum
    • Public or Perish
    • Public or Perish
    • Britain Takes Backward Step in Science Education
    • Pro Science Music Clips
    • Global (Gullible?) Wellness Naturally
    • A Pathway to Sustainable Energy
    • When Brockie goes rogue
    • the great class-size debate
    • another stunning biological image
    • Sabbaticals
    • The Geek Manifesto - required reading
    • The incorrigible Easterbrook
    • A Vision for New Zealand Education 2020
    • Pounamu Reflections
    • Do atheists need religion?
    • High and dry
    • HOW much was outstanding in Legal Aid??
    • Transit of Venus forum in review
    • How deep was Wednesday’s snowfall? The people weigh in
    • Bioinformatics survey results
    • Transit of Venus: A sight for sore eyes
    • Tapping into market knowledge….down at your local library!
    • Tapping into market knowledge….down at your local library!
    • Is Having Children a Right or a Responsibility?
    • Communicating science across cultural divides
    • The unseen transit
    • Transit of Venus
    • Citizen science: How deep is the snow at your place?
    • Should we be drinking 2 litres of water a day?
    • Transit of Venus: Live from Gisborne
    • The dangers of wrapping Christmas presents
    • Mixing values and Jesus in secular education
    • Science gets a rap – Tom McFadden
    • Science gets a rap – Tom McFadden
    • Strangers: the tauhou return
    • Strangers: the tauhou return
    • Life’s a gas
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Nothing to see here
    • The Scamtific Method
    • Another Antarctic ice shelf at risk of melt
    • May ’12 — NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • Pounamu
  • May
    • Scientific knowledge — reliable but not certain
    • Hopeful signs
    • Hopeful signs
    • Some thoughts while stuck in traffic
    • Product development….no place for the faint hearted
    • 20 years on, NZ’s Rio response inadequate: WWF
    • The dead centre of the Garden City
    • nz herald, what are you *thinking* - all kids are psychic?
    • Never mind open access - let's make science really accessible!
    • Professor Joe on Homeopathy - article 2
    • Prof Joe Schwarcz on Homeopathy - article 1
    • Whiny Homeopaths
    • ID by fingerprints: not fact but opinion
    • Weather extremes and climate change
    • One place to access everything digital takes off its training wheels — Unified Inbox
    • Last few days of the #SciFund challenge
    • IEA: emissions up, 2ºC target looking unlikely
    • Creatures of the night - NZ spiders
    • Creatures of the night - NZ spiders
    • sagan on science & society
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Even their eggs are spikey
    • ’Web monkeys’ and science presentation
    • 40% of our post-doctoral fellowships gone? Who's to blame?
    • the worst use for mms yet?
    • The Climate Show #27: Aussie hockeysticks, cherry pies and electric planes
    • Brittany speaks truth to power
    • Is it cold enough yet?
    • Selling out to the mainstream media
    • To the sea! Coastal #Bird Album
    • To the sea! Coastal #Bird Album
    • Dementia — There’s an app for that!
    • Budget 2012: What's in it for science?
    • How much water does it take to produce one litre of milk?
    • How do you store your photos?
    • How do you store your photos?
    • G8: self-deception on energy and climate
    • Venture Solutions operates in commercialisation’s ‘no-man’s-land’
    • every major's terrible (apologies to gilbert & sullivan)
    • University Students prefer Arts over Science
    • does the swiss government *really* support homeopathy?
    • Science no vote winner
    • Have you checked your tyres recently?
    • To PSA or not to PSA
    • To PSA or not to PSA
    • Gene patents in Australia — an ongoing saga
    • Give them enough rope . . .
    • Monckton and the mob
    • beauty in simplicity - a guide to basic critical thinking
    • The Role of Parents in Education
    • Creative space of technology, digital and storytelling tailor-made by Mohawk Media
    • #OAMonday
    • How Much Can We Really Expect From Teachers?
    • how much do we value our teachers?
    • Uncertainty overdone
    • SciFund Challenge - Target achieved!
    • Thoughts on, and for, those trying to choose to vaccinate or not
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Lazy Link Blogging Edition
    • Why won’t Inland Revenue subsidise my life expenses?
    • Super Hero Costumes
    • A sunnier outlook from the ground up
    • The costs and inequalities of diabetes
    • The costs and inequalities of diabetes
    • Murderers, tyrants and madmen (and me)
    • Human morality is evolving
    • The tip of the iceberg- what digital photography really costs
    • The tip of the iceberg- what digital photography really costs
    • A refreshing approach to science
    • ‘Negative know-how’, one way to make money from so-called failure — KiwiNet
    • Big coal coughs up for climate denial ’conference’, takes NZ sceptics along for the ride
    • Mysterious crosses
    • Careers Expo - The Good, the Bad, and the Funny
    • Alphabet soup in Bonn
    • So you’re considering switching to eBooks?
    • Managing obesity in primary care
    • Academic Bloopers
    • Earth in high resolution
    • Culture change
    • #Rhinos- the Aphrodisiac Confusion
    • #Rhinos- the Aphrodisiac Confusion
    • Enspiral’s collective model taking on the world
    • SciFund Challenge Day 13!
    • Stuff unstuffed (a bit)
    • Why going downhill is hard work
    • Welcome to the Anthropocene
    • Capit.url.ism: hyperlinks are a new front in the battle for internet
    • Heterosexual Marriage Better? Australian Medical Association Disagrees.
    • Kotuku-nutupapa or the Royal Spoonbill Photo
    • Kotuku-nutupapa or the Royal Spoonbill Photo
    • symphony of science: the world of the dinosaurs
    • Jeweled Crosses
    • Naturalism in science
    • NZAS Conference follow-up
    • Exor-tainment
    • Bangladesh: on the front line
    • So it might not end after all
    • So it might not end after all
    • Stuff stuff up (another bloody ice age)
    • Electromagnetic fields and the brain
    • Electromagnetic fields and the brain
    • An object lesson in the danger of poor science reporting
    • ’Lose’ your faith, gain your life?
    • 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years
    • Kiwi battery technology charged up on green car opportunities
    • Because the night belongs to wetas
    • Because the night belongs to wetas
    • Building A healthy home for people and the planet
    • Central American Laborers Cut Down By Mystery Kidney Disease
    • Central American Laborers Cut Down By Mystery Kidney Disease
    • New study shows discrimination against obese people
    • musings on national primary science week
    • NZ govt dumps national environmental standard for sea level rise
    • Virga
    • Energy advice ignores the climate crisis
    • What’s in store for eBook readers
    • ‘Do the deals’ commercialisers told — KiwiNet
    • Different place - same old problems
    • Stuffing more science into the New Zealand media
    • Guess what Percentage of the World Thinks it Will End In Their lifetime?
    • Guess what Percentage of the World Thinks it Will End In Their lifetime?
    • Guess what Percentage of the World Thinks it Will End In Their lifetime?
    • Nursery-web spider photos
    • Nursery-web spider photos
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Each thing by its right name
    • Kiwimars Science:Water, water everywhere - but not a drop to drink!
    • Heartland ignorant of public relations — let alone science
    • Dr Joe Schwarcz on the Risks of Homeopathy
    • Climate Deniers make Major PR Blunder
    • Science PhD career preferences surveyed
    • Four Years Student Loans - Another Nail in the Coffin for Science in NZ?
    • Poisonous Heartland, twisted billboards
    • Nature publishes first of the 'weaponised' flu papers
    • The Climate Show #26: All the news that fits
    • A positive STD
    • A positive STD
    • Introducing a new blog: kidney punch
    • How to cheat aging
    • Legal Aid costs and forensic science: the cost of justice?
    • Coal controversy continues
    • Just who are these SciFunders anyway?
    • Shang a de Lange
    • Novel Reaction Vessels for Chemistry
    • Keeping a promise 1
    • Keeping a promise 1
    • Belief and morality
    • The truth about wind energy
    • Four Siberian tigers poached in two weeks
    • Four Siberian tigers poached in two weeks
    • New Zealand academics' salaries still lagging
    • Aquaflow plays its bargaining chips smartly
    • SciFund Challenge: Evolution in Action
    • SciFund Challenge - Day 1!
    • Free eBook - A Planet of Viruses by Carl Zimmer
    • the ero on primary school science: 'should do better'
    • What has science ever done for us?
    • Round 2 of the SciFund Challenge is now live!
    • Consumptionomics
    • A toolkit for organisations and social media
    • Herd thinking, meet herd immunity
    • April ’12 — NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • ‘Release the hounds’ Mr Joyce — let IRL get on with becoming an ATI
  • April
    • Still warmin’ after all these years (Prat watch #5.6)
    • Matuka-moana - the white faced heron
    • Matuka-moana - the white faced heron
    • Nanoparticles Decontaminate Tainted Drinks
    • A partial victory for reason
    • The problem with philosophy
    • Mysterious power generation
    • University of Otago campus loses power
    • The secret life of plankton
    • Sunday spinelessness - live-bearing land snails
    • Class Action Lawsuit Taken Against Major Homeopathy Company and Retailer
    • Puddles and ’fine-tuning’
    • What do Kids Want in Science Education? Why not ask them?
    • Pilots also optional?
    • ABC. Assume nothing. Believe nobody. Check everything.
    • Drivers optional
    • Great science talks in Auckland
    • Rebutting myths and misconceptions about wind energy
    • Science denial is a diversion from the real problems
    • Kiwimars Science: Welcome to Mars
    • Experiments with known answers
    • Startups get a scientific methodology = a simplifying strategy
    • New Zealand viewers: Hawking on Prime
    • Kiwimars 2012: Kiwis doing what Kiwis should
    • Down by the seaside
    • DeSForM — The most inspiring thing I’ve seen in years
    • White-Fronted Terns
    • White-Fronted Terns
    • When the ’best explanation’ is the worst explanation
    • Are You Qualified To Discuss Evolution?
    • An extragalactic mystery: Where do high-energy cosmic rays come from?
    • Dear David, please give us more than science and innovation platitudes
    • Convection and continuity
    • Sam Sam the kidney man
    • Sam Sam the kidney man
    • Toss out the moderator for a better discussion
    • Videogames, aggression, Anders Breivik — let’s not join the dots
    • Sunday Spinelessness - What's brown and sticky?
    • Jesus heals — but not cancer!
    • Aquaflow: next-gen biofuels a commercial reality
    • Forensic science 360 degree crime scene mapping
    • Finding a long-lost treasured item
    • nerd nite 10: Of the Strange, the Alien and the Device
    • Emotional time for Shuttle fans
    • Hansen’s righteous cause
    • NZAS conference - what the politicians said
    • Career Anchors - some clues to a satisfying career?
    • How much salt is in our food?
    • Campbell Live on influenza vaccines
    • The origin of the universe: is there a role for God?
    • Our internet-inspired impatience is only getting worse
    • The most interesting "photo" I've ever taken
    • NZAS 2012 conference impressions
    • The Scale of the Universe
    • Catholic popes victims of sexual abuse!
    • Playing the ecotourist
    • Playing the ecotourist
    • Asking the hard questions
    • The Global Atheist Convention, Melbourne 2012 - A Review
    • Do emerging researchers have a future in NZ?
    • Stop trying to Aucklandise our science and innovation
    • Who is committing fraud here?
    • Morality and the ’worship’ of reason
    • Hot off the Lancet – Earthquake at the Hospital
    • Hot off the Lancet – Earthquake at the Hospital
    • Hot off the Lancet – Earthquake at the Hospital
    • Cuckoo cocoon (Prat Watch #5.5)
    • Emerging NZ Scientists - Catherine Davis and Shalen Kumar, Te Ropu Awhina Mentors
    • What kind of scientist are you?
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Flightless flies
    • Did dodgy rivets sink Titanic?
    • literate primates?
    • The silliness of a self-proclaimed ’investigative journalist’
    • Emerging NZ Scientists - David Winter, Sciblogger at 'The Atavisim'
    • A Celebration of Reason - live from the Global Atheist Convention
    • Weakened NZ ETS not responsible economic management
    • Why do I need to know about quantum mechanics?
    • scientists *do* have a sense of humour :-)
    • Hatchet job on GM pine trees
    • NZ ETS to be watered down (again), but emissions news good
    • Moral behavior in animals
    • Thankfully no tsunami - this time
    • Nope, we’re not going to hell in a handcart
    • if evolution is true, why are there still apes
    • The test with talking in
    • The shape of wind to come
    • Conservatives, liberals and purity
    • Crowdfunding science: The SciFund Challenge
    • Epigenetics overview (video)
    • Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals
    • Funding giant toughens support for open publishing
    • A Tale of Two Species
    • A Tale of Two Species
    • Tearing knickers and why it needs to be done
    • cancer - an example of evolution at the cellular level
    • Legends
    • The trouble with physics?
    • IP ownership change spurs new wool research
    • Canterbury water use, 2010/11
    • International Justice Conference – lessons learned? Probably not yet but it’s a start
    • Short term reforms
    • The importance of NZYPT
    • Is God incredible — or what?
    • Coming soon: more science crowdfunding
    • Hansen’s letter on lignite
    • Emerging NZ Scientists - Jayne Ihaka, Chair of VUW's Science Society
    • George Church on genomics and personalised medicine
    • Emerging NZ Scientists - Dr. Justin Hodgkiss, NZAS conference organiser
    • So you think science is hogwash?
    • And the top journals are…
    • ACC and Ministry of Health: winners in patent battle over computerised healthcare information ‘connectivity’ invention
    • Forward to wikipedia - topic pages in computational biology
    • Prat watch #6: My coup runneth over
    • Greenpeace slapped for ad overstating Rena birdlife deaths
    • What are school qualifications for?
    • TCM and You: Cupping
    • TCM and You: Cupping
    • TCM and You: Cupping
    • TCM and You: Cupping
    • TCM and You: Cupping
    • Science and the folly of faith
    • A bioinformatics periodic table
    • The strange tale of high blood pressure and the cattle prod
    • The strange tale of high blood pressure and the cattle prod
    • How to talk to a denier
    • Chiasma WGTN - the backstory
    • nerd nite Wellington 10, featuring Mars, quantum mechanics and Mad Makers
    • Angels, unsurprisingly, belt-tightening
    • New Evidence of Controlled Fire Use by Ancestors, 1 million years ago, at Wonderwerk (Miracle) Cave, South Africa
    • Clutha River/Mata-Au re-imagined as a public transport system
    • in the lecture theatre - but definitely not giving a lecture!
    • Benefits of student assignments
    • Monday Afternoon Movies: From Daleks to Vectron
    • Monday Afternoon Movies: From Daleks to Vectron
    • Ignoring the future? Sea level rise and NZ’s planning guidelines
    • Emerging NZ Scientists - Dr Natalie Plank, Postdoctoral Fellow with the MacDiarmid Institute
    • Quantum politics
    • Sir Paul Callaghan (1947-2012)
    • Do TED lectures need better vetting?
    • Amber Teething Beads: A Follow-Up
    • Amber Teething Beads: A Follow-Up
    • Amber Teething Beads: A Follow-Up
    • a bag moth in residence
    • Sunday shorts, 1st April 2012. Awards, bullet-proof hard drives and more.
    • Sunday shorts, 1st April 2012. Awards, bullet-proof hard drives and more.
    • Sunday Spinelessness - A marsupial snail
    • Developers invited to a northern hemisphere ‘Summer of Code’
    • March ’12 — NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • Cartophilia (something to pore over)
    • Sexual Re-orientation Achieved Using Homeopathy
  • March
    • Emerging NZ Scientists - Cosmin Laslau, MESA Chairperson
    • What is "Complementary and Alternative Medicine"?
    • Spring forward, fall back: Daylight savings transition
    • Bioinformatics is a sub-discipline of molecular biology
    • A blast from the past (if we knew now what we knew then)
    • Blogimmuniqué: 29-March-2012
    • Another lousy photo of the sun?
    • Prat watch #5: Ignorance is bliss
    • Future History: Apocalypse Then
    • Future History: Apocalypse Then
    • Future History: Apocalypse Then
    • The 7 Deadly Sins get an innovative makeover
    • Hypocrisy rules: Monckton ducks debate
    • The Sand Creatures
    • Political Debates - facts are optional?
    • Torque equals rate of change of angular momentum
    • A NETful of Health Related Pseudoscience in Canterbury
    • Coarse wool’s new course weaving a different path
    • 'scientists anonymous (nz)' write again...
    • Words matter: a politician tells the truth
    • Meat and cancer
    • Sir Paul Callaghan - Mapping Our Future
    • Why Do People Use Alternative Medicine?
    • Why Do People Use Alternative Medicine?
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Looking into the sprial
    • Reasonable truth?
    • Underneath the shade: Homebrew Crew on climate change
    • Impossible angular momentum
    • RIP Sir Paul Callaghan: scientist, businessman, visionary for a better NZ
    • The Climate Show #25: Box on ice (a polar special)
    • A rant for Friday afternoon
    • Take Care on Sunday - New Road Rules
    • Desperate measures - kotuku chicks
    • Desperate measures - kotuku chicks
    • Thinking Jobs in the Future
    • Optimising autoimmune treatment patent invalid: a ‘Law of Nature’ is not a law passed by Congress
    • Aspirin for Cancer Prevention?
    • On the radio
    • Getting the users perspective
    • Getting the users perspective
    • Seduced by logic
    • Kiwiblog kobblers
    • Competition(ish): it’s not computer magic, it’s computer science
    • A fuzzy photo of the sun
    • The world in DNA sequencers
    • Chiasma WGTN
    • Farming’s unfashionable, but there’s a simple fix to make it sexy
    • tertiary teachers & accreditation
    • Techno-failure
    • First, Do No Harm
    • First, Do No Harm
    • The ’public square’ myth
    • Innovation in Wellington
    • Healthy challenge in 100 words
    • Hold that Rice, it may be dangerous or perhaps not…
    • Hold that Rice, it may be dangerous or perhaps not…
    • Upcoming Documentary on Atheism
    • Teaching students to write scientific papers
    • Prat Watch #4: Foundation and Empire
    • Just So Science Reboot!
    • Defining ‘best’ foods is a matter of ‘fact’, not ‘perception’
    • Earth Now — near real-time, map-based climate data from JPL
    • Petridish — the new kid on the science crowdfunding block
    • Tracking a photo's digital DNA
    • Fracking wells and air emissions
    • Science & tech docos find a natural home
    • The Role of Experiments in Science
    • The Role of Experiments in Science
    • Science blogging in the New Zealand media
    • Antibiotics and asthma
    • Chemical Forensics - Seeking Clues at the Molecular Level
    • Dumping light into space
    • Yes, please try this at home!
    • Fracking - we need an independent investigation
    • Tigers returning to Korea - #tiger #conservation
    • Glow sushi!
    • Gaming the system
    • Stupid Arguments against Same-Sex Marriage
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Gotcha!
    • Cascading books
    • To St Patrick’s day and alcohol
    • The Bast Effect: summertime in wintertime
    • Another blow to our SKA chances?
    • A blue family
    • A Philosophical View of Homeopathy
    • parasite goes bananas before s*x
    • The Patents Bill: Please leave it alone until the super ministry is sorted
    • How to avoid a disappointing marriage
    • One for the photographers- counterfeit cards
    • Chimps are our closest relatives... but not for all of our genes
    • The sound of pi — delicious, delicious pi
    • Beyond Religion
    • How Heartland lied to me and illegally recorded the lies
    • Rise of the machines: how computers could control our lives
    • A solution to the world's energy problems?
    • Pure, white and deadly?
    • Mass customisation really does mean it is all about you
    • From dying stars to dust clouds to us - star stuff, all
    • Is education making poaching wildlife worse?
    • Dunedin event: "Global Climate Change Treaty - Can Humanity Deliver?"
    • Ivory wars- conservation back in retreat.
    • A challenge to the dream of reason
    • Bioinformatics curriculum
    • Give us something simple Steven, and also create an S&I council
    • The (supposed) myth of the 8-hour sleep
    • ’Good faith’ science — and its enemies
    • Okay- so what's this spider?
    • A Threshold Concept
    • marathon man, part II (another replay)
    • Sunday Spinelessness - Libera fratercula
    • Is the SKA slipping through our fingers?
    • Japan tsunami anniversary
    • People talkin’ #7
    • The five scariest things about climate change
    • Functional Foods - When the Hype Displaces the Science
    • PhysicsStop is five hundred!
    • "We're so used to getting a prescription that's it's surprising when we don't"
    • Who is a "Professional Scientist"?
    • Green is good- native katydids
    • Uncertainty is not your Friend
    • Bitten by a katipo
    • Truth or lie? Can MRI help scientists read our minds?
    • Safari tip - checking HTML when there is no preview option
    • From the trenches: Michael Mann on Wegman and the climate wars
    • marathon man (rpt)
    • Newton's laws in action
    • Climate change controversy in context
    • Kiwi conference to get to the core of computing opportunity
    • Vitamin C: Primal panacea? Yeah, right!
    • Autism - Exploring the Causes and Potential Treatments
    • I am a pee scientist
    • E-book ponderings
    • What we learned at SCANZ
    • Giant Jurassic Fleas!
    • Science embraced: patent policy merits a brief mention
    • Blogging when your science doesn't easily relate to the public
    • The hydro-illogical cycle
    • Putting your life into perspective
    • Unstoppable waves of innovation in the Waikato?
    • Shy climate denier in ’science team’ reveals himself.
    • Science: are we doing it all wrong?
    • ‘Facing your fears’ the unspoken part of a start-up — Dave ten Have
    • Talking points: endless genomes and microbes, natural products industry, drunk animals, earthquake waves
    • Emotive hysteria trumps opportunity to educate (now there's a surprise!)
    • International Justice Conference: let’s see how it goes….
    • changing teaching techniques
    • Robots that fly ... and cooperate
    • Time well spent?
    • Native lynx spider
    • ensuring student success
    • SCANZ 2012 - How Social is Your Science?
    • Survival of the brightest
    • Sunday Spinelessness - How could I forget Phronima?
    • Sunday Spinelessness - How could I forget Phronima?
    • More free e-books for New Zealanders and Australians
    • The Climate Show #24: John Mashey digs into organised denial
    • The chickens are hatching
    • Inhofe’s ’Hoax’: foolish and dangerous
    • Hobbit production videos
    • SCANZ 2012 - Dr Mark Quigley: Calm and Assured on the Outside
    • Dear journalists and editors,
    • Quiet! I was talking!
    • NZ Herald does no research, helps spread false hope (again)
    • Cellphones track Christchurch's earthquake diaspora
    • ‘Ordered anarchy’ delivers creative projects at better value
    • if meetings really lower iq...
    • The NZ Herald "alternative relaxation and therapies" series revisited
    • The Carter Controversy
    • Upload my brain?
    • Skim - free PDF viewer and annotator for Mac OS
    • February ’12 — NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • I'm not sure I get the point of some of these petitions.
    • Quantum interference
    • Science animation evolves another step
    • ‘Ordered anarchy’ delivers creative projects at better value
  • February
    • Homeopathy in NZ pharmacies revisited: Wartoff and more
    • Protecting your Web
    • Auckland Museum Research and Scholarship Medals, and the future Research Centre
    • A talk
    • A talk
    • The size of things
    • Gene patent debate in Australia — into injury time?
    • Reinventing Fire
    • videos on creationism & evolution
    • Best Analogy of "Integrative Medicine" Ever!
    • Some good news
    • TOSP Episode 22: February 27th 2012
    • cute, creative caminalcules
    • Academic swot and study…..simplified
    • SCANZ 2012 - Context is the Kingdom
    • Antarctic report - wrap up
    • Big Data Money Ball?
    • Rapping it up at SCANZ 2012
    • Elsevier withdraws support for the Research Works Act
    • Tweeting from space
    • Peer review bites back
    • Mindboggling
    • in the rush to 'e-learning', are we losing sight of our goals?
    • Infographic: Buying an iPad 3
    • Black-eyed girl (or in this case, #spider)
    • It’s that brainy week again!
    • Heartland on education: they’d like to teach the world to lie
    • Sunday Spinelessness - They're alive!
    • Sunday Spinelessness - They're alive!
    • Looking for our inner Neanderthal
    • An Insight into Mental Illness
    • anti-vaccination anti-science
    • Are bioinformaticians gods?
    • The bulk of the nation (infographic)
    • Educating People does not equal A "Nanny State"!
    • IAS talks about vaccination
    • Guilty of order-of-magnitude neglect
    • Glenn urinates in space
    • Neutrino problem solved?
    • It's not just heavy, it's a pigeon
    • The Vikings changed culture as well as institutions
    • Excavations at First Mission Station (1814) and Prehistoric Garden Island
    • Flying pigs
    • The Tree of Diversification (or why the March of Progress is wrong)
    • The Tree of Diversification (or why the March of Progress is wrong)
    • One year on
    • A universe in an eBook (or app)
    • Review of ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’, by Eric Carle
    • ISCB response to Research Works Act HR-3699
    • (Not So Simple) Twist Of Fate
    • Faster-than-light neutrinos again
    • Rosie Redfield on 'Arsenic life'
    • here be dragons
    • Co-opting ’Truth’
    • The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
    • The psychology of the Christchurch earthquakes
    • TOSP Episode 21: February 21st 2012
    • have universities degraded to teaching 'only' scientific knowledge?
    • Souvenirs for scientists
    • Unstable weather
    • What is wrong with some people?
    • What becomes of the broken Heartland?
    • Sunday Spinlessness - Amphipods are not prawns (and it matters)
    • Sunday Spinlessness - Amphipods are not prawns (and it matters)
    • Great presentation - watch Hans Rosling on national income and health
    • Heartland Insitute gets mail
    • choosing for the future
    • Sexual assault prosecution: where’s the science fit in?
    • Homeopathy in Canada - the good, the bad and the ugly
    • DNA sequencing on a USB stick-sized device, $US900
    • Minimise the Pain! Archaeological field work techniques, Part 2
    • Heartland’s climategate — and Mann’s book
    • Apple drops another cat at your door
    • The real Climategate: Heartland’s hypocrisy on display
    • The Temptation of Alternative "Medicine"
    • Print the future
    • Hitting sixes
    • The Freedom of Ignorance: Health Freedom, What is it and Do We Want it?
    • The Freedom of Ignorance: Health Freedom, What is it and Do We Want it?
    • Do Patents Really Have Nothing to do With Innovation?
    • Minimise the Pain! Archaeological field work techniques, Part 1
    • The littlest chameleon?
    • Fireflies, luuurve and NASA
    • From Fireflies to Space Invaders
    • Bioluminescence in space!
    • The Benefits of Soil Carbon
    • Antarctic report - Berg-tastic!
    • The old PBRF blues.
    • The mechanics of love
    • Wasted days and nights
    • A geeky valentine
    • From fireflies to space invaders
    • Europe’s big picture research funding backs individual, not institution
    • Photographic fun with NZ parrots
    • 'Flu' flight triggers mild panic
    • Europe’s renewable power continues to increase
    • Kiwi foo’s eye view of Open Science
    • Just WHERE is the South Pole?
    • Free downloads of "Darwin" books for Darwin Day
    • on your bike
    • these legs were made for walking...
    • Darwin Day thoughts
    • Sunday Spinelessness - A fly in the bee garden
    • Sunday Spinelessness - A fly in the bee garden
    • Jamie Oliver Peddling Chemophobia
    • arsenic & old crimes
    • Minister wants all options open
    • Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion 1945-1998
    • Knowing what quality looks like
    • Solar Power - Our Best and Only Answer?
    • The unfettered rage of dismal denial
    • More expansive governance
    • What do scientists look like?, redux
    • Delayed feedback, oscillations and the police
    • ID research and publications
    • Minister Joyce has the opportunity to redefine ‘failure’
    • People talking’ #6
    • wonderful quotes about science
    • Free fall
    • Antarctic Report - Recovery
    • Theological mental gymnastics over evolution
    • Bioinformatics survey
    • Why do some futurists like to create cute or quirky future occupations?
    • On the bear trail, when push comes to shove - students are expendable
    • Doonesbury on denial
    • NZ research gets a showcase portal ….. at last
    • Reframing the Problem of Climate Change
    • The return of sanatoria?
    • what is science?
    • ’What, me worry?’ — distorting climate change data
    • Science and Weight Loss - Day 8: Crash and Burn
    • Sunday Spinelessness - King of the castle
    • Sunday Spinelessness - King of the castle
    • What do scientists look like?
    • Onward to the Edge
    • Uncomfortable parallels
    • When doc don’t know
    • Communicating complex and post-normal science to the policy maker and the public — lessons from New Zealand
    • TOSP Episode 19, featuring spikey nanospheres, iridescent moles, laments and more!
    • Bigger Classes in Schools? Will they ever learn?
    • The depressing thing about being a conservation biologist
    • Journalists vs scientists
    • Academic publishing - are the winds of change starting to blow?
    • For your kids: Scientriffic and Helix
    • Theoretical evolutionary genetics - free e-book
    • Proceedings of the 44th Carnival of Evolution
    • Proceedings of the 44th Carnival of Evolution
    • Introducing a new blog: The Cosmic Engine
    • Free will — problems of definition
    • We’ll surpass government forecast says wind energy association
    • Antarctic report - stuck!
    • A cracker trap minds its own business
    • Science and Weight Loss - Day 4 the BMI
    • Stalking Myths
    • January ’12 — NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • Moving time
    • Online lecture series on genomics and bioinformatics
  • January
    • motivating tomorrow's biologists
    • Naturopathy = Outdated Science + Pseudoscience
    • Are you a realist or a relativist?
    • F1000 Research (squeee!), Higgs hyping and string theory
    • Today's #Kotuku Photo
    • Michael Nielsen on open science
    • Water is rising
    • Science and Weight Loss -Day 2: the Supermarket is Out to Get Me
    • The scientific method — what about the philosophical method?
    • Antarctic report - a dusty birthday
    • Canterbury Lysimeter Network: Measuring the hydrologic inputs to aquifers
    • critical thinking - a classroom resource
    • The catechism of climate crank cliché
    • Sunday Spinelessness - We have bees
    • Letter Rejects Criticism of Homeopathy
    • Science and Weight Loss
    • Psychic Predictions Bland and Uninspired
    • "Other" career paths - #IamScience
    • Stuck in the muddle with Obama
    • A physicist's lament
    • The Internet in Numbers: 2011
    • why things got bigger (rpt)
    • Medical bioinformatics / genomics challenge
    • should universities offer courses in 'alternative & complementary therapies'?
    • OMG! Earth photography pr0n
    • What should be taught in science communication courses?
    • In the front lines of the ’climate wars’
    • New Zealand in 2012 - a snapshot
    • Carnival of Evolution here next week
    • chris stringer talks about human origins
    • Antarctic report - drilling the hydro holes
    • The Official Sciblogs Podcast - Episode 18 - ft. black holes, multicellularity, nanofluidics and molecular golems
    • More science communication goodies in the wake of ScienceOnline2012
    • Quantum Chicken
    • Open Culture: The (internet) keys to the city, and beyond
    • Who is funding the climate change denial groups?
    • web 2.0, postmodernism, & attitudes to science
    • Antarctic report - breaking the ice
    • Puppets on a string: US think tank funds NZ sceptics
    • Chiropractic for the 21st Century
    • Chiropractic for the 21st Century
    • A brave beginning
    • What Will Work
    • Antarctic report - the Italian connection
    • Kiwis have to learn to identify and kill bad ideas — Dorenda Britten
    • One of the Most Profound Psychology Experiments Ever
    • What is the Difference Between a Naturopath and a Homeopath?
    • Potential energy and climbing upwards
    • Antarctic report - hurry up and wait
    • Kinky relationships among Canterbury's springs
    • Science communication potpourri
    • Our fingerprints are all over it!
    • 2011: a hot cold year
    • Sunday Spinelessness - For Ted
    • scientists have cured cancer! - or have they?
    • Citizen Science — Globe at Night
    • NZ (Nearly) Tops Skeptics Chart
    • NZ (Nearly) Tops Skeptics Chart
    • Vitamin C as cancer treatment - Sir Paul Callaghan reviews his trial
    • Animating our DNA*
    • Why I refuse to be a spectator
    • The wrong road to take
    • Do Earthquakes Affect Homeopathic Remedies?
    • The [in]compatibility of science and religion
    • It tastes good! #kaka feeding
    • Innovation’s not easy…and there’s other ways to get value from it
    • TOSP Episode 17 - with special guest host Haritina Mogosanu
    • Science "programming"
    • Greetings, 2012ers
    • Today's #kotuku photo
    • Climate ethics and the reckless endangerment of denial
    • Spotting Pseudoscience - Detox Biocleanse
    • Don't try this one at home
    • Comprehending reality — Should we give up so easily?
    • Rainfall recharge to groundwater
    • Antarctic report - a walk on the ice
    • Gluckman tells Auckland to get cracking
    • it must be the silly season
    • Cranking it out: NZ papers conned by denier media strategy
    • Psychic Called Out on TV
    • Getting the facts straight
    • TOSP Episode 17: January 16th 2012
    • Most Natural Remedies Implausible & Unevidenced
    • Homeopath says to treat a burn... burn it some more
    • #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
    • 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
    • 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?
    • December ’11 — NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
    • On Levels of Evidence
• 2011
  • 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?
    • ‘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
    • 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
    • Liveblog: Durban down to the wire
    • 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
    • Journey to the centre of the washing machine
    • God, UFOs, Life After Death: What do New Zealanders Believe?
    • God, UFOs, Life After Death: What do New Zealanders Believe?
    • 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!
    • 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'?
    • NZ in Durban: delegation gone mad? Or just business as usual?
    • 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
    • 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
  • 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)
    • Lies, damned lies and brutal storms
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Agriculture: National’s double whammy on the environment
    • 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
    • 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
    • #SciFund is up at RocketHub!
    • The Atlas of Economic Complexity
    • 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
    • Confounding Variables
    • As seen on TV
    • Plastics CoE remolds itself into a Polymer Alliance
  • October
    • The coders' quotation quandary
    • What’s your number?
    • 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"
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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!
    • 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’
  • 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
    • 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?
    • 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
    • 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)
    • 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)
    • 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
  • June
    • Don Brash: climate cluelessâ„¢ 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • "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....
    • 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
    • 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
  • 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
    • 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
    • Christchurch earthquake telethon
    • TEDxChCh - TEDx on the Christchurch earthquake
    • Doggie ERVs
    • Visible signs of the rapture
    • 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
    • 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
  • 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 Cluelessâ„¢: 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
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Key’s only sharp arrow — as Minister of S&I
    • 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
    • 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
  • 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’
    • 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)
    • Cheetah genetic diversity revisited
    • Scaling up workshop to hear ‘war stories’, provide conversation spaces
    • 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
    • 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)
  • 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
    • 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
    • RIP Richard Henry
    • Scibloggers featured on Radio New Zealand
    • 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
    • happy new year, & thanks for all the fish
    • NZ cooling since 1909!
    • December ’10 — NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
• 2010
  • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Presence of observers prevents fur seal attacks
    • ‘Inside Innovation’ recognises that we’ve got a lot of work to do
    • 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
    • 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?
  • 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
    • 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?
    • 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!
    • 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
    • Great wildlife photography
    • Singapore still the science all-star
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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?
    • New Zealand Palynology: Into the West
    • Our culture’s deeply embedded, but we can overcome our weaknesses
    • What Makes a Great PhD Supervisor?
    • Biological control gets around insect resistance, set to take on the world
    • Why I have a platinum wedding ring
    • We need more bang from our science buck says Treasury
    • Tuatara tuesday – sex determination in a warming world
    • Cloud operation provides ‘one truth’ for procurement
    • Brave angels leave sharemarket in their wake
    • The word innovation has little meaning
    • The ISS — a decade of growth
    • Anti-Vaccination In NZ
  • October
    • A simple change determines male vs female organ development in flowers
    • Journalism in the age of data
    • Gamblers Rewarded by Near Misses
    • The healthcare irony
    • Complexity and Health — A Rant
    • Hungary's red sludge explained
    • How to make graphene 101
  • September
    • When a glacier ruptures
    • Update on 10,000 genomes and tasmanian devils
    • Bjorn Lomborg on climate change
    • Opening up [I think]
    • Software Freedom Day[s] are here!
    • Canterbury Earthquake - first flyover of fault trace
    • The Death Star: BBC Horizon (1/5)
  • August
    • Making Adult Stem Cells pluripotent
    • Zoom on Supernova 1987a
    • [Open] Science Sunday — 15.08.10
    • Solar Roadways: The Prototype
  • July
    • Movements in the deep
    • Benoit Mandelbrot - fractals and the art of roughness
    • Vinod Khosla's TechNZ keynote
    • What a year on Earth really looks like
  • June
    • Why we can't stop believing
    • Hayabusa space capsule re-entry
    • Thoughts on the experience of publishing papers
    • In honour of Mars500
    • 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science)
  • May
    • I remember because my DNA was methylated
    • "The value of Big Science" - Brian Cox
    • TEDtalk: Closing in on synthetic life
    • Mt St. Helens: 30 years later
    • The search for hidden dimensions
    • Gulf spill: Containing the slick
    • BP's big underwater headache...
    • Can we be Chemical-free?
    • New Zealand garden bird survey 2010
    • Revkin on science and the media
    • Remote Sensing of the Ionosphere: Part 1
    • Omegamation: fish oil is good for you
    • Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean
    • Chimps carry corpses
  • April
    • Stephen Hawking on aliens part 1
    • The pulse-jet powered kayak
    • First images from the Solar Dynamics Observatory
    • Eight arms to hold your camera
    • 10 quirky science tricks for parties
    • Eruption in Iceland
    • 1080 poison and waterways
    • BBC: The Cell — The Hidden Kingdom (6/6)
    • CNN in NZ: Tackling belching cows
    • Soyuz rocket blast-off
  • March
    • Televised climate debate at its worst
    • Large Hadron Collider press conference
    • The acid cheeseburger experiment
    • Sir Ian Axford's legacy - the Giotto probe
    • How much do you tell the kids?
    • BBC: The Cell — The Hidden Kingdom (5/6)
  • February
    • Atheist bus campaign
    • www.FSRL.co.nz/blog – new blog location
    • Wildlife forensics & the UN: fighting illegal fishing
    • Police resources; Mt Eden taxi driver murder
    • Cool science
  • January
    • The nasty job of identifying victims of mass disaster
    • Meth driving
    • Catching a wolf serial killer
    • Cocaine on banknotes
    • UK from space – cool
    • Rubbish criminal – an example
    • Pyschic schmychic
    • Pyschic schmychic
    • Retrospective: Credits, Dis-credits and mis-credits.
• 2009
  • December
    • The gossip test
  • November
    • It's TAM Australia, baby!
    • It's TAM Australia, baby!
    • Degrees of Science Communication
    • Degrees of Science Communication
    • Ares Boldly Goes
    • Ares Boldly Goes
  • October
    • Skepticism can be fun
    • Skepticism can be fun
    • Local skeptics meetups
    • Local skeptics meetups
    • Metagenomics-finding organisms from their genomes
    • Ozone
    • Ozone
    • TVNZ's psychic step too far
    • TVNZ's psychic step too far
    • Pseudoephedrine to be prescription-only
    • New Zealand nature documentaries
    • Auckland Skeptics in the Pub
    • Auckland Skeptics in the Pub
    • The Advertorial
    • The Advertorial
    • The Open Laboratory - the best science blogging around
  • September
    • New ways of farming?
    • Where's the harm?
    • NZ's increasing academic shortage
    • Where's the harm?
    • Don't Panic
    • Don't Panic
    • Skeptical, not cynical
    • Skeptical, not cynical
    • Sciblogs
    • Something wicked this way comes
    • Something wicked this way comes
    • Links I've enjoyed this last week...
    • Cutting the landline - a progress report
    • 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
    • If only...
    • If only...
    • Now Someone’s Talking Properly about what Ails NZ Science
    • Finally the Truth about the so called “Unfortunate Experiment”
    • Relatively Science Humour week: Day 5
    • Relatively Science Humour week: Day 5
    • Relatively Science Humour week: Day 4
    • Relatively Science Humour week: Day 4
    • Relatively Science Humour week: Day 3
    • Relatively Science Humour week: Day 3
    • Relatively Science Humour week: Day 2
    • Relatively Science Humour week: Day 2
    • Laughter is the best medicine
    • Laughter is the best medicine
  • July
    • Supporting Simon Singh
    • Supporting Simon Singh
    • Is swine flu really all that bad?
    • Is swine flu really all that bad?
    • A funny thing happened on the way back from the Moon
    • A funny thing happened on the way back from the Moon
    • Cosmic Rays, Clouds and Climate
    • Cosmic Rays, Clouds and Climate
    • Bad experiment design
    • Bad experiment design
  • June
    • The Power of Probability
    • The Power of Probability
    • Ayuveda in my paper
    • Ayuveda in my paper
  • May
    • Carnival of the Godless
    • Carnival of the Godless
    • Coming Soon
    • Coming Soon
    • New Zealand immunisation disgrace
    • New Zealand immunisation disgrace
  • April
    • Skepticism is hard
    • Skepticism is hard
  • March
    • Patrick Holford on Radio New Zealand
    • Patrick Holford on Radio New Zealand
    • A NZ newspaper article against pseudoscience?