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Archive: Thu Mar 2018
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Why we put money into bizarre cryptocurrencies like ponzicoin and cryptokitties
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Guest Work
Give it a minute or so before clamping the cord
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News
Opinion: Turn off the TV
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Guest Work
Can coffee improve your workout? The science of caffeine and exercise
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Guest Work
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Starfish can see in the dark (among other amazing abilities)
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Guest Work
Aotearoa Bike Challenge 2018
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Chthonic Wildlife Ramblings
Competition and search in internet markets for used books
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The Dismal Science
AI can now make fake porn, making revenge porn even more complicated
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Guest Work
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Why Barbra Streisand's cloned dogs aren't identical to the original pet
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Guest Work
How does a Virus-Blocking Bacterium operate in Mosquitoes?
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News
A tale of two penguins: Bice and Rosie
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Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives
Yes the 'cheerleader effect' is real – and you can make it work in your favour
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Guest Work
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How landline phones made us happy and connected
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Guest Work
Paul Connett’s misrepresentation of maternal F exposure study debunked
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Open Parachute
The Big Debate: Euthanasia & New Zealand
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Guest Work
Opinion: Let's celebrate the Humanities more
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Guest Work
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New Rules for Pharmacists
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Honest Universe
Health Check: what caused my stye and can I get rid of it?
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Guest Work
UNICEF and friends VS the outspoken Anti-vaxxers
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BioBlog
Amazonian dirt roads are choking Brazil's tropical streams
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Guest Work
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Brain imaging shows senior moments are selective
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News
China's quest for techno-military supremacy
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Guest Work
Sweet Relief: Eric Crampton on the Sugar Tax
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The Dismal Science
Four ways alcohol is bad for your health
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Guest Work
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Jupiter: scientists spot pentagon pattern of cyclones – and unlock secrets of the planet's interior
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Guest Work
The Big Debate: Reasons for the legalisation of Euthanasia
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Guest Work
Cool! Antarctic krill can turn microplastics into nanoplastics
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News
Why social media are more like chocolate than cigarettes
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Guest Work
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Little future houses on the prairie
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Ariadne
Future tense: how the language you speak influences your willingness to take climate action
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Guest Work
Rational addiction and Naloxone
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The Dismal Science
Nerve agents: what are they and how do they work?
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Guest Work
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Yes, too much sugar is bad for our health – here's what the science says
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Guest Work
Anti-fluoride group coordinator responds to my article
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Open Parachute
Why is one person's science another's conspiracy theory?
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BioBlog
Ivory up in flames, but who really noticed? How messages on elephant poaching might be missed
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Guest Work
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Explainer: why you can hear gravitational waves when things collide in the universe
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Guest Work
Standardised packaging: A new era in reducing tobacco marketing in NZ
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Public Health Expert
Mary Byrne’s criticism is misplaced and avoids the real issues
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Open Parachute
There are dozens of sea snake species in the Indian and Pacific oceans, but none in the Atlantic or Caribbean. Why?
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Guest Work
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I’ve always wondered: why is a green screen green?
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Guest Work
Opinion: Mike King on NZ's suicide rates
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Guest Work
Remembering Stephen Hawking
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Guest Work
When we lose weight, where does it go?
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Guest Work
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What can AI do right now?
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Ariadne
How tattoos stay put thanks to a war with your immune system
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Nano Girl
The deregulated interregnum
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The Dismal Science
The slippery grammar of spoken vs written English
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Lippy Linguist
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Future foods of the dogs
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Ariadne
Large-scale genetic study provides new insight into the causes of stroke
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News
We surveyed Borneo's orangutans and found 100,000 had 'disappeared'
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Guest Work
Through the looking glass: Fossils reveal a Miocene Wonderland at St Bathans
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Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives
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Black holes aren't totally black, and other insights from Stephen Hawking's groundbreaking work
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Guest Work
Book Review: The Tale of Mrs Possum - A Reflection on NZ Society
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Scibooks
Dietary counselling – how effective and cost-effective is it?
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Public Health Expert
Why Wikipedia often overlooks stories of women in history
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Guest Work
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Who’s to blame when driverless cars have an accident?
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Guest Work
There are horses for courses, but snails for faces?
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BioBlog
Weird Science: Why I study bird sperm
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Wild Science
Why mental health treatment is not an easy solution to violence
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Guest Work
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The revolution that wasn’t: African tools push back the origins of human technological innovation
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Guest Work
What we owe our pets
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Honest Universe
Why is it so difficult to get an open discussion on fluoridation?
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Open Parachute
60 years in orbit for 'grapefruit satellite' – the oldest human object in space
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Guest Work
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#MeToo must also tackle online abuse
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Guest Work
Opinion: Eric Crampton on the Psychoactive Substances Amendment Bill
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The Dismal Science
Frozen embryos better than fresh for women struggling to get IVF to work
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News
Opinion: The importance of hearing the stories behind the statistics
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Guest Work
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Electric vehicles are their consequences
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Ariadne
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Posts published on this day
Proteins- not just a food group
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Unsorted
World-first study links birth interventions and long-term childhood illness
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News
A century of health inequalities in NZ – new data
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Public Health Expert
My dyslexic perspective on academia – and how I found science communication
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Guest Work
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Posts published on this day
Future 'ocean cities' need green engineering above and below the waterline
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Guest Work
Proteins- not just a food group
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News
Wrinkles, liver spots, crows' feet: what happens to our skin as we age?
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Guest Work
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Gene therapies are proving their worth, but with million dollar price tags, it's not clear who should pay for them
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Guest Work
The 52 IQ studies used by anti-fluoride campaigners
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Open Parachute
Audrey Eagle's Botanical Drawings
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A History of NZ Science in 25 Objects
Your online privacy depends as much on your friends’ data habits as your own
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Guest Work
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With China's space station about to crash land, who's responsible if you get hit by space junk?
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Guest Work
Epilepsy drug exposure in womb linked to significantly poorer school test results
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News
Psychographics: the behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica know voters' minds
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Guest Work
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A conference paper on the maternal neonatal urinary fluoride/child IQ study has problems
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Unsorted
A new organ?
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Code for life
Is psychiatry ready for medical MDMA?
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Guest Work
Yawn! Social jetlag is associated with decreased academic performance
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News
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I’ve always wondered: why is a green screen green?
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Mar 15, 2018
Opinion: Mike King on NZ’s suicide rates
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Jean Balchin
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Mar 15, 2018
Remembering Stephen Hawking
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Guest Work
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Mar 15, 2018
When we lose weight, where does it go?
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Guest Work
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Mar 15, 2018
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