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Archive: Fri May 2018
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AI can help in crime prevention, but we still need a human in charge
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Guest Work
April ’18 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking
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Open Parachute
How plastic-eating bacteria actually work – a chemist explains
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Guest Work
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Language lost and found – keeping your mother tongue going one song at a time
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Lippy Linguist
Is your genome really your own? The public and forensic value of DNA
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News
Thanks Mum and Dad! Reef fish inherit tolerance to warming oceans
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News
Six ways to improve water quality in New Zealand's lakes and rivers
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Guest Work
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Publication Bias
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The Dismal Science
From #MeToo to #RiceBunny: how social media users are campaigning in China
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Guest Work
DNA facial prediction could make protecting your privacy more difficult
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Guest Work
The final cut: crank paper on NZ temperature record gets its rebuttal – warming continues unabated
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Hot Topic
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Our soils: more than meets the (developer’s) eye
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Guest Work
Unemployment doesn't strike evenly...
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The Dismal Science
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I watched an entire Flat Earth Convention for my research – here's what I learnt
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Guest Work
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How artificial intelligence can detect – and create – fake news
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Guest Work
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Take it from me: neuroscience is advancing, but we're a long way off head transplants
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Guest Work
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Does good grammar really matter?
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Lippy Linguist
The current eruption of Kīlauea: could it happen in Auckland
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Guest Work
Personalised Supplements
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Honest Universe
Children living in green neighbourhoods are less likely to develop asthma
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Guest Work
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Mind the gap
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The Dismal Science
The latest from Juno as Jupiter appears bright in the night sky
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Guest Work
Not just another rat study
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Open Parachute
10
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Magic water nonsense
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BioBlog
Talking about what we should teach
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BioBlog
How do jellyfish have sex?
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Guest Work
Crowding out
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The Dismal Science
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Otago and disagreement
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The Dismal Science
Rape: Through a glass darkly
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Mind Matters
Faking HPV vaccine claims, in more ways than one
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Code for life
12
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Move over ASIA now we have HANS
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Diplomatic Immunity
Good science doesn't guarantee public acceptance – diverse evidence may help
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Guest Work
13
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Infertility through the ages – and how IVF changed the way we think about it
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Guest Work
HIV infection animated
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Code for life
14
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Ancient ancestors of modern baleen whales were toothy not-so-gentle giants
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Guest Work
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Do we care about the future? Why New Zealand needs an agreed framework for how we value future lives
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Guest Work
Earthquake science could have predicted North Korea's nuclear climbdown
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Guest Work
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Acupuncture during IVF doesn't increase chances of having a baby
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Guest Work
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NZ budget 2018: gains for health, housing and education in fiscally conservative budget
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Guest Work
I took NZ weight loss pill Calocurb and the side effects were… disturbing
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Guest Work
Climate change is a security threat – so where is the UN Security Council?
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Guest Work
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Aerosols: the disco balls of Earth’s atmosphere
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Guest Work
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Lessons in resilience: what city planners can learn from Hobart's floods
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Guest Work
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What is 5G? The next generation of wireless, explained
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Guest Work
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Flat Earthers vs climate change sceptics: why conspiracy theorists keep contradicting each other
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Guest Work
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How competition benefits women's pay
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The Dismal Science
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The M7.1 Īnangahua earthquake - 50 years ago today
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Guest Work
Lava in Hawai'i is reaching the ocean, creating new land but also corrosive acid mist
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Guest Work
25
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Gene Therapy and The Breakthrough Myth
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Guest Work
Regulatory Catch-22?
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The Dismal Science
26
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Apple boards bendy once again
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Code for life
How birds survived the dinosaur-killing asteroid
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Guest Work
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NZ Police pursuits keep killing people
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Honest Universe
New Zealand's hoki fishery under scrutiny after claims of fish dumping, misreporting
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Guest Work
‘Fake author’ papers opposing HPV vaccine retracted, editor's defence
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Code for life
29
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Science or Snake Oil: what is black salve and why do people think it can cure cancer?
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Guest Work
How parenthood continues to cost women more than men
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Guest Work
Why are we gifting so much to farmers?
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The Dismal Science
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History & 'right to try'
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BioBlog
Anti-fluoridation activists buy scientific credibility using a predatory publisher
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Open Parachute
Preliminary report on Uber's driverless car fatality shows the need for tougher regulatory controls
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Guest Work
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Kea catching, moose hunting and Juuling - some of May's great stories
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Lately, In Science
Smoke, heat or vapour? Ideas for risk-proportionate regulation to make World Smokefree Day irrelevant by 2025
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Unsorted
Why blowing the 1.5C global warming goal will leave poor tropical nations sweating most of all
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Guest Work
Our soils: more than meets the (developer’s) eye
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Guest Work
Guest Author
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May 04, 2018
Unemployment doesn’t strike evenly…
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The Dismal Science
Donal Curtin
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May 04, 2018
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