Tagged: development

The secret life of puddles: their value to nature is subtle, but hugely important - The Changing Climate

Guest Author • Mar 30, 2021 •

• Biodiversity,
• Climate,
• development,
• Nature

Gregory Moore, The University of Melbourne It’s official: Australians endured the coldest, wettest summer in at least five years thanks to La Niña, a climate phenomenon over the Pacific Ocean. Before we knew it, autumn rolled in bringing more rain. Tragically, it led to widespread flooding across New South Wales, but elsewhere it helped to create more puddles. Read More

Children aren’t liabilities in disasters – they can help, if we let them - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 10, 2018 •

• Australia,
• children,
• development,
• Disabilities,
• disaster,
• DRR,
• involvement,
• methods,
• New Zealand,
• participation,
• reduction,
• school,
• school safety,
• stratefies,
• United Nations,
• Wollongong

Christine Eriksen, University of Wollongong; Avianto Amri, Macquarie University; Briony Towers, RMIT University; Emma Calgaro, University of Sydney; John Richardson, University of Melbourne; Katharine Haynes, Macquarie University, and Scott McKinnon, University of Wollongong This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original … Read More

Is psychiatry ready for medical MDMA? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 30, 2018 •

• clinical psychology,
• Depression,
• development,
• Drugs,
• MDMA,
• medication,
• Psychiatry,
• Psychology,
• psychotherapy,
• PTSD

Gillinder Bedi, University of Melbourne This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Within five years, science will likely have answered a controversial question: can methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) treat psychiatric disorders? After some studies showing a positive effect, MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is entering final clinical trials as a treatment for post-traumatic stress … Read More

Bottle fed infants: fluoridated water not a problem - Open Parachute

Ken Perrott • May 04, 2017 •

• babies,
• bottle fed,
• development,
• fluoridation,
• fluoride,
• formula,
• Health and Medicine,
• infants,
• Science,
• Science and Society

New recommended fluoride dietary intakes by infants and young children in Australia and New Zealand were recently published. The updated values are available online at Nutrient Reference Values for Australia and New Zealand. This is a regular update – the Australian National Health and Medical research council advises these recommendations be reviewed every 5 years. But the new recommendations are interesting because … Read More

Homo economicus: Why do we keep swallowing the Kool Aid? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Sep 23, 2016 •

• Behavioural economics,
• development,
• Diet,
• economics,
• epigenetics,
• homo economicus,
• junk food,
• nutrition,
• public health,
• Taxes

This is the final post in the three-part guest series from the Morgan Foundation’s Jess Berentson-Shaw and Geoff Simmons exploring the legacy of the myth of the rational human – Homo economicus. In our previous post we looked at how Homo economicus thinking ignores so much of what we know about human behaviour, especially in relation to public … Read More

Homo economicus: Public Health - Guest Work

Guest Author • Sep 22, 2016 •

• Behavioural economics,
• development,
• Diet,
• epigenetics,
• homo economicus,
• junk food,
• nutrition,
• public health,
• Taxes

This guest post from the Morgan Foundation’s Jess Berentson-Shaw and Geoff Simmons is the second in a series of three exploring the legacy of the myth of the rational human – Homo economicus. As outlined in our first post , it’s time to ditch the myth of rational humans – homo economicus. The trouble is that many economists haven’t … Read More

Sustainable Trade in Wildlife Symposium - Chthonic Wildlife Ramblings

Brendan Moyle • Jun 29, 2015 •

• alligators,
• butterflies,
• conservation,
• development,
• Economics,
• economics of wildlife trade,
• wildlife trade

The reason there has not been a lot of photos of seascapes of late, is I’ve been out of the country. Again.  The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, and the International Trade Center, organised the symposium for the 18th and 19th of June.  I was presenting as one of the keynote speakers. It was somewhat fortunate that the first … Read More

Right…a way to crunch a business model from good research ideas - Stick

Peter Kerr • Jun 17, 2015 •

• contract writer,
• Creative HQ,
• development,
• Early stage science,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• Market validation,
• Prototyping,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• Startup Weekend Research and Science,
• university,
• writer for hire

Here’s an interesting innovation move, one to be applauded. It’s Startup Weekend Science and Research, in Wellington at Creative HQ from Friday July 3 to Sunday 5. Interesting because its the first time a non-digital (as such) Startup Weekend event’s been … Continue reading → … Read More

At last…an innovation accelerator aimed at physical products - Stick

Peter Kerr • Jun 11, 2015 •

• Angel investment,
• Callaghan Innovation,
• contract writer,
• development,
• entrepreneur,
• high tech,
• innovation,
• Lightning Lab Manufacturing,
• Lower Hutt,
• Prototyping,
• Sciblogs,
• Shawn O'Keefe,
• start-up,
• writer for hire

Right, something you can get your teeth into…literally – Lightning Lab Manufacturing. So, instead of a 12 week accelerator to figure out how to take a digital idea out to the world, the same sort of programme but aimed at … Continue reading → … Read More

Do Kiwis have a certain je ne sais quoi with regard to Startup Weekends – or is that wishful thinking? - Stick

Peter Kerr • May 05, 2015 •

• contract writer,
• development,
• entrepreneur,
• George Smith,
• Glass Jar,
• high tech,
• IT,
• Sciblogs,
• start-up,
• Startup Weekend,
• writer for hire

Having been lucky enough to be around a couple of startup things in the past few weeks – I’ll take the opportunity to reflect. The first occasion was a Skype interview at Wellington’s Creative HQ with George Smith, the founder … Continue reading → … Read More