Guest Author • Jul 28, 2017 •
Richard Faragher, University of Brighton If you are reading this and you don’t smoke, then your major risk factor for dying is probably your age. That’s because we have nearly eliminated mortality in early life, thanks to advances in science and engineering. But despite this progress, we still haven’t worked out how to eliminate the damaging effects … Read More
Sarb Johal • Mar 27, 2017 •
Now, creepy is a phrase you may have been hearing a lot more over the last two or three years, and often it’s used in the context of unwanted advances – usually by a male after a female. But, creepy can also be used to describe things or places, such as a house, or an area that people are not … Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Jul 23, 2015 •
Researchers find screams occupy a special auditory space and cut straight to the parts of the human brain that process fear and danger. Read More
Siouxsie Wiles • Apr 30, 2014 •
According to this press release, researchers at McGill University in Montreal have discovered that the presence of a male researcher (or even his worn t-shirt) stresses laboratory mice and rats, the equivalent to making them swim for 3 minutes or restraining them in a tube for 15 minutes. The research has just been published in the … Read More
Peter Kerr • Mar 06, 2012 •
Ponoko co-founder Dave ten Have fronted up to Unlimited Potential’s ‘Tech Founders Blast Talks’ in mid-February with some extremely frank and honest comments. It’s ten Have’s second internet-based start-up, with Wellington-originated, globally-operating Ponoko being a bit of poster child for … Continue reading → … Read More