Helen Taylor • Mar 08, 2017 •
Efforts to resurrect extinct species could divert funding away from conserving extant species, but a more basic issue with “de-extinction” is the misinformation surrounding the topic. A recent study by New Zealand and Australian researchers puts a price on “de-extinction”. The team also estimate how many native extant species might be lost by directing these funds away from existing … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Jan 31, 2012 •
Huzzah, more open science news! Plans were released today for the launch of F1000 Research, an F1000 initiative. F1000, for those for whom the name doesn’t ring a bell, are the ‘Faculty of 1000, which release post-publication peer reviews of scientific literature. They often do big metareviews. And they are, at least to my knowledge, [...] … Read More
Darcy Cowan • Jun 29, 2011 •
I try not to just post videos but I was reminded of this skit when contemplating an ad for the highly priced (and prized) RWC 2011 tickets, and remarks over it being an “Historic Event”. Filed under: Sciblogs, Uncategorized Tagged: comedy, football, historic, hype, Mitchell and Webb, overhyped, pointless, rugby … Read More
Michael Edmonds • Feb 12, 2011 •
The other day I was channel surfing and caught the end of a short clip on nanotechnology on one of the documentary channels. I thought this would be interesting to watch as I am off to A Big Discussion About Small Things at the Christchurch College of Education next week. However I was very annoyed to hear the presenter make a very … Read More