The discussion of how to increase our agricultural/horticultural output is hardly a new one. In fact, it’s been a mainstay of human development – ever-larger populations of people has brought with it the challenge of how to ramp up ways of feeding the… Read more ›
I was most interested to read this article in the ODT today.It talks about the University of Otago’s plans to futureproof (what a catchphrase) itself against what, apparently, is a steadily increasing shortage of tertiary academics in New Zealand as we… Read more ›
A quick note…The reason I’ve been absent the last little while is because of this marvellous thing, on which we’ve been working (real) hard the last few weeks. Yes, the SMC presents Sciblogs.* fanfare *Note: it launches officially on Wed, which means… Read more ›
…but didn’t have the time to post. For a number of reasons, including:madness at work (in a good way) , which is only set to increase due to the upcoming launch (yay!!) of Sciblogs. We’ve gotten some good coverage for it over the last few weeks, st… Read more ›
I’m sure everyone is familiar with Shrodinger’s Cat, the infamous quantum-mechanical thought experiment (apparently, it was first posited as a sort of laughing attempt to put in real terms some of quantum mechanics’ more…interesting…theories). We… Read more ›
Nature has published their special data-sharing issue, which can be found here. An extremely timely issue, I might add, give how topical the subject is (see here and here).There’s a lot of interesting stuff in here, including articles about what seems… Read more ›
Sense about Science, a UK not-for profit organisation dedicated to improving the understanding of science issues, has released the prelim findings of its Peer Review Survey (full details out in November). The results were released early this morning, … Read more ›
I don’t have access to the full article, sadly (aaarg), so this tiny tidbit from the Medical Journal of Australia will have to do.In essence, it says that the evidence for reflexology working is, well, not there. Yes, the foot rub is quite cool (apart… Read more ›
“But”, I hear you murmer, “we knew this already!”And yes, intuitively, I guess many of us do. Despite this, it still doesn’t stop many people doing it, on a regular basis. Some might even say that networking somewhat encourages it. Well, networking … Read more ›
This post was generated by the marvellous webcomic, below, from David Malki’s Wondermark (a fascinating project in and of itself).As usual, click on the image to make it legible. Weblink here.Witticisms aside, the first thing that came to mind was the… Read more ›