To paraphrase: not much, and what there is is often conflicting. So says a fantastic new infographic from my favourite data visualisation prOn website, Information Is Beautiful. Even better, the graphic is actually interactive, which means you can have a… Read more ›
Bizarre, I know. O_o In the category ‘best blog – chemistry, physics or astronomy‘. And I’m a newbie… No one’s confessed to nominating me, though. To be perfectly honest, I had no idea they existed, let alone that I had… Read more ›
Of course you would! Who wouldn’t? And have it you can. As I came into the work this morning, blearily clearing emails as I attempted to mainline some caffeine, I came upon an email most arresting. From an American company,… Read more ›
I just boggled. Quite a lot. I’ve just started skimming through an extremely interesting paper entitled 30 Years in Science: Secular Movements in Knowledge Creation. It takes global publication data from the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) database over the… Read more ›
Part II: How far along they are, how they’re battling and how we’re benefiting Having set out the basics of the bioscience industry – who’s doing what, in essence – I though it would be interesting to see how the… Read more ›
Part I: The basics Today, StatisticsNZ released a, well, release on bioscience in NZ. Who’s doing it, where, what it’s costing them and what they’re making of of it. And, of course, what they’re actually doing. To explain, then: the… Read more ›
Apparently, the New York Times has a list of its most emailed articles, and researchers looking at the list have found something surprising (and wonderful) – that science-related articles are amongst the most emailed. I know! One would have thought… Read more ›
I can hear the whoops of joy emanating around the world. Joined, of course, by mine. For years, we’ve known that a glass or two of the vino has its benefits. However, I’ve never heard of anything particularly beneficial coming… Read more ›
Yes, that was indeed an H2G2* reference. I sneak ‘em in whenever I can… Asimo, by Honda This is just a short post to point you all in the direction of a marvellous little video put together by the makers… Read more ›
Well, wonders will never cease. Not only is water already one of the strangest,and most interesting fluids/substances around, but clever scientists from the University of Tokyo just added another layer of WTFness. In essence, they have developed a sort of… Read more ›