Excellent stuff, this, and a fitting way of both apologising for my recent absence, and attempting to be sufficiently interesting to lure my readers (who have no doubt wandered) back to the fold. The topic of today’s post? Why space… Read more ›
Interested in architecture? Like sciencey things? Well, we have the blog for you! Ken Collins, one of the directors of lab-works, will be penning a blog, The Science of Architecture, all about architecture from, you guessed it, a science perspective. … Read more ›
Remember last year’s What’s Your Problem New Zealand competition, won by Resene? Well, Grow Wellington, the regional economic development agency which has been tasked with making greater Wellington internationally competitive, has come up with rather a fun idea. Entitled the… Read more ›
Just a brief note to our bloggers and readers: we’ve just hit 2001 posts! (This will make it 2002, of course) I was hoping to announce it at the round number, as it were, but Peter’s latest (sneaky) infographics post… Read more ›
I heart TED – something to which I’m sure I’ve confessed in past. This morning, I got a fantastic email with some of the latest talks to be posted on TED. While they’re all (of course) brilliant, I’ll make special… Read more ›
Wondering whether to feel ashamed or not, I suddenly thought ‘but wait – isn’t this part of the whole point?’. So onwards… Anyway, for anyone who’s in the Tauranga (26th April) or Hamilton (27th April) areas later this month, I’m… Read more ›
I got sent the glorious picture below a brief parcel of time ago, and it made me happy. And, since it’s a Friday and I’m feeling magnanimous, I thought I’d spread the love to all my science geeks. In particular,… Read more ›
This week marks the inaugural meeting of the Global Research Alliance (GRA). For those of you not familiar with it, it’s probably one of the best things to come out of last year’s largely-failed Copenhagen talks. The idea had first… Read more ›
I do so love it when people make accessibly, entertaining, highly educational science stuff. In the latest of such moves, researchers from EMBL and the Mitocheck Consortium (both in Europe) have built up a library of movies showing what happens… Read more ›