A very quick pointer, for those who don’t see my tweets :) Once again, arXiv.org rises to the fore*, with an interesting application for alcohol. Not content with fighting cancer and improving lifespan, or being good for our bones (and I’m sure that research will at some point show that single malt whisky** is highly […]
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The Twitterverse, courtesy of Brian Solis… [Make clicky for hi-res image]
Google launches STEM competition
I’ve just received a press release from Google, about a competition which looks kinda cool :) On January 11th, they’re going to be launching the (first ever, as is so common with the company) Google Online Science Fair. Because of its online nature, it means it can be global pretty easily, and it’s open to […]
Introducing a new blog: sticK
Gosh, what a week :) Yes, we’re happy to introduce you to our third new blogger, Peter Kerr, whose content we’re syndicating over from his blog sticK - science, technology, innovation & commercialisation KNOWLEDGE. Fascinating subject matter, this. The name of the blog really says it all, so all we’ll say is ‘Welcome, Peter’! You […]
Brilliant photos of small things
Being a large fan of all things small, particularly when one is able to take photos of them, I bring you this: Yes, the results for this year’s Nikon Small World competition are in. Each year, the competition takes in entries of the best microscopy on the web, and then hurls awards at the ones […]
Interesting bitties: different alphas, plastic to oil, drunk voles and a fry
Whilst in the process of writing other, more long-form posts, I thought I’d throw you all the proverbial bone. Or, to be more precise, smattering of things wot I has found interesting today, and which you might find interesting too. First up! Akinori Ito goes down as favourite human being of the day. It would […]
Interesting bits: starving to stay awake, and an LCA on Li-Ion
I have seen many interesting sciencey things this week. Which makes sense, given that a large part of my job is to track new research. Sadly, and for the sake of brevity, I’ve had to pick but two for this post. Starving to stay awake? Another interesting factoid related to, well, taking in less calories […]
Introducing a new blog: Southern Science
Hurrah! Today, I introduce the first of a number of new bloggers starting over the next few months. The Southern Genes blog, to be contributed to by a number of people from Genetics Otago, aims not only to talk about genetic science, but also to examine its effects on our society and to showcase some […]
Great sciencey watchables
August looks set to be an absolute cracker for that segment of my readership who a) likes to watch science-related programming and b) has access to TVNZ 7 (hilariously, I don’t actually fit into the latter group). Still, even if you don’t, then guaranteed you’ll have a friend who does, and it’s a handy excuse […]
All kinds of trippy goodness - food as scanned by MRI
Hah! Still alive! (Possibly) A little bit of very intriguing strangeness today. And yes, a brief post too. Still, the amount of time spent watching this in fascination should hopefully make up for that. Some very interesting person took a bunch of different foods, and bunged them into an MRI scanner. For the fun of […]