The Association for Women in the Sciences, in association with Dr Belinda Bray of The University of Auckland, have produced […]
Continue readingReflections on Science
Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
Ken Ring lunacy gets spooned
The media coverage of ‘moon man’ Ken Ring’s theories has been given the dubious honour of the Bent Spoon, the […]
Continue readingVincent Heeringa talks SMC on Radio NZ
This weekend, Radio New Zealand’s Kim Hill caught up with Vincent Heeringa – Director of Tangible Media Ltd, co-founder of […]
Continue readingScientist, politician, patriot
Writing for the New York Times, Cornelia Dean looks at a new US initiative aiming to get scientists out of […]
Continue readingWhy scientists won’t debate Lord Monckton
The New Zealand Herald Online has published a strongly-worded editorial from Australian cognitive scientist Stephan Lewandowsky on the nature of […]
Continue readingClimate change complexity
In today’s New Zealand Herald, meteorologist Jim Hessell describes the complexity of the earth’s atmosphere and how it will react […]
Continue readingOwen Glenn: science & innovation key
In an opinion piece for the New Zealand Herald, businessman Owen Glenn makes a case for science and innovation to […]
Continue readingSalt – how much is too much?
Writer Kate Fraser investigates the health effects of salt and what we are doing to mitigate them. An excerpt (from […]
Continue readingScience media discussions from Doha
Science Media Centres now exist in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Japan, with more on the horizon. But […]
Continue readingWill ‘Playing God’ be our saviour?
In an article published in the Dominion Post , environmental author Mark Lynas explains why mankind must embrace technologies like […]
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