How has the New Zealand media approached the touchy issue of genetic modification? By marginalising interest groups pointing out the […]
Continue readingReflections on Science
Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
Blackman: Humanity strand of Rutherford legacy
Dr Allan Blackman, associate professor in the chemistry department at the University of Otago, write’s about Sir Ernest Rutherford’s support […]
Continue readingMonbiot: Report futile in the face of runaway climate change
From The Guardian, December 2, a column by George Monbiot commenting on Lord Turner’s cliamte change report. More at Monbiot’s […]
Continue readingUpton: We need new middle ground on climate change
Simon Upton on the way forward for tackling climate change. Read in full here. “…for the sake of environmental credibility […]
Continue readingCalculating the emissions from a ‘standard cow’
An opinion piece from Australia businessman Tom Quirk, who spent 15 years as an experimental research physicist, university lecturer and […]
Continue readingBBC: Can GM save the world?
An essay by BBC TV host Jimmy Doherty, who traveled the world to look at GM crops as part of […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Public discussion of GMOs
The ISBGMO conference being held in Wellington this week culminated in a public forum which gave Wellingtonians the opportunity to […]
Continue readingRudman: Ditch fruitcake views on climate change
New Zealand Herald columnist Brian Rudman on ACT leader and minister outside cabinet Rodney Hide’s “fruitcake views on global warming”. […]
Continue readingJeff Tallon: Science is not egg-headed!
The best science opinion piece published in New Zealand this week has to be the letter to the editor in […]
Continue readingAre copyright laws suffocating digital creativity?
The Herald’s senior feature writer and former technology editor Chris Barton got along to the public lecture held by law […]
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