Chris Barton writing in today’s New Zealand Herald slams the section 92a provisions of the Copyright (New Technologies) Amendment Act […]
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Scientists and other thinkers talk about science and society and the connection between the two.
NZ Herald: Mike Lee on the Hauraki Gulf as a marine park
Mike Lee, Hauraki Gulf conservationist and chairman of the Auckland Regional Council, laments the slow progress towards establishing the Hauraki […]
Continue readingGenetic testing – the legal and ethical questions
Lawyers, scientists and health officials gathered in Wellington yesterday to discuss the findings of the University of Otago’s Human Genome […]
Continue readingPaul Callaghan: Wool to Weta – Herald feature
Dr Paul Callaghan, Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences at Victoria University has just launched his book Wool to Weta: […]
Continue readingOwen Hembry: Food miles issue still a vital one
Owen Hembry writing in the Herald about the latest NZIER report on food miles. An excerpt from the column, published […]
Continue readingSustainability and the financial crisis
“No country, not even one as geographically isolated as New Zealand, is insulated from the damages of a global financial […]
Continue readingCrocodiles in Canada, palm trees at the poles
55 million years ago, the Earth was a much warmer place than it is today. Shockingly warm, in fact. And […]
Continue readingPODCAST: Tomiko Yamaguchi on reporting of GMOs in Japan
Another podcast of a presentations of research at the Science Technology and Society workshop held in Wellington in early December […]
Continue readingScientists on planet Earth’s ‘Plan B’
In a New Year special, Britain’s The Independent asked 80 scientists what we can do to attempt to save the […]
Continue readingKirstie Knowles: Human predators driving sharks to the brink
Kirstie Knowles, marine conservation advocate for Forest & Bird, writes in today’s Herald about the devastating impact of long-line fishing […]
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