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Talking to Imogen Neale on Bfm’s The Wire show about what’s making the headlines this week in the world of science and technology.
Written on July 31, 2008 | Posted in Scitech bytes | Leave a comment
Talking to Imogen Neale on Bfm’s The Wire show about what’s making the headlines this week in the world of science and technology.
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LCD vs plasma, HDMI and DVI, Blu-ray and Freeview HD… I went TV shopping with Radio New Zealand’s Simon Morton… here’s the results.
Three decades ago today, on 25 July 1978, Louise Brown, the world’s first ‘test-tube’ baby was born. We asked New Zealand reproductive health experts to reflect on how far the science has come, and what may lie ahead.
John Hutton, Reproductive Medicine Specialist, Fertility Associates Wellington and University of Otago Wellington School of Medicine and Health [...]
In a week where the only news dominating the headlines was to do with Winston Peters and his political donation woes, science managed to push its way onto the front page of the New Zealand Herald.
Cancer breakthrough
News of promising early trials in the UK of a drug treating men with late-stage prostate cancer broke on [...]
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I was surprised and disheartened to read that local tech entrepreneur Rod Drury is chucking in his well-read and respected blog.
Rod has consistently churned out thought-provoking and insightful pieces for several years and gained a large following in the tech and business communities. The blog also served his company Xero well - it lent credibility [...]
I had a interview with Jeremy Rose on Radio New Zealand’s Mediawatch programme yesterday talking science coverage in the New Zealand media and where the Science Media Centre will play a role in helping, as RNZ put it, “hacks handle science”. You can listen to the piece here (you’ll have to skip past the piece [...]
The Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, through which Government issues funding to CRIs, universities and private companies, released details of its latest funding round today. Scientists depend on this funding to keep their projects alive and get new ones of the ground, so there will be some celebrating going on today and a fair [...]
As numerous people have pointed out, none as grumpily as the chief Geek himself, last week’s iPhone launch by Vodafone was a major disappointment. The phone itself is fantastic (though I’m still in love with the old version’s brushed metal case).
All the ihype wasn’t able to disguise the fact that the iPhone plans are horrendously [...]