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The secret to eternal youth? - 24 Nov 2007
2007-11-26 00:00:00 Shall I ask Father Christmas for anti-wrinkle cream this year? Unconvinced by the faux science in the TV adverts for anti-wrinkle cream I turned to google in my hour of need. I was quickly... More About: Youth , The Secret , Secret , Eternal
Misconceptions in Science Education - 18 Nov 2007
2007-11-19 00:00:00 The 1st of August marked the start of the Professional Association of Teachers conference. Now for a let us forget the motion passed on closing down You Tube; which according to the PAT... More About: Science , Education , Misconceptions
The science of lap dancing - 7 Nov 2007
2007-11-12 00:00:00 Scientists at the University of new Mexico have found that lap dancers earn more during estrous - the time when female mammals are at their most fertile. Researchers often claim... More About: Science , Dancing
Smoke Signals from the Past - 2 Nov 2007
2007-11-07 00:00:00 Imagine a world of wildly escalating temperatures, apocalyptic flooding, devastating storms and catastrophic sea level rise. This might sound like a prediction for the future or the storyline... More About: Smoke , Past
Does dark matter exist? - 22 Oct 2007
2007-10-23 00:00:00 Does dark matter exist? Well yes, but MOND is a humdinger of an alternative theory. I?m not going to mislead you ? many scientists wouldn?t give it the time of day, but it certainly is not... More About: Dark , Matter , Exist
The York Science Festival and Biometrics - 2 Oct 2007
2007-10-14 00:00:00 Sorry all for being a bit quiet on the blog recently. Moving to the UK, finding houses, work, working too hard - these things slow you down! I have recently become an editor of Plus Magazine... More About: Science , York , Festival , Biometrics
Sex before Sport? - 23 Aug 2007
2007-08-30 00:00:00 The All Blacks get cranky when there is no sex It is the virile sports-person's eternal question - should one abstain from a little bit of nookie before a big sporting event? The question... More About: Sport , Fore
A Terrible Tragedy - 13 Aug 2007
2007-08-16 00:00:00 One of the great tragedies in modern memory is the extinction of the Yangtze Dolphin. Indeed, it is something about which mankind should be ashamed. The Yangtze Dolphin is the first large... More About: Tragedy , Terri
The Great Global Warming Swindle - 20 Jul 2007
2007-08-12 00:00:00 Last night I attended the Australian screening of a rather strange ?documentary? called The Great Global Warming Swindle . This film contains a bizarre mixture of half-truths, misinformation... More About: Ming
A very cold war - 7 Aug 2007
2007-08-10 00:00:00 Russia has claimed one of the most inaccessible areas on Earth with a feat of magnificent science and engineering that tests international law, explores hitherto unexplored geography and... More About: Cold War , Cold
Book Review - The God Delusion - 24 Jul 2007
2007-07-28 00:00:00 Having time on my hands has given me the opportunity to do something that in the past I have had little time to do, and that's read. The most recent book that I have finished is the much... More About: Book Review , Review , Book , The Go , The G
Ancient forests - 11 Jul 2007
2007-07-14 00:00:00 Seeing a New Zealand kauri sitting implacably in dense forest is an awe-inspiring sight. A Gondwanaland relic, these conifers are massive in scale and age: individuals can be several metres... More About: Ancient , Fore , Forests
UK Wi-Fi Scandal - 8 Jul 2007
2007-07-10 00:00:00 Wi-Fi in the UK is prominent, offered by cafes, bars, book stores and very often found in schools. Commonly used to wirelessly connect to the Internet, Wi-Fi hit the headlines when the BBC... More About: Scandal , Canda
A fowl surprise - 27 Jun 2007
2007-06-29 00:00:00 Why did the chicken cross the ocean? It sounds like a bad joke but some Chilean chicken remains are causing a rethink of Pacific exploration. The Polynesian people of the Pacific were... More About: Rise
A Hearty Glass (or two?) - 29 Jun 2007
2007-06-29 00:00:00 I have what is politely described as a portfolio job, or to be more honest a diverse set of jobs based loosely around the theme of talking about science. Its never boring and... More About: Glass
Siding with the Amphibian - 19 Jun 2007
2007-06-21 00:00:00 As a boy at summer camp in southern Ontario I used to frequent the railroad tracks, one side of which had a water-filled ditch where frogs, toads, dragonflies and an occasional snake lurked. I... More About: The A
Siding with the Amphibian - 19 Jun 2007
2007-06-21 00:00:00 As a boy at summer camp in southern Ontario I used to frequent the railroad tracks, one side of which had a water-filled ditch where frogs, toads, dragonflies and an occasional snake lurked. I... More About: The A
Iceland is the Coolest place on Earth - 19 Jun 2007
2007-06-21 00:00:00 There is a sure fire-way to cure yourself of boredom; joblessness and that nagging feeling that you should possibly be doing more with yourself and engaging with reality, and that's by doing the... More About: Earth , Iceland , Place , Lace , Elan
Time for a Bath - 7 Jun 2007
2007-06-15 00:00:00 One of the next stops along the way was the ancient and beautiful Roman town of Bath , in the south-west of England. It is famous for its geothermally heated hot-springs - the only naturally... More About: Time
Man Bites Shark, Apes Publish Paper - 5 Jun 2007
2007-06-07 00:00:00 I recently reviewed a book (Anthrozoos, Vol. 20(1)) with the charmingly buoyant title of "Killing Animals." The book?s introduction includes the sobering news that we humans kill more... More About: Apes , Shark , Publish , Paper , Bite
Greenwich - Home of Longitude - 28 May 2007
2007-05-30 00:00:00 We have finally made it to the UK, and although jobless and homeless, have managed to have a great time so far, although today's wet and freezing London weather is testing our patience. The UK... More About: Home , May 2007 , Greenwich , Longitude
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for apes? - 23 May 2007
2007-05-26 00:00:00 It's a civil rights case with a twist. In late April, an Austrian judge denied personhood status and legal guardianship for 26-year-old Matthias Pan, who was kidnapped as an infant in Sierra Leone... More About: Life , Liberty , Apes , Happiness , Ness
Science Book prize - 8 May 2007
2007-05-17 00:00:00 My biography ? Lonesome George: The Life and Loves of the World?s Most Famous Tortoise ? is now out in paperback, published by Pan. It?s also been shortlisted for this year?s Royal Society General... More About: Science , Book , May 2007 , E Book
New hope for Lonesome George - 7 May 2007
2007-05-17 00:00:00 Exciting news folks. A bunch of geneticists, mainly at Yale University in Connecticut, may be close to finding me a mate. They?ve just brought out a paper in Current Biology provocatively entitled... More About: Hope , George , May 2007 , Lone , Some
A Dog Named Chester - 4 May 2007
2007-05-17 00:00:00 The other day I met Chester , one of the cutest, most enchanting dogs I?ve ever encountered. He was small, slightly pudgy, and devoted to his master, whom he greeted with a brand of flattering... More About: May 2007 , Este
Myth or Malthusian Catastrophe We Still Have to Act - 1 May 2007
2007-05-17 00:00:00 It was only a matter of time before the inevitable happened and I wrote something about climate change, so here it is. I've been having an interesting email chat with Professor Philip Stott,... More About: Have , Still , Catastro , May 2007 , Thus
The Science of Cricket - 29 Apr 2007
2007-05-17 00:00:00 With the Cricket World Cup coming to its conclusion, I thought it was time to do a story on some interesting scientific aspects of cricket that have arisen recently. Are cricketers... More About: Science
Mad April - 29 Apr 2007
2007-05-17 00:00:00 In this warmest April ever recorded in the UK, it is a joy to be out and about. The hedgerows are heavy with blossom, the crops in the fields are already chest-high, and all around there is...
Travelling through the smog.... - 9 May 2007
2007-05-17 00:00:00 I've just done the very Australian thing of relocating to London for 9 months, so as I sit here in a pub that's over 200 years old, yet which has a wireless hotspot, and as I try not to convert... More About: Travelling , Through , May 2007 , Smog
A Chimp Haven - 23 Apr 2007
More articles from this author:2007-05-17 00:00:00 Earlier this week I visited a facility for chimpanzees given over to retirement by research laboratories that no longer want them. Chimp Have n lies on 200 rural acres near Shreveport, Louisiana.1... More About: Haven 1, 2, 3 |
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