by Richard Easther | Oct 14, 2017 | Academia, Bad Science
Fabrication and plagiarism are the unforgivable curses of science – crimes of no return. If you are caught committing them you will not wind up in an academic Azkaban but you would be hard put to find another job in a university as a parking...
by Richard Easther | Oct 8, 2017 | New Zealand, Personal, Science in Our Lives
A city can simply happen, its location and form shaped by millions of people choosing where to live and what to build. This is a classic example of emergence or complex phenomena arising from simple ingredients, one of the key ideas science uses to...
by Richard Easther | Oct 2, 2017 | Astronomy, New Zealand, Physics
This is the week the Nobel Prizes are announced, and today is the day (at least in New Zealand; first place in the world to see the light, as the tourist people say) the Physics prize is announced. And this year the odds-on favourite will be LIGO and the discovery of...
