by Richard Easther | Apr 7, 2014 | Bad Science
A side-effect of working on the Big Bang is that I get a fair bit of crank mail (to use the technical term), a few crank phone calls, and even the occasional crank visit. These cranks – or “independent investigators” – usually believe they have solved abiding...
by Richard Easther | Apr 2, 2014 | New Zealand
Aucklanders, and those in Auckland this Sunday: MoTAT is holding its inaugural Science Street Fair. This will be a fun, informal event with all sorts of science (and scientists) on display. Not to mention a hovercraft, 3D printing and the “Ask a...
by Richard Easther | Mar 31, 2014 | Bad Science
Last weekend, New Zealand’s Dominion Post ran a scare-story, Waves of Uncertainty Over Wi-fi. Couched in the “on the one hand, but on the other hand” style of newspaper reporting, it plays off officialdom, a concerned parent and a scientist willing to go on...
by Richard Easther | Mar 27, 2014 | Academia
Whenever you throw a party, there is always someone who double-dips the guacamole. In this case the jerk was Ephraim Hardcastle, a pseudonymous correspondent in the Daily Mail. This nimrod thought the most important thing to say about one of the biggest...
by Richard Easther | Mar 17, 2014 | Cosmology
magine you set off a Big Bang. Imagine you set off many Big Bangs. Newborn universes are all small, grubby and just a little disorganised. But you love them, and want each of them to mature into a well-balanced cosmos with an evenly distributed...
