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Shouting out about bad science in the media
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Mar 2013
Shouting at the TV – madness or necessity? Russ Swan loves a good shout whenever he spots a scienti…

The infiltration of rogue information
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2013
For me, the past month can be summed up in one word; infiltration. Horse meat has infiltrated our f…

Can you speak pharmacish?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 12 Feb 2013
Modern medicine – one of humanities greatest on-going endeavours and saviour of countless lives. Bu…

How experiments really happen
Evoluted New Media | Added: 10 Feb 2013
Scientists take to Twitter to reveal the hilarious truth behind their not so scientific methods...!…

Is space trade the first step to colonisation?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2013
The era of humanity’s presence in space is entering a new dawn. Until now we have looked to the hea…

A scientific New Year's resolution
Evoluted New Media | Added: 17 Jan 2013
The modern paradigm of ‘Big Data’ is all well and good – but does harvesting it leave room for insp…

Contemplating the benefits of a year in Space
Evoluted New Media | Added: 14 Jan 2013
Was the year gone by everything you hoped it would be, or would you rather have spent the entirety …

A new energy production paradigm
Evoluted New Media | Added: 2 Jan 2013
The gulf between science and policy has never seemed greater than at the recent UN climate summit.!…

Human enhancement: will the benefits outweigh the costs?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 13 Dec 2012
Colossal advances in human enhancement technologies could allow us to overcome the current limits o…

A little Application…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2012
Never has the term ‘generation gap’ been quite so relevant to me as when my 3-year-old recently tri…

On a mission statement mission
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Dec 2012
Marketing strategy seems increasingly important, yet Russ Swan finds himself frustrated with contri…

Science Lite: Jurassic fantasies will never be a reality
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2012
Fans of this page may remember that two issues ago, the ScienceLite desk got into trouble for feign…

Jurassic fantasies will never be a reality
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Nov 2012
Fans of this page may remember that two issues ago, the ScienceLite desk got into trouble for feign…

Where are the women?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2012
You don’t need me to tell you that science deals in the currency of evidence. This evidence builds …

The opposite of precision
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Nov 2012
Russ Swan explores the much-hyped concept of personalised medicine but realises it is a long way fr…

Laughing as we learn
Evoluted New Media | Added: 25 Oct 2012
The internet. Internal combustion. Crisps. Just three things that we on the Science Lite desk are…

Science in the dock
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Oct 2012
Should you serve a prison sentence for being wrong about something? Monday 22 October marked a worr…

Is that a laboratory in your pocket…?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Oct 2012
Tweeting pictures of your lunch? Is that the best you can do with your smartphone? Russ Swan argues…

The hubris of humanity
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Oct 2012
The hubris of humanity is something that, in our current role as apex predators, can almost be forg…

A seed is sown, a lesson is learnt
Evoluted New Media | Added: 28 Sep 2012
Life is all about learning lessons. And here on the Science Lite desk we have just learnt a very va…