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The power of convention
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 May 2012
I’m going to start this issue with a question. What would you say is the cost of presenting results…
Will colouring fear cross the Atlantic?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 23 Apr 2012
Coca-Cola and Pepsi have altered the way the caramel colour so distinctive of their drinks is produ…
To boldly dine where no one has dined before…
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Apr 2012
It’s not often that the Science Lite desk is allowed beyond the confines of the office. And for goo…
Is the best science coverage in the tabloids?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Apr 2012
Science and the popular press have never been the best of friends – yet babbler-extraordinaire Russ…
Science and politics – a match made in heaven?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 3 Apr 2012
A ship with giant towers pumping out white clouds to reflect the suns energy and hence act to allev…
Screening for CF
Evoluted New Media | Added: 26 Mar 2012
Eureka moments are scarce in the business of combating disease. Finding a ‘cure’ is all too rare an…
Celebrities versus science
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Mar 2012
Celebrity endorsement is worth big bucks – it’s hard to watch TV without seeing a celebrity adverti…
Rules for TV scientists
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Mar 2012
Glamorous, sexy and brilliant – the TV scientist of today is an all-round hero, but as our babbler-…
A very strange tail indeed
Evoluted New Media | Added: 9 Mar 2012
Fermat’s last theorem and the Poincaré conjecture – just two of the great mathematical problems tha…
All change
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Mar 2012
If there is one thing that is consistent in this world, it is change. We may be fooled into a sense…
Silicone scam
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Feb 2012
Industrial-grade silicon caused a global public-health scare – whose fault is it?!--more--
The recen…
How many Fry are you?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Feb 2012
Ever wondered how many Fry’s you are? Or how big your house is in RAHs? Perhaps you think your appe…
The colour of our galaxy
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2012
We know a lot about our celestial neighbourhood. The galaxy in which our solar system resides has b…
Let’s go LEGO!
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Feb 2012
From the earliest recoded traces of human culture, to copy something was considered the highest for…
Business or conservation?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 20 Jan 2012
Welcome one and all to this, your very own 2012! If we seem a little perky for what would ordinaril…
CFC replacements are greenhouse gases
Evoluted New Media | Added: 16 Jan 2012
The Montreal Protocol – which came into force in 1989 – banned or phased out CFCs and HCFCs because…
These meme streets
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Jan 2012
In this month's column, Russ Swan takes on the dubious world of pseudo-scientific advertising and i…
Biobank excitement
Evoluted New Media | Added: 1 Jan 2012
At the tail end of last year – a time that tends to be fairly quiet in terms of news worthy events …
Is there any point in IQ tests?
Evoluted New Media | Added: 19 Dec 2011
Just what is the point of an IQ test – should we bother with them and are they accurate? !--more--…
A wrong turn in Vienna
Evoluted New Media | Added: 15 Dec 2011
In his new column, Russ Swan cuts a swathe through pomp to find out what's what in science and R&D.…
