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New Online Elective available on next semester: STC3SIM

La News wrote 1 month ago: Delivering on La Trobe’s policy of offering all students flexible learning options,  STC3SIM is avai … more →

Tags: Bendigo campus, Albury-Wodonga campus, Mildura Campus, shepparton campus, sustainability, Melbourne campus, Important Information, Campus News and Events, teaching learning and research

Diversity, etc.

Corrinne wrote 1 month ago: Image: Flickr/jaydedman *knocks hesitantly on door* Ahem. I’m back. Well, I’ve been busy … more →

Tags: Science in Society, My Guardian Science Articles, Science Communication, guardian-science-

Ecobuild Day 2: Changing work habits and new materials2 comments

davergp wrote 3 months ago: Ecobuild 2013 is over and it was great, made a tonne of great contacts and possibly made a small rep … more →

Tags: biomimicry, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Building Design, technology, Information access, Excel London, London, chris wise, Expedition Engineering

Sex, lies and beef jerky

Dr. Meles wrote 3 months ago: “Everything is worth what people will pay for it” Publilius Syrus (Maxim 847) Recently Rand Paul had … more →

Tags: Science, Science Policy, Politics, Cockburn, palin, DoD, Sarah Palin, Tom Cockburn, iain couzin

Thank You from the Bottom of My (Scallop) 'Nads

strictlyfishwrap wrote 3 months ago: Author: Skylar Bayer As may of you know, I appeared in the The Colbert Report’s special, The E … more →

Tags: Data, De-stressing Monologues (Rants), field work, Fish and People, Humor, life journies, outreach, Andy Mays, Colbert Report

High Performance - Festival of engineering at the Science Museum

Corrinne wrote 3 months ago: So! Me and my colleague Ling Lee have put together this awesome festival celebrating all that is fas … more →

Tags: Science in Society, physics and engineering, particle accelerators, Chemistry, Careers in Science and Technology, Particle Physics, Engineering, Formula 1, motorsport

Book Review: The Britannica Guide to Climate Change

mgm75 wrote 4 months ago: Undeservedly, climate change is a political hot topic. Regular readers will know my views on this su … more →

Tags: Book Review, Science, climate change, Book, ipcc, Climate Denialism, Environmentalism, Climate Science, Green issues

What Biomimicry needs to learn from the internet and Aaron Swartz: 1 - Nerdcore Hiphop2 comments

davergp wrote 5 months ago: Biomimicry is like all science derivative. However, while the ‘classical sciences’ tend to follow a … more →

Tags: biomimicry, Sustainable Design, AskNature, MC Lars, Aaron Swartz, Nerdcore, hip-hop, academic journal, pay wall

Biomythology: Eastgate-gate 3 (or How the Eastgate Centre, Harare, is not like a termite mound)7 comments

davergp wrote 5 months ago: Termite mounds might offer so much more opportunity for biomimicrists than we currently realise. Pos … more →

Tags: biomimicry, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Building Design, Biomimetic Form, Environmental Politics, sustainable design, dissertation, negative pressure, Janine Benyus

Sci-comm for scientists: a field guide

Corrinne wrote 5 months ago: I very rarely advise people – mainly because the life experience I’ve accumulated to date cons … more →

Tags: Science in Society, My Guardian Science Articles, Laboratory life, Science in Popular Culture, Science Communication, guardian-science-

Biomythology: Eastgate-gate 2 (or How the Eastgate Centre, Harare, is not like a termite mound)13 comments

davergp wrote 6 months ago: As I began on Tuesday, the Eastgate Centre is good design. It is NOT good biomimicry. To be fair, th … more →

Tags: biomimicry, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Building Design, Biomimetic Form, Theory, sustainable design, termite, Ventilation, bad science

Biomythology: Eastgate-gate 1 (or How the Eastgate Centre, Harare, is not like a termite mound)9 comments

davergp wrote 6 months ago: The Eastgate Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe, is a very famous building to environmental construction. Desi … more →

Tags: AskNature, biomimicry, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Building Design, Biomimetic Form, Theory, sustainable design, Science journalism, termite

The Scientific Argument for Scientific Argument 2 -

davergp wrote 6 months ago: Further to Monday’s part 1… The Answers? 1 – “Seek and you shall receive” The prob … more →

Tags: Environmental Politics, technology, climate change, Richard Hammond, BBC, NASA, Science journalism, termite, miracles of nature

The Scientific Argument for Scientific Argument 1 - Angry at Auntie (i.e. The BBC)2 comments

davergp wrote 6 months ago: So, after the hard science of the grand inaugural Biomimiquiz to round off last month, here’s … more →

Tags: Environmental Politics, technology, climate change, BBC, Brian Cox, Climatic Research Unit email controversy, Science journalism, ClimateGate

Science and art: can one exist without the other?

Corrinne wrote 6 months ago: Arts or sciences? That’s a choice that many of our sixteen-year-old selves were faced with when we b … more →

Tags: Science in Society, Science Communication, Science museum, Art and Science

Of Accelerators and Arses3 comments

Corrinne wrote 7 months ago: Yeah, I’m not really keeping on top of this whole blog-updating lark largely, am I? Well, I … more →

Tags: particle accelerators, Science in Society, Higgs boson, LHC, Particle Physics, Science museum, Science Showoff

Richard Hammond’s Miracles of Nature3 comments

davergp wrote 7 months ago: Biomimicry is now main stream. Richard Hammond started his new science showcase series on Monday nig … more →

Tags: biomimicry, Richard Hammond, top gear, Reliant, Carl Sagan, Television, HAMMOND, Cosmos

Older fathers and new genetics

philipstrange wrote 8 months ago: [This piece appeared in the October edition of Marshwood Vale Magazine] Pablo Picasso and children, … more →

Tags: applications of science, science writing, human genome, mutations, paternal age, schizophrenia, Autism, Science, human genome sequence

Science on TV, technology on the gallery. What's it really for?

Corrinne wrote 8 months ago: How is science presented in the very different formats of television, museum gallery and print/web m … more →

Tags: Science in Society, space science, Science in Popular Culture


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