The Advertiser front page today: Retrovirus threatens Kangaroo Island koalas The survival of Kangaroo Island’s koalas in is grave danger because of an AIDS-like virus affecting 40% of the population. Experts say the disease has the potential to impact koalas in a similar way to how mouth cancer is wiping out Tasmanian devils. The Environment… [Read more…]
August 16, 2011
I was going to write a quick straightforward post on this ABC news report quoting a survey commissioned by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), taking advantage of the general superiority we all like to feel when we read that people believe that light sabres are real, dinosaurs and humans co-existed, and the… [Read more…]
August 10, 2011
In an article in the latest New Scientist Baroness Susan Greenfield (she’s a prominent English neuroscientist at Oxford University and former director of the UK Royal Institution) was answering a question on: What evidence is there that digital technology is having an impact on our brains? There is lots of evidence, for example, the recent paper “Microstructure… [Read more…]
September 29, 2011
2