The ability to grow sausage meat in the lab could be a close as six months away, according to the New Scientist. Although actually bringing a product to consumers is still a way off, now is the time to start considering public acceptance. I think in vitro meat is a fantastic idea, but apparently it’s… [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…]
June 5, 2011
So this is what the ‘debate’ has degenerated to – even here in Australia climate scientists are receiving death threats. Death threat campaigns against scientists are something I naively tend to associate with other countries, such as the letter bombs sent by animal rights extremists in the UK. More than 30 Australian researchers have reported… [Read more…]
April 15, 2011
The Discoveries Needs Dollars campaign for medical research funding has been doing a fantastic job. Who’s running it? It’s ‘initiated’ by WEHI, but I don’t know if they’re doing it themselves or if they’ve contracted in outside help. They’ve put up a great looking website. That might sound frivolous, but I think it’s a really important starting point. It’s… [Read more…]
November 4, 2011
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