Together with being considered as one of the most beautiful countries in the world, New Zealand is also special in being one of the youngest. It was discovered by Europeans ...
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A Smart Grid: The Intelligent Way to Supply Electricity
Although consumers and politicians often blame rising electricity prices on the up-front costs of researching and using more sustainable energy, a new article by Professor Ross Garnaut indicates this is ...
Supermicroscope used to pinpoint Immune System ‘On Switch’
Until recently, it was unknown within the scientific community whether or not there was a master “on/off switch” for the human immune system. Australian scientists, however, have been able to ...
Future of education
Article inspired by Education in digital age by Dejan Petrovic and First Annual Friends of the Library Public Lecture
Read any science-fiction book from decades ago and you ...
Read any science-fiction book from decades ago and you ...
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Google Science Fair 2012: Everyone has a question. What’s yours?
On January 11th 2012, Google has launched the second annual international online Science Fair, a a unique opportunity for young people to engage with the scientific community at large. This competition encourages students to be curious, ask questions, get engaged with their peers, and perform science experiments to answer those questions. The organisers believe that [...]
Science Online 2012 – wrapping up the unconference
The Science Online 2012 (un)conference on science and the Web is over. It gathered many bloggers, scientists, scholars, journalists world wide, actively engaging, interacting, writing, and communicating on science, social media, technology, art. The conference offered numerous sessions throughout three days (January 19-21, 2012) on different topics ranging from Cybersecurity and Digital rights, Dealing with [...]
Business research methods
Business has developed almost into a science since it brings huge profits and therefore doing some detailed research into it was something to be expected. Basics: A case study is an intensive analysis of an individual unit (e.g., a person, group, or event) stressing developmental factors in relation to context. The case study is common [...]
Sun protective clothing
Clothing is the most important and efective form of sun protection. This is is our first line of defense against the sun’s ultraviolet rays which are harmful. Millions skin cancers are diagnosed and huge majority of them is caused by solar UV radiation. Besides skin cancer Sun causes brown spots, wrinkles and sagging skin. Luckily [...]
Open access: Opening the Science
Open access databases, archives, repositories are hopefully present, for almost a decade, in technology, education, science, and the iron gates systems are slowly behind us; we can say that the technology, science, and academia are striving to be more and more open. There is an international movement that uses the Internet to throw open the [...]
Sugar substitutes
Sugar is one of the most used spices in every day eating. Not only that it is used for making sweets and cakes and cookies but is often added to salty food to enhance its flavour. Because of its caloric value and bad influence on the health of people with diabetes many sugar substitutes have [...]
The effect of controlled cleansing of the teeth on periodontal health
Teeth health is of great importance as teeth are connected to our whole body and their state can effect overall wellbeing. However, teeth health is not the only people’s concern. Their appearence is as well (see http://www.whitersmile.com.au/ for more info). Basics: Teeth cleaning is part of oral hygiene and involves the removal of dental plaque from [...]
Environmental correlates of happiness
Happiness is the feeling everybody searches for the most. It sometimes seems unattainable and ureachable but people never stop fighting for it. Many things can influence a person’s happiness to a smaller or a greater extent. Basics: Happiness is a mental state of well-being characterized by positive emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. A variety [...]
ScienceOnline2012 – The power of the Scientific Community
I want to share some of my personal experiences from the past meetings of the Science online unconference as someone who have participated and attended the conference. I have attended Science Online twice: I have held a session on Open access e-resources in the networked world (2009) and held a workshop – Social Media for [...]
Income and happiness
”Money doesn’t bring happiness” says an old saying but we all sometimes doubt it. It is very easy to believe that all problems would be solved if we had more money but it is also easy to forget that the best and the most important things in,life cannot be bought with money. Many researches were [...]
WWW12 Conference: Transformation of the Social Web
This year the World Wide Web conference (or WWW12) is taking place in Europe (Lyon, France) . It was first conceived as an idea in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva while the first conference of the series was held in 1994. Ever since then World Wide Webn has became an annual event changing location between North America, [...]
Human hair growth in vitro
Hair has always had a special meaning for human race if we put aside its biological purpose of protecting the body and helping keep the temperature it importance lies in it decorative purpose. Hair can tell stories of people’s positions in society, their title and nowadays their opinions and attitudes. That is why the growth [...]
The importance of recreation
“All work and no play makes you a dull boy/girl.” This saying has lasted in time for quite long and for good reasons. If you work all the time, and don’t have time for some occasional recreation, you will simply tire yourself . Recreation is beneficial for both physical and psychological wellbeing. Basics: Recreation is [...]
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Google Science Fair 2012: Everyone has a question. What’s yours?
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Science Online 2012 – wrapping up the unconference
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Business research methods
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Sun protective clothing
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Open access: Opening the Science
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Sugar substitutes
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The effect of controlled cleansing of the teeth on periodontal health
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Environmental correlates of happiness
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ScienceOnline2012 – The power of the Scientific Community
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