Category: Science in Context

November 21, 2017

The Saturday Evening Post, March 4, 1944, featured on its cover the iconic Norman Rockwell

November 18, 2017

A “Nitrate timebomb”. Last week’s media metaphor (Nov 10, 2017), was no doubt intended to

November 5, 2017

Christmas morning in New Zealand is synonymous with mid-summer barbecues at the beach, deservedly lazy

October 30, 2017

Saturday August 8, 1829, Felix Mendelssohn and his traveling companion Karl Klingemann, took a boat

October 25, 2017

The media loves hyperbole. In some ways they remind me of ‘The end is nigh’

October 18, 2017

The media love natural disasters, even those that don’t exist. Last week (early October, 2017),

October 4, 2017

Toba Lake, in northern Sumatra, occupies the ancient Toba caldera. One of its outlets, the

September 20, 2017

Photosynthesis, a process that had its beginnings about 2.5 billion years ago, has an awesome

September 17, 2017

Several years ago I read Jerry P. King’s The Art of Mathematics (1992). Chapter 3

September 14, 2017

It rains quite a bit on Mamaku Plateau, the tableland underlain by volcanic debris that