It seems that barely a month goes by without there being a news article concerning human ancestry. In the eight years since I wrote a post o...

As Christmas approaches and we get over-saturated in seasonal pop songs and the occasional carol, I thought it would be appropriate to look ...

In the restored Edwardian school classroom at Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT) there is a notice on the wall statin...

I was recently weeding a vegetable bed in the garden when out of the corner of my eye I noticed a centipede frantically heading for cover af...

As Carl Sagan once you said: "if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." A few nights...

One of my earliest blog posts  concerned the media circus surrounding two of the most famous scientists alive today: British physicist Steph...

I recently attended an interesting event at an Auckland venue usually reserved for pop music concerts. An audience in the thousands came to...

If there's one thing that appears to unite New Zealanders with the British it is the love of discussing the weather. This year has been ...

As fans of Star Wars might be aware, George Lucas is nothing if not visually astute. His thumbnail sketches for the X-wing, TIE fighter and...

Although there have been science-promoting societies since the Renaissance, most of the dissemination of scientific ideas was played out at ...

A few months' ago I finally saw the film 'Gravity', courtesy of a friend with a home theatre system. Amongst the numerous techni...

According to that admittedly dubious font of broad knowledge Wikipedia, there are currently sixteen Creationist museums in the United States...