NZ blogs sitemeter ranking – November ‘09
So far I have found 126 NZ blogs with publicly accessible sitemeter stats. This is about 20% of the total on my database. The blogs are listed in the table below, together with daily visits and page view numbers averaged over the previous 7 days. The data was that given by by the NZ blog ranking tool on November 19th. This can be seen at NZ blogs average daily visits Have a look at that tool. Its a way of com

Galileo and Hollywood
I have always enjoyed Carolyn Porco’s talks. She is the director of CICLOPS, the Cassini Imaging Science Team. Cassini is currently in orbit around Saturn. In this talk given at the AAI 2009 Convention she covers some interesting topics (see video below). These include the question of science and atheism, can science determine if a god exists and the contribution of Galileo to the scientific

Distorting Darwin
Poor old Charles Darwin. In this year of celebration, when me mark the 200th year since his birth and the 150th year since the publication of his great work

The rules of science
PZ Myers has a great post Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher About Int

Twittering in space
All going well the STS-129 Shuttle launch will occur on Monday 2.28 pm EST, USA (8.28 am Tuesday, NZ time). Here’s a photograph of the crew for this mission. What interests me, though, is that the number of astronauts using social media like