I’ll be spending the next 31 days trying to raise money for my research using the crowd funding model on the RocketHub platform, where contributors exchange small donations (in the 10-100 dollar ballpark) in return for ‘rewards’. As a microbiologist who makes glow-in-the-dark bacteria for a living, my rewards are things like sending donors a picture of their name written in glowing bacteria or naming one of my bacteria after them.
The challenge came about partly as a result of the lack of funding for basic science (success rates stand at about 20% in the USA, while for New Zealand’s only …
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Round 2 of the SciFund Challenge is now live! May 01
Consumptionomics May 01
Business pages don’t often carry articles about the need to forsake the growth model. I was somewhat startled to come across one prominent in the NZ Herald business supplement …
A toolkit for organisations and social media May 01
…Well a little bit. Certainly this post is for those of you who know organisations which are looking at social media and considering whether to get involved or not. Now …
Herd thinking, meet herd immunity May 01
A fantastic cartoon courtesy of Scientific American and by Dwayne Godwin and Jorge Cham explains herd immunity (and highlights the problem with herd thinking). Cheers to Explore where I found …
April ’12 – NZ blogs sitemeter ranking May 01
I have included the reality check image because of a recent experience where I was accused of refusing to include a blog on this list because I disagreed with …
