by Captain Skellett | Jan 15, 2013 | Recent Research
Tuberculosis is a major health issue, with around a third of the world’s population infected with the bacteria mycobacterium tuberculosis. Not all these people actually have signs of illness, only 10% will go on to have any symptoms during their life. For the...
by Captain Skellett | Feb 3, 2012 | Science at Home, Science Communication
True blue replica of Captain Cook’s tall ship HMB Endeavour is circumnavigating Australia and dropping into me home town Adelaide for a spell. Australians can sail the tall ship replica Endeavour in June 2012 to watch the rare transit of Venus from Lord Howe...
by Captain Skellett | Dec 9, 2011 | Science Communication
We reached a big milestone last month as the world’s population exceeded seven billion people for the first time. Looking behind the headlines was Paul Willis at the RiAus and a panellist of scientists and journalists on Tuesday (event details here.) In the 20th...
by Captain Skellett | Dec 2, 2011 | Science Communication
Yesterday afternoon I went to a prospectus to the HMS Beagle Project while founder David Lort Phillips is in Adelaide. It’s a CRAZY exciting project which plans to build a modern version of Darwin and FitzRoy’s tall ship the HMS Beagle, kitted out as a floating...
by Captain Skellett | Aug 3, 2011 | The Realm of Bizzare
I found this great post on the Portuguese man-o-war, known as the bluebottle in Australia, over at Deep Sea News the other day. It’s eating a fish! The post also said: Remember this species is colonial and made of four different polyps or zooids, working in...
