New variants, Sam Bailey, FTL communication and more

As I write this there's news breaking about a new variant of concern of the COVID virus, now named as Omicron. The Greek Alphabet, by Ben Crowder The naming of variants of concern follows the Greek ... (351 words)

Dr Sam Bailey has been in the news this week, which involved in a court case petitioning the High Court to stop the New Zealand Medical Council from investigating her. Sam Bailey is a prominent ... (372 words)

Back on YouTube channels again - you may have heard of the YouTube channel Veritasium. This one is a generally good science channel which has nearly 11 million subscribers. This week I came across ... (332 words)

It's been revealed this week that you can wash disposable masks, and reuse them. The current advice from the Ministry of Health is that disposable masks should be used once then thrown away. A group ... (183 words)

For those readers who are members of NZ Skeptics (as off 1st April 2021 - that was our cut-off date), you will have, by now, (hopefully) received your Skeptic Card in the mail, along with a couple of ... (290 words)

If you've been reading the newsletter for any time you'll be aware of the joint conference we ran with the Australian Skeptics last weekend. I hope you had a chance to attend and to view the talks. ... (228 words)

NZ Skeptics has its Annual General Meeting on Sunday 12th December. We'll be holding this online, and we'd encourage any interested members to come along. We're looking for a new treasurer this year, ... (89 words)