Articles tagged with "cost"

Imagine coming home from a long day at work and you forgot the groceries and haven't got anything to cook. Just as you're about to panic-order some Uber Eats you remember you can just boot up your 3D printer, whack in some basic ingredients, and a little while later out pops a perfect burger! I know this sounds like something from Star Trek, where Captain Picard could dial up anything from lobster ravioli right through to a “tea, Earl Grey, hot”. But thanks to advances in food engineering, we might be closer than you think. 3D food printing is a rapidly developing technology that has attracted interest from engineers, chefs, health professionals and the occasional sci-fi nerd.

If you're a member of NZ Skeptics you should receive a reminder to renew your subs soon. If you're not currently a member, you can join us for a very reasonable cost.

If you're a regular reader of our weekly newsletter you'll know by now that we're running a conference in conjunction with the Australian Skeptics. Because of COVID-19 restrictions we made the decision to run it entirely online.

As we talked about at the end of last year, there's been a real push to sell Kangen Water devices in NZ recently. An article in the Herald recently has detailed Ainsley Brunton's efforts to sell the water in Whanganui to unsuspecting customers. Her water devices are selling for $4,000, with promises that the water can help with cancer, diabetes and other serious diseases. Enagic in Australia is selling the machines to New Zealanders who are passing them on, and Enagic's prices for a machine that does nothing useful to water vary between $2,300 and $6,500.

Georgian College in Toronto has cancelled a course in homeopathy, due to negative feedback.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/81470129/Christchurch-City-Council-to-reduce-use-of-potentially-dangerous-weedkiller