Gamma series

Gammas are“discussion papers” based on current issues that emerge in the media and become part of public debate.

The production of Gammas ceased in 2008. However, the topics do remain current as most issues reappear with regularity. Gamma can be freely downloaded for educational purposes. 

• New Zealand’s role in the International Space Programme
• For whom the bell tolls (and doesn't stop) - Tinnitus
• Adversity’s Sweet Milk – A1/A2 Milk debate
• Response to a marine incursion of Styela clava
• Harnessing the Oceans – Is it viable to utilise New Zealand’s ocean as an energy source?
• “Yucky dirty hands” – Are New Zealanders washing their hands?
• Battery electric vehicles – Alternative transport methods
• Energy
• Shaking hands and Kissing babies – Politicians psychological techniques
• In the Blood: New Born Screening
• Coal – New Zealand’s Black Gold
• The Scientific War on Terror – Response to new threats
• Climate Change
• Xenotransplantation
• Tsunamis
• Osteoporosis
• Lead and you
• Birdflu - The (Asian) bird flu pandemic
• Malaria
• Drinking Water
• SARS
• Bioweapons
• Life after Dolly - Cloning
• Meningitis
• 1080 Who is taking the bait
• Anthrax
• Madcow - Bovinespongiformencephalopathy (BSE)
• Drugs in sport
• Geneticengineering in the field - Genetechnology research
• Geneticengineering and ethics
• Foot and Mouth disease
• The promise of stem cell research
• Food labeling - what are we eating?
  
• Organic Food
• Eating disorders
• Weight of the world, obesity declared a global obsession