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Byte-size: Birds, pigs get theme park

By Lindsay Harvey
Hamilton News·
4 Jan, 2012 04:00 PM3 mins to read

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If you haven't spent enough time in the imaginary world of slingshotting birds at pigs, you could soon take your fix into a very real and very fun world.

The popular smartphone game Angry Birds is getting its own theme parks.

The two Angry Birds theme parks will be built in Helsinki, where the game was created, and are expected to open by April.

But just like the game, the theme parks are set to go worldwide with plans to also set them up in America, Asia and other parts of Europe.

No details are yet available about how the theme parks will use the idea behind Angry Birds - where birds are catapulted at fortresses built by thieving pigs.

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Angry Birds is the most popular paid app on iPhones, with about half a billion downloads so far.

Top science minds share rich reward

A passion for science has paid off for some of our best and brightest.

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The Prime Minister's Science Prizes, which provide both recognition and an impressive prize pool of $1 million, were presented in Auckland recently. Top honour, and an impressive $500,000, went to scientists from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research and Otago University.

Their research on the ocean's influence on climate change will help answer questions on how to best utilise the sea to combat global warming.

They plan to put $400,000 of the money into helping establish a state-of-the-art culture centre in Otago to study Southern Ocean phytoplankton.

Other winners were Victoria University of Wellington scientist Dr Rob McKay, a glacial sedimentologist whose research is helping unravel the connection between past environmental change in the Antarctic and the present phase of global warning, saw him win the MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize.

The Science Teacher Prize was picked up by Dr Angela Sharples, who has cooked up the magic formula to get Rotorua Boys' High School students involved and improving in the subject of biology at a fantastic rate.

Nuan-Ting (Nina) Huang, a Year 13 student at Auckland Diocesan School for Girls, whose project - called Eye Think - investigated the effects of high-level concentration on pupil size and whether different activities could result in the early development of shortsightedness.

Her work won her the Future Scientist Prize, a $50,000 scholarship to help pay for her tertiary studies.

Talking the scientific talk saw Dr Mark Quigley, a senior lecturer at the University of Canterbury, land the Science Media Communication Prize. He has been at forefront in discussing the causes and effects of the Canterbury earthquakes.



To find out more about the Prime Minister's Science Prizes or any of these top minds check out pmscienceprizes.org.nz

Got any news, gadgets or queries? Contact lindsay.harvey@apn.co.nz

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