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Apollo 11 landing, 45 years ago today
Click here for a roundup of reminiscences and check out space.com for more complete coverage.
AbbVie will buy Shire in another Pharma tax inversion strategy
Following on the heels of Mylan, AbbVie will buy Shire in a move that, among other things, will result in a significantly lower tax rate when the redomiciled company is fully headquartered in Ireland. More information can be found here (WSJ) and here … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Pharmaceutical Industry
Tagged AbbVie, corporate tax rates, M&A, Shire, tax inversion
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Dale Chihuly – Red Reeds and The White Tower
To counteract all that gloom from yesterday’s post on Vantablack, here’s something with a little more cheerful color, courtesy of Dale Chihuly: Chihuly and his studio are renowned for overcoming incredible technical challenges inherent in working with large scale blown glass while producing … Continue reading
The blackest black ever achieved – using carbon nanotubes
A British company, Surrey NanoSystems, has produced “Vantablack”, a “strange, alien” material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record, according to the UK Independent: To stare at the “super black” … Continue reading
Dale Chihuly — Neodymium Reeds
At the Denver Botanic Gardens.
Generic drug maker Mylan pulls a mini-Pfizer tax inversion
Taking a page from Pfizer’s playbook, Mylan is buying Abbott Laboratories’ branded specialty and generics businesses in developed markets outside the U.S.. The $5B deal is structured to result in a tax inversion, with the newly formed merged company to be headquartered in the Netherlands. “We see … Continue reading
Posted in Pharmaceutical Industry
Tagged Abbott Laboratories, Mylan, Pfizer, tax inversion
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The view from INSIDE a fireworks show
Awesome video from a small drone that was apparently unharmed by the experience.
LA Schools Realize Giving Every Kid an iPad Was a Costly Disaster, Will Give Every Kid a Laptop Instead
Last year the Los Angeles unified school district decided to give every high school student an iPad. The preliminary roll out among 47 schools was a mess. The curriculum was incomplete, the iPads were barely used to their potential and, of … Continue reading
Posted in Information Technology
Tagged iPad, Los Angeles Unified School District, students
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Engineers use LEGOs for cheaper, flexible plant research
As reported by Mike Krapfl-Iowa State at Futurity.org, scientists have been constructing high-tech apparatus for conducting plant research using LEGO bricks: Ludovico Cademartiri, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Iowa State University, was looking for something modular, scalable, and structurally precise. … Continue reading
Posted in Fun Science, Innovation, Uncategorized
Tagged innovation, LEGO, plant research
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Securitization of Biomedical Research
MIT’s Andy Lo has published another article about the securitization of biomedical research, this time proposing a private-public partnership specifically to create therapies for Alzheimer’s disease. Pharmalot interviewed Andy and Derek Lowe has some comments. I heard Andy talk about his proposal at … Continue reading
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