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May 22, 2012
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Kiwi biotech company Photonz has reached a new
milestone on the path to commercially manufacturing eicosapentaenoic
acid (EPA) from marine microalgae. Founded in New Zealand in 2002, the firm has developed a unique
process for producing the omega-3 fatty acid, a key ingredient in novel
therapeutics for the
cardiovascular disease market, by means of fermentation.
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Oh, Qantas. Offering up free PJs and toothpaste in exchange for
glowing tweets may have seemed like a good idea at the time. But as the
airline quickly learned, hashtags can be hijacked in the blink of an
eye. And perhaps best of all, it’s given us fresh fodder for a new Hitler Downfall video.
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Humans can be individually brilliant
but collectively dumb, says Gareth Renowden. And what we are seeing in the politics of climate
policy, nationally and internationally, is the latter, writ large.
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Speaking of elections, Vincent Heeringa has voted National or Act all his life. But the search warrant saga
has him so disgusted he’s making a protest vote.
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Stephen Ford is into mushrooms. He’s growing tiny
fungal spores that kill off pests, boring through their skin and sucking
out their insides. It sounds like something out of a science fiction
film about to go horribly wrong, but for Ford, it’s oh-so-right.
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It’s obvious when you think about it for a nano-second: cleantech is the hottest sector on the planet. Between now and 2030 energy demands will increase by almost 30 percent, requiring US$26.3 trillion of investment in all manner of renewable sources. It’s easy to get excited about the size of the problem. So why is the cleantech sector so undervalued by investors?
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Brands have been swift to embrace Google+, but the fledgling social network has a long way to go to catch up to Facebook. Digital services provider BrightEdge has analysed the 100 brands
featured in the latest edition of media research agency’s Millward
Brown’s annual ranking of the most valuable intangible assets globally. Overall,
it reported 61 percent of this group were active on Google+ less
than a week after corporates got the go ahead to join the new platform.
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