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Conker season coming up – Prepare your weapons

Falling off the drug patent cliff…and surviving.

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Over the last 5 years the pharmaceutical industry has been faced with a tsunami of blockbuster drug patent expirations. Without patent protection, originator drugs, and the companies that manufacture them, are exposed to market competition […]

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Hwaet!

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Storytelling has been with us for centuries – and we’re still doing it now – even in the pharmaceutical world. ‘Hwaet’ is the first written word in the English language. It starts the epic poem […]

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Water in space?

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Crazy Japanese artist Azuma Makoto has taken high art to new heights, (sorry), by launching flowers and Bonsai trees up into space purely for the sake of art and beauty. A fascinating and wonderful idea. […]

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Let’s skip lunch

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Introducing The Salvage Supper Club in New York where the diners do exactly what it says on the tin – they eat food that’s been salvaged from dumpsters and turned into ‘gourmet’ meals by top […]

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Think sad

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The most legendary of all VW ad writers has shuffled off this mortal coil, but the legend lives on. Well, it does in my garage… Julian Koenig, widely regarded as one of the 20th century’s […]

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Cube-ism

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Now then, back in my school days, I used to be able to complete the mind-twisting puzzle that is Mr Rubik’s Cube in about a minute. Sadly I’ve long since forgotten how to do the […]

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Wok it out

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This is wonderful stuff.  As well as receiving a host of accolades from across the design world, this Chinese character learning system has deservedly been shortlisted for the ‘Designs Of The Year 2014’ from no […]

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