Demands are being made to rush in soft-touch regulation to allow e-cigarettes to be manufactured, flavoured, promoted and used virtually without restriction.NeydtStock/ShutterstockThis is the full text of a paper I presented to the Oceania Tobacco Control Conference, Perth on October 21, 2015.
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Photosynthesis is crucial to the ability of plants to convert sunlight into energy.N i c o l a/Flickr, CC BYHumans have only just begun dabbling with solar power, but other organisms have been converting sunlight into energy for more than three billion years. In fact, we’re only just beginning to understand how they do it.
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Bubbles can be worth a lot of money.Ilena Gecan/Flickr, CC BY-SAThere aren’t many scientific discoveries that have boosted our economy by A$36 billion. Yet that’s what Graeme Jameson’s invention has yielded for Australia, along with him receiving this year’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation.
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The film sets up a paternalistic dynamic that overrides everything else.
AAP Image/NEWZULU/Richard GoldschmidtSo what’s the take-home message from Nancy Meyers' new A-list comedy The Intern? Every young female entrepreneur needs an old man to tell her how to do business and run her life.
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