Ones that got away - July 22, 2009
“I thought, being Americans, they might say: ‘Holy chicken s**t look at all that f***ing dust’. I felt that would not be a suitable thing to be quoted in history books until eternity.”
Gary Peach, former employee at Australia’s Tidbinbilla satellite tracking facility, explains what he thought might happen when America landed on the Moon. Peach claims he came up with Armstrong’s “One small step…” lines and passed them on instead (The Age).
“There is good cost control, despite an impact on gross margin from U.S. patent expiries, and a windfall lining up on pandemic antiviral and flu sales which will give Glaxo a strong offset against multiple generic hits in 2009.”
Navid Malik, analyst at Matrix Corporate Capital, looks at GSK’s second-quarter profit, which is up 12 percent (Bloomberg).
“The same regions of the world that lack access to adequate health facilities are, paradoxically, well-served by mobile phone networks. We can take advantage of these mobile networks to bring low-cost, easy-to-use lab equipment out to more remote settings.”
Dan Fletcher, of University of California, Berkeley, explains why he is developing a microscope that attaches to a cellphone for developing world health workers (Canadian Press).
