Tue.Sep 18, 2018

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Nuclear Energy Needs Truth, Not Truthiness

Jim Conca

The distrust of scientists in the U.S. has become a growing ideology used for political purposes, and has become extremely dangerous to our democracy. Nowhere is this more obvious than in nuclear science where truthiness prevails in the news media.

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EXCLUSIVE: Improved Nature Raises $3m to Launch Plant-Based Protein Company

AFN Sustainable Protein

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website. Other investors in the round include Farmington Foods, the Endowment Fund of NC State University, the Wolfpack Investor Network (NC State Alumni) and the company’s m

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EXCLUSIVE: Improved Nature Raises $3m to Launch Plant-Based Protein Company

AFN Sustainable Protein

Improved Nature , a Raleigh, NC-based protein and meat alternative innovator, has raised $3 million in a convertible note round led by Concentric Capital. The company’s products include the Improved Meat portfolio, that “mimics meat in all cooking methods and forms of distribution,” according to the website. Other investors in the round include Farmington Foods, the Endowment Fund of NC State University, the Wolfpack Investor Network (NC State Alumni) and the company’s m