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Scientists have discovered more than 200 genes linked to ageing and have found switching them off extends life
Deleting genes could boost lifespan by 60 per cent, say scientists - Telegraph
That makes Norway's incarceration rate just 75 per 100,000 people, compared to 707 people for every 100,000 people in the US. On top of that, when criminals in Norway leave prison, they stay out. It has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the world at 20%. The US has one of the highest: 76.6% of prisoners are re-arrested within five years.
Why Norway's prison system is so successful - Business Insider
Being an elephant is risky business. I'm not talking about poaching, habitat loss, or fighting with males in musth—I'm talking about the simple fact of living. Every time an elephant cell divides, it runs the risk of going haywire and developing into an out-of-control tumor. Since elephants have 100 times the number of cells that human beings do, they should have 100 times the risk of getting cancer. That's a lot of mistakes waiting to happen.
Why elephants don’t get cancer: extra tumor-suppressors
Federal Reserve officials now seem open to deploying negative interest rates to combat the next serious recession even though they rejected that option during the darkest days of the financial crisis in 2009 and 2010.
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Technical analysts caution that laggards — meaning stocks that had been underperfoming — fared best in the recent runup. “The obvious theme since the September low has been mean reversion,” says Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at MKM Partners, in a note Sunday. He says the best-performing industry groups since Sept. 28 have included energy, materials and automotive-related companies. “In other words, the laggards have led the rally,” he writes.
What technical analysts are watching after last week’s big market rally - MarketWatch
J. Michael Pearson has become a billionaire from his tough tactics as the head of the fast-growing Valeant Pharmaceuticals International. And consumers like Bruce Mannes, a 68-year-old retired carpenter from Grandville, Mich., are facing the consequences. Mr. Mannes has been taking the same drug, Cuprimine, for 55 years to treat Wilson disease, an inherited disorder that can cause severe liver and nerve damage. This summer, Valeant more than quadrupled its price overnight. Medicare will now have to cover about $35,000 for the 120 capsules he takes each month, and Mr. Mannes will have to pay about $1,800 a month out of pocket, compared with about $366 he paid in May.
Valeant’s Drug Price Strategy Enriches It, but Infuriates Patients and Lawmakers - The New York Times
Valeant is known for buying one company after another, and laying off their employees to achieve savings, while accumulating a debt of about $30 billion. It spends an amount equivalent to only 3 percent of its sales on research and development, which it views as risky and inefficient compared to buying existing drugs. Traditional big drug companies spend 15 to 20 percent of sales on research and development.
Valeant’s Drug Price Strategy Enriches It, but Infuriates Patients and Lawmakers - The New York Times
Relative to its 2012 forecasts, the International Monetary Fund has reduced its forecasts for U.S. GDP in 2020 by 6 percent, for Europe by 3 percent, for China by 14 percent, for emerging markets by 10 percent and for the world as a whole by 6 percent. These dismal figures assume there will be no recessions in the industrial world and an absence of systemic crises in the developing world. Neither can be taken for granted.
The global economy is in serious danger - The Washington Post
it’s important to spend time unwinding before going to bed. That might include taking a bath, listening to music or reading a book. As well trying more unusual ways to relax, such as walking barefoot in the garden (an exercise which some early studies claim not only reduces stress, but can boost overall health), Aydogmus has found meditation particularly helpful in calming the mind before bed time.
Lying awake at 3am? Perhaps you should try biphasic sleeping | Guardian Small Business Network | The Guardian
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China may be one of the last nations to ride the wave of industrialisation to prosperity. As shown by Dani Rodrik of Harvard University, over the course of the 20th century, peak manufacturing employment has steadily declined in emerging economies. In Britain, the first country to industrialise, manufacturing employment peaked at 45 per cent before the first world war. By contrast, Mr Rodrik suggests manufacturing employment in Brazil, India and China has already peaked below 15 per cent.
Cheap automation raises risk of ‘premature deindustrialisation’ - FT.com
Can aging be slowed by using gene therapy to make permanent changes to a person’s DNA? One Seattle-area woman says she has tried exactly that. Her claim has entangled some high-profile American academics in a strange tale of do-it-yourself medicine that involves plane flights to Latin America, an L.A. film crew, and what’s purported to be the first attempt to use gene therapy to forestall normal aging.
Elizabeth Parrish, CEO of BioViva, Claims to Undergo Anti-Aging Therapy | MIT Technology Review
I was blown away when Microsoft's Brian Roper plugged his new Lumia 950 smartphone to a computer monitor and Windows 10 appeared. It was technically the mobile version of Windows 10, but you couldn't tell at first glance. It was being up-scaled by Microsoft's magic feature, called Continuum, to look like a normal desktop operating system.
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The investment climate, despite the recent rebound in stocks has four pillars of skepticism: The global economy - viewed as about to collapse into a recession. There were many stories on this theme last week, using whatever recession definitions were necessary to induce worry; Policy errors by central banks have created a decline that they are now powerless to halt; Earnings estimates are too high, despite recent reductions; and Earnings "quality" is low, suggesting that financial engineering rather than sales are behind whatever reports are positive.
Weighing The Week Ahead: Earnings Recession? Will It Matter? | Seeking Alpha
Ad blockers, which Apple first allowed on the iPhone in September, promise to conserve data and make websites load faster. But how much of your mobile data comes from advertising? We measured the mix of advertising and editorial on the mobile home pages of the top 50 news websites – including ours – and found that more than half of all data came from ads and other content filtered by ad blockers. Not all of the news websites were equal.
The ongoing slump in oil prices is forcing Saudi Arabia to retrench and bring home tens of billions of dollars that it has overseas. Bloomberg reports that Saudi Arabia has pulled out between $50 and $70 billion that it has invested around the world with asset managers. The withdrawal of funds occurred over the past six months. The staggering sum is a sign that the massive OPEC producer is scrambling for financial resources to plug its widening budget deficit, as well as cover the mounting costs for its military campaign in Yemen.
Fund Managers Have Their Own ‘Black Monday’ Thanks To The Saudis | OilPrice.com
A typical education in the west leaves you with more insight into ancient Rome or Egypt than into our financial system – and while there are plenty of books and DVDs for lay people about, say, quantum mechanics, evolution or the human genome, before the crash there was virtually nothing to explain finance to outsiders in accessible language. The City, as John Lanchester put it in his book about the 2008 crash, Whoops!, is still “a far-off country of which we know little”.
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A report prepared for the Lima meeting by the Group of Thirty, a body of central bankers, regulators, and economists, reached similar conclusions. Among developed economies, according to the report, the rich have gotten richer, their homes and investments have increased in value, and they’re the least likely to spend more.
Fed Rate Decision: QE Didn’t Quite Cut It, So Now What? - Bloomberg Business
"The market does not appear to be discounting negative knock-on effects. The outcome for recall costs and fines is unclear and largely depends on the engine performance post repair," said a Credit Suisse analyst in its report on the scandal. Estimates from Credit Suisse peg the costs of Dieselgate at a worst-case scenarios of $87 billion.
VW’s Dieselgate Scandal Could Cost Up To $87 Billion In Total | OilPrice.com
Study of sleep patterns of groups living in Tanzania, Namibia and Bolivia with lifestyles similar to our paleolithic ancestors shows similar late-night habits to humans with internet and TV-based routines
Modern life is rubbish? Sleep is just the same as ever, say scientists | Science | The Guardian
Earlier this year, the International Institute for Strategic Studies published an armed conflict survey that put Mexico in third place after Syria and Iraq when it came to fatalities. But how did it get to this? "Mexico has always been violent," says Javier Sicilia, a poet and activist whose son was killed in an episode blamed on drugs gangs.
Missing students: Mexico's violent reality - BBC News
At a macro level, it's understandably troubling. When 48% of men and 50% of women report not having had sex in the past month, it's not going to help the "demographic time bomb" that's coming toward the country.
'Herbivore men' and sex in Japan - Tech Insider
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