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Unless you’ve been on the moon for the last 12 months, you may have an inkling that prices are rising. From Berlin to Buenos Aires, our hard-earned cash is going considerably less far than before. The UK just chalked up its highest annual inflation figures in a decade, with special mentions for restaurant receipts, second-hand cars and those increasingly unsettling electricity bills.
Central bankers have been saying all year that this inflation is temporary, but they’re under growing pressure to stamp it out. The US Federal Reserve is already reining back its money-printing programme and the Bank of England is talking about a bumper interest-rate rise in time for Christmas. But economist Muhammad Ali Nasir says they need to stick to their original instincts and hold the line – or else risk halting the nascent COVID recovery.
Bird flu is again breaking out in Europe. We look at the causes and to what extent humans are at risk. Also today is a double bill of new research that could relieve sufferers of endometriosis, which affects one in ten women.
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Steven Vass
Business + Economy Editor
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A lot of hot air.
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Muhammad Ali Nasir, University of Huddersfield
Central bankers are coming under mounting pressure to get inflation under control.
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Epidemiologists in protective suits collecting a dead bird from the sea beach in the course of the spreading of the bird flu, Germany.
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Arjan Stegeman, Utrecht University
Each year in spring and summer, waterbirds mingle on their breeding grounds in Siberia and mix their flu viruses, creating new variants they then bring to Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Neuropathic pain doesn’t respond to painkillers.
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Lydia Coxon, University of Oxford; Katy Vincent, University of Oxford
Our research revealed around 40% of women with endometriosis have neuropathic pain – a type of pain that doesn’t respond to traditional pain treatments.
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Health + Medicine
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Annalise Weckesser, Birmingham City University; Stella Bullo, Manchester Metropolitan University
GPs don’t always recognise the metaphors and similes women use to describe their pain – which could mean delays in a diagnosis.
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Rajib Dasgupta, Jawaharlal Nehru University
The festive season in India did not lead to any surges and the prediction of a third wave during October–November did not turn out to be right.
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Robert Jacobs, University of Rochester
Errors don’t necessarily mean your mind is faulty. They may actually be a sign of a cognitive system with limited capacity working efficiently.
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Darel Cookson, Nottingham Trent University; Daniel Jolley, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Rachel Povey, Staffordshire University; Robert Dempsey, Manchester Metropolitan University
Conspiracy theories can make parents hesitant to vaccinate their children.
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Business + Economy
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James Fowler, University of Essex
The new service’s ultra cheap deals are a step towards what the public was promised when UK trains were privatised in the 1990s.
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Leon Davis, Teesside University; Dan Plumley, Sheffield Hallam University
It’s the most expensive FIFA World Cup in history.
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Politics + Society
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Maria Teresa Ferazzoli, University of Sheffield; Julie Walsh, University of Sheffield
For transnational families, going home is an important cultural and care practice.
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Environment + Energy
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Vera O'Riordan, University College Cork
From buses in Bogotá to cycling through Cambridge, we can learn valuable lessons from how countries across the world deliver sustainable transport.
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