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Oil Prices Suffer as Dollar Strength Adds to Demand Misery By Investing.com

Oil Prices Suffer as Dollar Strength Adds to Demand Misery By Investing.com

© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – Crude oil prices continued to rack up losses Wednesday, as a surge in the dollar on expectations for tightening from the Federal Reserve added further pressure on sentiment…

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The US is taking a bite out of its food insecurity – here’s one way to scrap the problem altogether

The US is taking a bite out of its food insecurity – here’s one way to scrap the problem altogether

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is set to permanently increase the value of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits by 25% above pre-pandemic levels in October 2021. It’s the biggest change since 1979 to this anti-hunger…

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erudite virologist, excellent mentor and academic giant

erudite virologist, excellent mentor and academic giant

David Olufemi Olaleye, who passed away in July, made an impact on many lives. He was an excellent teacher and mentor – like a father to many. A defender of the oppressed and a forthright…

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Oil drops to $66, lowest since May, on demand concerns By Reuters

Oil drops to $66, lowest since May, on demand concerns By Reuters

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A gas pump is seen hanging from the ceiling at a petrol station in Seoul June 27, 2011. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak 2/2 By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) -Oil dropped to $66…

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How the crisis in container ships could ruin Christmas

How the crisis in container ships could ruin Christmas

Ningbo-Zhousan may not exactly be a household name, but find something in your house made in China and it’s quite likely it was delivered from there. Ningbo-Zhousan, which overlooks the East China Sea some 200km…

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Why I’m testing what invasive insects can see and the smells they like

Why I’m testing what invasive insects can see and the smells they like

Dr Emmett Brown, Dr Victor Frankenstein and Dr Henry Jekyll are just three of the “crazy” scientists who populate fiction. Their methods were controversial and revolutionary – and I have always been especially drawn to…

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How we can improve gender diversity in economics

How we can improve gender diversity in economics

Women are drastically underrepresented in economics. Today in the US, women account for only one-third of economics majors, one-third of first-year PhD in economics students and one-third of newly minted PhDs (Lundberg and Stearns 2019).  As in…

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Gold Holds Steady as Fed Sees Taper Likely Starting This Year By Bloomberg

Gold Holds Steady as Fed Sees Taper Likely Starting This Year By Bloomberg

© Reuters. Gold Holds Steady as Fed Sees Taper Likely Starting This Year (Bloomberg) — held steady after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s July meeting showed most officials agreed they could start reducing the pace…

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Can health insurance companies charge the unvaccinated higher premiums? What about life insurers? 5 questions answered

Can health insurance companies charge the unvaccinated higher premiums? What about life insurers? 5 questions answered

The current COVID-19 wave in the U.S. is mostly affecting unvaccinated Americans, who represent more than 95% of current cases of hospitalization and death. Given the average cost of a COVID-19 hospitalization in 2020 ran…

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Why bother calculating pi to 62.8 trillion digits? It’s both useless and fascinating

Why bother calculating pi to 62.8 trillion digits? It’s both useless and fascinating

Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi – a staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, if these…

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