British social workers decided today to allow an eight-year-old boy who weighs almost 90kg to remain at home with his mother, who has refused to stop feeding him junk food. Connor McCreaddie’s mother says her 14-stone, 89kg son will not eat healthy food like fruits and vegetables and had rejected a suggestion that she put […]
Yummy and good for the brain? New studies suggest a specially formulated type of cocoa may boost brain function and delay decline as people age. Scientists, speaking at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, presented results from early studies testing the effects on the brain of […]
Having boldly gone where no spud has before, Chinese space potatoes are now the latest culinary fad to hit the country’s ultra-trendy commercial hub of Shanghai. Slightly sweet and purple in color, the potatoes, named Purple Orchid Three, are bred from seeds that mutated while being carried aboard a Chinese spacecraft. Grower Haikou Purple Orchid […]
The Big Mac index is based on the theory of purchasing-power parity (PPP), according to which exchange rates should adjust to equalise the price of a basket of goods and services around the world. Our basket is a burger: a McDonald’s Big Mac. The table below shows by how much, in Big Mac PPP terms, […]