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PREGNANT WOMEN have long been told to avoid drinking and smoking to protect their fetus. Now, men might want to stay away from shaving cream and other personal care products to avoid harming their sperm, reports the Calgary Herald. Research at the University of
Making bubbles
AT A RECENT CONFERENCE IN FRANKFURT, Deutsche Bank CEO John Cryan (leſt) called on the European Central Bank (ECB) to stop pumping “cheap money” into the eurozone, reports the International Business Times. “The era of cheap money in Europe should come to an end — despite the strong
euro,” Cryan said. “We are now seeing signs of bubbles in more and more parts of the capital market.” But ECB president Mario Draghi (right) seemed uncon- cerned. “It is pretty ironic,” he retorted, “to hear these comments from people who supported the independence of the central bank.” As of September, the euro had been steadily gaining against all major currencies
for months — a trend that reportedly raised warning flags with the ECB, although it never openly expressed any concerns. But one analyst said the financial markets had seen the ECB “draghing” it out far too oſten. — Yan Barcelo
CULTURE The Fatberg exhibit
THE MUSEUM OF LONDON recently proved the timelessness of the old saying “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure,” by making a bid to put a chunk of the city’s “fatberg” on display, reports AP News. The fatberg is a huge and repulsively
smelly mass of oil, fat, diapers, condoms and baby wipes that as of early September was clogging one of London’s Victorian sewers. Employees were working away at the 130-tonne blob with high-powered hoses, trying to break it up into smaller chunks. Fatbergs are created when people put things in sinks and toilets that should go
in the garbage, reports the BBC. “Our message to everyone is clear: please bin it — don’t block it,” said the utility company’s head of waste networks. Meanwhile, the director of the museum said adding the fatberg to its exhibit “would raise questions about how we live today.” — YB
6 | CPA MAGAZINE | NOVEMBER 2017 Picture perfect
GOOGLE recently upgraded its Street View cameras to take sharper, more detailed images, reports Business Insider. The cameras are sharp enough to see a
store’s opening hours on a sign and then feed back masses of data into Google’s artificial intelligence algorithms. The head of Google’s mapping division says the added refinements are demanded by clients who are asking questions such as, “What Thai place is open now that does delivery to my address?” But the cameras and algorithms can do other things as well. According to Wired, Stanford researchers were able to predict the income, race and voting patterns of an area’s residents by analyz- ing Street View images of cars. — YB
Massachusetts Amherst shows that phthalates, a class of chemicals used to stabilize scents in personal care products such as shaving cream and shampoo, can cause subtle changes in men’s sperm. Phthalates are now being linked with what is perceived as a global drop in sperm counts. — YB
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