What is a race worth? Santa Cruz hosts a European triathlon, and nobody has published the balance sheet yet
We know who won. We do not know what it cost or what it left behind. That sums up, for now, the balance of the European Triathlon Cup that filled Santa Cruz de Tenerife on Sunday 11 October. Start with what can be checked. The race was sprint distance: 750 metres of swimming, 20 km […]
Four times a year, the same beach: how the Canaries are tracing where their rubbish comes from
On Sunday 11 October, at Tazacorte on the island of La Palma, a group of people did something that looks trivial: they counted rubbish. Object by object, type by type, on a stretch of sand chosen in advance. Behind that gesture is a European project with an easy name to remember, CIRCULAROCEAN. The Canary Government’s […]
A year of living in the Canaries costs 4.4% more, and transport is the bill that bites
If you live in the Canaries and feel that getting around costs a little more each month, September’s numbers back you up. Consumer prices in the archipelago were 4.4% higher than a year earlier. The item that ran fastest was transport, up 10%. Atlántico Hoy published the figure on 14 October and attributes it to […]
Do weight-loss drugs slow ageing? The makers say yes, outside experts say prove it
“It’s not like we’re going to reverse age by 30 years or something.” Kevin Duffin of Eli Lilly said that, and it is the most sober line in a story that otherwise sounds like a big promise. The promise is this. Novo Nordisk and Lilly, the two biggest makers of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, told the […]