Inside Economics: Flying blind on oil shock fallout, how will RBNZ respond … plus our R&D dilemma

The war started on the last day of February. So its impact will be buried in the first-quarter numbers. We get the first-quarter labour market and unemployment data on April 8. We’ll see the first-quarter Consumers Price Index inflation on April 21, and we don’t see the first-quarter GDP until June 18. Economists at ASB … Read more

Demetrious Johnson believes Henry Cejudo should retire after UFC Seattle loss: ‘The man almost went blind’

If it were up to Demetrious Johnson, Henry Cejudo had his final fight at UFC Seattle. Johnson, a two-time opponent and now friend of Cejudo, reacted to the main event of this past Saturday’s Fight Night card where Cejudo lost a technical decision to Song Yadong after suffering a brutal, yet accidental eye poke in … Read more

Genetic mutation that results in vision loss named after Irish poet

Researchers from the University College Dublin (UCD) Conway Institute have described a genetic mutation that causes major visual problems in zebrafish. Writing in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal, scientists described how zebrafish with a mutation in the emc1 gene had severe visual impairments. Zebrafish with this genetic abnormality had a thinner … Read more