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The Big ReadNutrition

The Mice Kept Eating Less and Put the Weight Back On Anyway. That Is the Interesting Part.

A Yale study found semaglutide switches the brain's hunger neurons on rather than off, and that those neurons are required for fat loss to last. Remove them and the mice ate just as little and regained the weight within fifteen days.

Aug 25, 2026/4 min read

The Diary

  1. 30 Aug – 11 DecOn now

    Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Dubai

    The Gulf Exhibition Season Starts in Two Weeks and Runs to December

    Riyadh opens at the end of August, Abu Dhabi takes November, Dubai takes the rest. Four shows account for most of the region's commercial calendar between now and the new year.

  2. 4 Sep – 23 MayOn now

    England

    The Women's Super League Adds Two Clubs and Finds Out What Expansion Costs

    Fourteen teams instead of twelve, a season running from 4 September to 23 May, and twenty-six league games where there were twenty-two. Growing a league is easier than filling it.

  3. 2–5 NovIn 3 weeks

    Abu Dhabi

    ADIPEC Still Runs on Oil, Whatever the Programme Says

    Abu Dhabi's energy week arrives on 2 November with hydrogen and carbon capture across the agenda and hydrocarbons across the balance sheets. Both things are true at once.

  4. 23–26 NovIn 6 weeks

    Dubai World Trade Centre

    Big 5 Global Is Where Next Year's Buildings Get Specified

    Twenty-seven hundred exhibitors at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 23 November, and three co-located shows that have quietly turned a construction fair into an urban development event.

  5. 7–11 DecIn 8 weeks

    Expo City, Dubai

    GITEX Moves to Expo City, and Brings Seven Shows With It

    Six thousand eight hundred exhibitors, two hundred thousand visitors and four hundred government entities across five days in December. The interesting part is what has been bolted onto the side of it.

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Answers

Why did Asian stocks fall on Thursday?

The trigger came from the United States. On Wednesday the S&P 500 had its worst day since July after September consumer prices rose 3.7 percent from a year…

How did the bleached corals recover?

Bleaching happens when warm water makes a coral expel the algae living in its tissue, which supply most of its food.

What do we know about the attack on Aramco's headquarters?

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said forces carried out "a high-quality military operation targeting Aramco in Dhahran," and that missiles and drones…

Which Renoir paintings were stolen?

The two works still missing were a 1910 portrait of the actor Gabrielle Colonna-Romano and "Jeune femme au puits" (Young Woman at the Well), from 1886.

Who is performing at the 2026 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show?

The all-women lineup is Megan Moroney, Megan Thee Stallion, Tate McRae and the group Katseye.

What did the trial test?

The participants had recently stopped GLP-1 medication after losing more than 10 percent of their body weight, an average of just over 18 percent.

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