Missed this week’s news? We have selected nine De Morgen stories from the past week that you can read this weekend.
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1. How does your age affect what you should eat? ‘When you’re in your 80s, there’s less room for treats’
From the age of 19, calorie needs decrease slightly each year – to about eleven calories per year for men and seven for women.Image Shutterstock
As more years pass, your body changes. What impact does this have on your body and do you need fewer calories as you get older? “If you’re in your 20s or 30s, you can still have calories left over for chocolate or beer or a piece of cake,” says one expert. “When you’re in your 80s and only eating about 1,500 calories a day, there’s less room for treats.”
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2. Paul De Grauwe: ‘Deflation is not bad news for the economy’
Paul De Grauwe: ‘What is striking is that the decline in inflation is faster than the increase last year.’ Image Damon De Backer / Wouter Van Vooren
“If all prices fall, the economy may slow down because consumers wait with their purchases because they think prices will fall further. If consumption goes down, production will eventually fall and you will experience a dip in the economy.”
Does deflation threaten the Belgian and Dutch economies? Professor Paul De Grauwe throws oil on the waves. In passing, he takes a swipe at the major banks. “Bank profits have never been higher.”
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3. ‘We pushed the Russians back into Avdiivka, but at night they sent new soldiers. We killed so many that we ran out of supplies of drones.”
Ukrainian soldiers gather before their departure to the front line near the city of Avdiivka.Image NICOLE TUNG / NYT
Thousands of Russian troops have launched a major new offensive in eastern Ukraine since October 10 to capture Avdiivka, a coveted prize that would expand Russia’s control over the Donbas mining region. But after just a few days, this battle in Avdiivka turned out to be perhaps the most expensive of the war for Russia.
For a day and a half, a drone pilot, call sign Boomer, and his navigator, Grek, joined the fight, zooming in on advancing Russian infantry from a bunker on the edge of the battlefield. A third team member loaded the drones with explosives and launched them into the air. “We pushed them back, but at night they sent new soldiers,” Boomer said of the Russian troops. “We killed so many that we ran out of supplies.”
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4. ‘I would have traded it all to not have this disease’: ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry (1969-2023)
Matthew Perry in 2015.Beeld Brian Ach/Invision/AP
“Happiness is a funny word that maybe should be reserved for Hallmark cards,” Matthew Perry said in an interview with People last year. “Happiness is difficult for me. I have moments of joy, of course, but long periods of happiness, I don’t know. I think it’s because I don’t allow myself to. I always think something will go wrong.”
There are 57 titles on his resume, but there is one for which Perry will always be remembered. He became world famous as Chandler Bing in the iconic sitcom Friends, but he would struggle with fame and his addictions to alcohol and painkillers throughout his professional career. Perry died in Los Angeles at the age of 54.
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5. ‘Help us. Please save Israel’: our journalist in Sderot, where the smell of decay is blowing
A damaged house in Sderot. Image AP
A plume of black smoke rises. Two women pass in a car. They stop and open the window. When they hear that we are journalists, they look at us intently. “Help us. Please save Israel.”
The town of Sderot on the edge of Gaza was hit hard by the Hamas raid on October 7. Ninety percent of the population fled. De Morgen went there and spoke to remaining residents. “You can only understand what happened here if you were there.”
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6. ▶ Physicist Thomas Hertog: ‘Einstein did not dare to face the true consequences of his theory’
Physicist and cosmologist Thomas Hertog. Image Thomas Sweertvaegher
As a physicist and cosmologist, Thomas Hertog worked for a long time with the late Stephen Hawking, and wrote the international bestseller The Origin of Time about it. Together with Hawking he developed a revolutionary vision of the Big Bang.
In the podcast The Insight, he takes us on a journey through the universe, and explains how new ideas arise and why the chance of extraterrestrial life is actually not that great.
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7. Higher savings interest rates, Disney+ becomes more expensive and comes with free Telenet WiFi: this will change for your portfolio on November 1
Image for illustration.Image Shutterstock / Irina Shatilova
Traditionally, on the first day of the month, things change that affect your portfolio. We list the most important changes that will be implemented on November 1.
It took a little longer than expected, but we are gradually seeing the banks increasing their interest on savings accounts one by one. People who have activated eBox – an electronic mailbox for official documents – will no longer receive paper traffic fines from November 1. And a subscription to the Disney+ streaming service is becoming more expensive.
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8. Controversy again at Vooruit: did the party make a mistake in its approach to the MeToo file?
Conner Rousseau during press conference. Image Thomas Nolf
“Thank you for joining me today. I also know that you will do everything you can to protect me, but I am having a very difficult time with it. I also know that you need that complaint to intervene, but I really don’t know if I can and want to do that.” An ex-employee of Vooruit is speaking in a WhatsApp message to her direct manager
For the umpteenth time there is an atmosphere of scandal around Vooruit. This time because the party paid money to a former employee after a complaint about sexual misconduct. Did she make a mistake?
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9. An evening of raves with Amber Broos: ‘My head is constantly moving. Performing feels like emptying my mental garbage can
Amber Broos in Waagnatie. Image Irene Van Impe
“You see that guy? He has been following our Amber since she was thirteen.” Mother Elke smiles proudly when she sees how the queue for her daughter at the side of the stage is getting longer.
After Charlotte de Witte and Amelie Lens, our nightlife has given birth to a new female superstar DJ. An evening of raves with energy bomb Amber Broos (21) and her team. “A Waag nation in every European country: that is the three-year plan.”
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