Duncan Weldon

Minds blown: are we getting dumber?

Rosie Bloor, Mark Johnson, Duncan Weldon, Anne Rowe

A decade-old OECD survey reveals that one-fifth of adults globally lack functional skills needed for employment, with Finland leading rankings while cognitive scores decline in the US and Italy. Meanwhile, Russia's economy grew by 3.6% despite sanctions, forcing its central bank to raise interest rates to 21% to curb inflation and stabilize the falling ruble against the Chinese yuan. In a historical note, Shalom Nagar, the Israeli prison officer who executed Adolf Eichmann in 1962, has died after suffering severe trauma from the act before finding spiritual solace through Jewish concepts of good deeds.