With an extensive service in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the World Synod of the Catholic Church ends on Sunday after three and a half weeks. The service will be presided over by Pope Francis. Deliberations on the final declaration lasted into the evening on Saturday. No concrete decisions were expected. There will be another such meeting next year in October.The World Synod is considered one of the pope’s most important projects. Among the approximately 360 participants with voting rights were, for the first time, Catholic lay people, including about…
Read MoreDay: October 29, 2023
How to start the working week well despite the time change!
Yesterday, Sunday, ended the daylight saving time: As good as that may sound at first, it can make the start of the new work week more complex, for example, if you have trouble sleeping—tips for the changeover.On October 29, the clocks were set back one hour. For some people, the end of daylight saving time means that it is suddenly already dark when they leave the office or the factory floor. In addition, the shift affects our biorhythms – fatigue, depressive moods, lack of concentration, irritability, or even loss of…
Read More2 super-Earths found in habitable zone
The list of places where life could exist in space is growing. With the help of NASA’s TESS satellite, 2 new exoplanets have been found. According to a research team from the Spanish University of La Laguna, they are located in the habitable zone. Both planets were discovered at the star TOI-2095. The red dwarf is 137 light-years away from our solar system. The 2 planets orbiting it have been named TOI-2095 b and TOI-2095 c. Only a little bigger than the earth, but much heavierThe distance between the red…
Read MoreAfter rain and foehn comes the cold front
On Monday, the southern foehn situation will strengthen over Austria. On the southern side of the Alps, it is often cloudy with cloud accumulation, and it rains more often during the day. Otherwise, from Vorarlberg to Salzburg, extensive cloud fields will pass through, and the sun will shine only occasionally. Further east, it will initially be partly cloudy due to fog or high fog. Otherwise, there will be frequent sunny spells in the first half of the day before more clouds move in. From the evening hours and during the…
Read MoreIn Austria already 2 million born abroad
As of January 1, 2023, 1.976 million people with a foreign place of birth lived in Austria. An analysis of the Integration Fund shows this. In 2022, the number of people moving to Austria reached a record high of 261,900 (2021: 101,700). 55.6% came from third countries; 100,700 were nationals of other EU or EFTA countries or from the UK.A total of around 1.976 million people with a foreign place of birth lived in Austria as of January 1, 2023, 16.4 percent more than in 2018, and they now account…
Read MoreClimate crisis should be recognized as a health emergency
The World Health Organization (WHO) should declare the climate and natural crisis a health emergency, according to scientists worldwide.More than 200 scientific journals simultaneously issued a call to do so before the next World Health Assembly in spring 2024. These include renowned journals such as “The Lancet” and “The British Medical Journal” (“BMJ”). It is a dangerous mistake to consider the climate and nature crises separately, the appeal says. “The climate crisis and biodiversity loss are both damaging human health, and they are linked,” “BMJ” Editor-in-Chief Kamran Abbasi shared. “Therefore,…
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