At first glance, company logos sometimes seem to make more sense, sometimes less. Choosing an apple as a company logo when your company is called Apple is anything but far-fetched. But why did the founders choose a piece of fruit that had already been nibbled on? First of all, we should perhaps clarify where the name Apple came from in the first place. We wouldn’t automatically associate a company that stands for revolutionary technologies with fallen fruit, to say the least. Steve Jobs: Creative genius with a connection to realityThere…
Read MoreDay: January 15, 2025
Why do we laugh? What triggers this happy chaos in us?
Laughter is perhaps the most beautiful thing in the world. From a light smile to a laughing fit that gives us a stomachache: Laughter makes us happy and makes us feel good, really good, in fact. But why do we laugh? And what happens in our bodies when we laugh? Laughter is both a very simple and a highly complex matter. To understand it, we need to look deep inside our bodies. We need 17 muscles just to smile, our so-called mimic muscles. But when we really laugh, it’s not…
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The time has finally come: On Wednesday, 15 January 2025, Vienna will get a little snow, and the federal capital could turn white here and there. After so-called “industrial snow” has already visited Vienna this year and turned parts of the city white, it is now real snow that many Viennese can look forward to on Wednesday, 14 January 2025. As a map from “GeoSphere Austria” shows, the west of the capital, in particular, could get a few centimetres. The Viennese can expect snow, especially in the morningAs the meteorologists…
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