Category: Feature Stories

The Corona pandemic remains a “health emergency of international concern.” That was the World Health Organization’s (WHO) finding Tuesday, following the independent emergency committee that examined the current hazard situation at a meeting last week. Although many countries are testing significantly less, infection rates are rising worldwide. The high number of unreported infectionsAccording to the WHO, more than half a billion infections have been reported since the pandemic began in early 2020. The accurate figure is likely to be far higher because by no means are all cases recorded. The…

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Vienna may be the world’s most livable city, but it’s not exactly the friendliest. That’s what the new Expat Insider study shows. Unusually high quality of life with unusually unfriendly people – that’s the impression foreign workers working in this country have of Austria, according to the “Expat Insider Study 2022.” Despite top scores for “travel and transport” and “environment and climate,” it only manages 24th place out of 52 in the ranking. The most popular destinations among the 12,000 expats surveyed are Mexico, Indonesia, and Taiwan, and the least…

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A lot is going on in the sky this year: among other things, a giant comet has entered the solar system and will be visible shortly. 2022 is a lucky year for astronomy enthusiasts because some spectacular things could be observed so far. But the year is far from over, and there is something great to discover in July! Under observation since 2017The comet in question is designated C/2017 K2. According to Newsweek, scientists have been tracking the comet since it was first discovered in 2017. When it was discovered,…

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When you fill up with fuel, it’s evident to power your car: Without this fuel, nothing runs. And what kind of fuel you need depends on your car’s engine. E-cars are rising, but two conventional fuel families dominate gasoline and diesel. The classic: gasolineLet’s start with gasoline. When we fill up a gasoline car, we have a choice of three types: Super 95 or E5, Super E10, Super Plus, and E85 or bioethanol. What does the “E” stand for?E5, E10, E85: These abbreviations have nothing to do with food additives.…

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Homophobia is unfortunately still ingrained in many minds. Research is being done on it in social psychology. But only for the last 50 years or so. The word homophobia first appeared in literature in the late 1960s. At that time, Jewish-American psychologist George Weinberg published an article in which he used the term for the first time and thus coined it. He defined homophobia as a kind of disturbance in the brain, to which the sensitive person was more or less at the mercy – just like a phobia. Term…

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According to the United Nations, this striking mark in the world population will reach eight billion people around November 15 this year. Nonetheless, the number of people on our planet is growing slowly. By 2080, it is forecast to stop growing at 10.4 billion people by then, as the United Nations writes in a report for World Population Day on July 11. John Wilmoth, director of the UN Population Division, has many opportunities in global development – despite all the regional differences – especially for developing countries. In addition to…

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Beer is already so intertwined in our daily lives that many drink a glass of it daily. But how healthy is that? An after-work beer here, a cold one there on a balmy summer evening by the canal: It’s easy to reach for a beer bottle. And a beer like that doesn’t do any harm. Wrong. Regular, just daily alcohol consumption, like beer, affects our bodies in many ways – mostly negatively. Process 1: The kidneys are damagedThe kidneys are responsible for cleansing the body, so daily alcohol consumption affects…

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The new Omicron subvariant BA.2.75 has been given its own “nickname.” So far, however, little is known about the descendant of BA.2. Alpha, Delta, Omicron – and now Centaurus. The different coronavirus variants have all been given a Greek letter as their name after the wild type from Wuhan. However, not all of them were relevant until now because they did not catch on. The recently discovered Omicron subvariant BA.2.75 has also been given a name, albeit with a wink: Centaurus. The descendant of the Omicron sub-variant BA.2 may have…

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The number of people suffering from hunger worldwide continued to rise last year, according to United Nations (UN) estimates. Between 702 and 828 million people were affected by hunger in 2021, according to the annual report on the global supply situation, which was presented in New York on Wednesday. It said that that was about 46 million more than the previous year’s mean of 721 million. The challenges of ending hunger and malnutrition were growing, wrote several U.N. agencies, including UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Food and…

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