Category: Feature Stories

Some foods go bad much faster in the fridge! We’ll tell you how to make sure they stay fresh longer instead. The refrigerator was a revolutionary invention that made life easier for everyone. However, even though we all grew up with it, we still make crucial mistakes when using the refrigerator.After shopping, many people put all their food directly into the fridge – they want it to last as long as possible. That’s good in principle – but some foods stay anything but fresh when refrigerated. tomatoesIt’s better not to…

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Wine is a popular alcoholic beverage that millions of people worldwide appreciate. It is made from fermented grapes and comes in two main varieties: red and white. At the same time, both types of wine have unique flavours and characteristics, many wonders which are best for their health. In our gallery, we awaken some possible benefits of red or white wine. Despite everything, it is always an alcoholic beverage; therefore, you must be careful and limit its consumption. The healthiest choice?Red wine is often touted as the healthier alternative due…

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With rising living costs, many people are forced to take on extra work to survive. Concerns about the climate and inflation have added to the daily stress of survival. But as necessary as a result may be, you have to slow down sometimes. You may not know when to take a break, but your body does, and it will tell you through physical changes. For example, recent research shows that work-related stress costs the UK around £28 billion annually. British insurer Axa UK and the Centre for Economics and Business…

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Especially in times of inflation, energy crisis or corona pandemic, we are always looking for good tips to save money in the household. But be careful with this tip because it could cost you even more! Whether saving on heating by preventing drafts or looking at offers in the supermarket, saving has long been a topic, and above all, there are many tricks for saving electricity. But with this tip, especially TV owners should pay attention. Should you leave the TV’s standby mode on or turn it off when it…

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We celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. In the Easter Vigil, we sing joyfully and probably with all our hearts: Hallelujah, death is conquered. Christ is risen! When the burning Easter candle is carried into the darkness of the church, there is no doubt, Jesus lives! Death, where is your victory? Death, where is your sting?But how is it when death meets us in real life?Of course, death involves grief because death is always pain, loss, and horror.Although we are aware that death is part of life, confronting it is…

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There is an anecdote about a child who comes home from school crying. He has been told that the Christ Child does not exist. The parents know the time has come and explain the situation. Still sniffling, the girl says, “Then we’re glad we still have the Easter Bunny.” In Austria, you can even be especially happy because the bunny is far from the only custom for Easter, which culminates this year from April 8 to 10. The egg also takes center stage. This was already revered in ancient Egypt…

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Good Friday and Holy Saturday, as days of Jesus Christ’s suffering, death and burial, constitute the darkest days in the church year. They are the darkest days in the Christian calendar – and at the same time, they are an important part of Easter, the highest holiday in Christianity: Good Friday and Holy Saturday. It is an “unbelievable” event in the truest sense of the word that Christians remember on Good Friday: after this day, after Maundy Thursday, the focus is on nothing other than the failure of their hope…

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Maundy Thursday focuses on the message of Jesus’ Last Supper with his twelve disciples. Maundy Thursday marks the beginning of the “holy three days.” The name Maundy Thursday probably goes back to the Middle High German word “Greinen” or “Grienen,” which means “to lament.” On this day, sinners who had repented, the “Greinenden,” was welcomed back into the community. However, some scholars also point out that since the 4th century, Holy Thursday was an ecclesiastical day of rejoicing, when those who had previously been excommunicated were again admitted to communion…

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Social isolation can make people as tired as food deprivation. That’s according to a study by Viennese psychologists who also considered data from the first CoV lockdown in Austria and Italy. The scientific journal “Psychological Science” interprets the observation as a consequence of a basic need that has gone out of joint, from which some people suffer greatly. Less energy, more fatigueOn the one hand, the team led by Giorgia Silani of the Department of Psychology at the University of Vienna studied the reactions and perceptions of 30 female participants…

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