Category: General Interest

While some love to eat spicy food, for others it is tantamount to torture. But is it really healthy to look deep into the spice jar? Or don’t chili, pepper and the like irritate the stomach lining? Unlike sweet, salty, bitter, sour and umami, hot is not a flavor. Rather, it is a sensory impression caused by the heat and pain receptors of the mucous membranes in the mouth, nose and throat. In other words, a kind of pain. Eating spicy for the lineProf. Nicolai Worm, a graduate ecotrophologist, is…

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Anyone considering changing tires before April 15 should keep an eye on the weather forecast. Summer tires have no place on winter roads – regardless of the date, according to the  Austrian Automobile, Motorcycle and Touring Club (ÖAMTC). At the beginning of April, people usually start thinking about changing to summer tires. “In principle, there is nothing to be said against changing over even before April 15, when the situational winter equipment obligation ends,” says ÖAMTC technician Friedrich Eppel. “However, you should always keep an eye on the weather forecast,…

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The threshold of 2,000 people who have died as a result of CoV infection was exceeded in Vienna today. Authorities now reported 2,001 deaths. A new high in the number of intensive care patients was also recorded. 235 Covid-19 patients had to be treated there in Vienna hospitals, nine more than on Friday. This exceeded the previous record of 233 patients on Tuesday. Within the past week, 29 more seriously ill patients had to be transferred to intensive care units in Vienna, an increase of around 14 percent. 834 new…

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This Saturday, Great Britain commemorates Prince Philip, who died on Friday, with gun salutes and minutes of silence. Starting at 12 noon, cannons in numerous cities from London to Edinburgh and Belfast, as well as from Royal Navy warships, will fire 41 shots over a 40-minute period. Salutes are also planned in Gibraltar, according to the Ministry of Defense. Westminster Abbey, where the future Queen and Prince Philip had married in 1947, had already rung its bell 99 times on Friday – once for each year of the deceased’s life.…

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Relief in the labor market comes with opening steps for the gastronomy and tourism industries. Labor Minister Martin Kocher expects a maximum of 350,000 unemployed in the summer, which would be a noticeable relief from the current situation. “We hope that in the course of the summer we can get to a level of unemployment of 330,000 to 350,000 people. That would still be higher than in 2019, but a noticeable relief compared to now,” he said in an interview with the “Wiener Zeitung”. Reduced working hours: “Phase 5” in…

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Education Minister Heinz Faßmann (ÖVP) on Friday evening held out the prospect of Corona vaccinations for school children as well. Speaking on ORF ZiB2, Faßmann said that the path to a reasonably virus-resistant school with vaccinations had been mapped out. By the next school year, he said, he wants to offer vaccination to all students 16 and older. And with the vaccination of the teachers one is almost through. The education minister defended his announcement to bring graduating classes to school despite lockdowns in the East. He said that this…

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The weather in April continues to be changeableApril remains weather-dominant: After a certain weather calming occurs from Friday and warmer temperatures and also the sun should prevail over the weekend, winter strikes again next week. On Tuesday, according to the forecast of the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), morning frost and snowfall down to 500 meters above sea level are again on the agenda. So fruit growers can relax only temporarily. Friday morning still frostyThe details: today, Friday, it will be sunny and above all dry weather in…

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Over the past three months, the Austrian Corona Panel Project has asked 1,500 Austrians whether they have had themselves tested for the corona virus. The number of those who have been tested is rising steadily – but remains at a worryingly low level. This is what project manager and economic sociologist Bernhard Kittel said in the “Ö1 Morgenjournal”. In mid-February, 12 percent said they had themselves tested once a week or more. One month later, the proportion of this group was twice as high. Between mid-January and mid-February, the proportion…

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