Category: General Interest

After 4.5 hours of sleep, most people feel limp and tired. But there is another way to do it. A study shows you can feel top fit despite a short sleep duration. Maybe you know how it is: Although you plan to go to bed earlier the next night, you end up in bed later than planned. The result: the next morning, you’re tired and unrested. But that could soon change. Be fit as a fiddle after 4.5 hours of sleep – this is how you succeed!Many studies show that…

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Over 80,000 tons of edible food are thrown away yearly in Upper Austria alone. Food waste aside, this also has an impact on traffic. According to a study by the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, around 130 kilograms of edible food ends up in the trash per household and year. Extrapolated to Upper Austria, this adds up to more than 80,000 tons. However, before this food is in the garbage, it is first transported in trucks, sometimes hundreds of kilometres. If this discarded, edible food were loaded…

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Worldwide, the climate movement “Fridays For Future” (FFF) will take to the streets again on March 3. Demonstrations will also take place in Vienna. There will also be strikes for the climate throughout Austria, as there were last September – in Vienna and seven other cities. The climate strikes are already entering their fourth year. March 13, 2019, marks the anniversary of the first day of the protest, in which students in many countries participated. Most recently, in September 2022, there were around 12,000 people in Vienna alone. The movement…

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Not even half a year ago, the iPhone 14 was presented, and already there are concrete rumours about its successor iPhone 15. So 9to5mac CAD files were leaked, allowing very clear conclusions about the upcoming smartphone’s design. The most remarkable finding is the upper side of the screen, or rather the no longer existing notch. Dynamic Island will also take its place in the non-Pro models. This is an oval-shaped notch that houses the front camera and sensors. It also appears from the files that Apple is now venturing away…

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Winter is making its return in many parts of Austria this weekend. A cold front brings not only hard and wet weather but also snow. Friday will start with a few hours of sunshine, but more and more clouds will move in from the north and southwest during the day. There will be rain showers, especially in the country’s northern half. In the south, it will remain largely dry on FridayThe area between the Inn and Waldviertel will be particularly affected. The snow line will continue to move between 1,300…

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The inflation rate in January reached a new record level in this crisis. Energy prices, in particular, are driving inflation to record highs. According to Statistik Austria, the inflation rate for January 2023 rose to 11.2 percent, which was even higher than in December 2022 (10.2 percent). This also shattered the current crisis record from October (11 percent). So while this country’s inflation crisis has worsened, the rest of Europe can take a breather. Year-on-year inflation in the eurozone was 9.2 percent in December and fell to 8.5 percent in…

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Thousands of Austrians received “fake emails” from sex blackmailers. Sextortion” is what investigators call those perfidious extortion emails currently being sent out in the tens of thousands in the name of senior police officers such as that Director General Gerhard Pürstl. The clear accusation can only be cleared up by paying a high Bitcoin fine: “child pornography and sex trafficking.” These had been discovered on respective computers during investigations. “Many recipients go – whether rightly or wrongly unsettled – to the blackmail,” says cyber security expert Dr. Cornelius Granig, who…

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Vitamin B12 is essential for cell division and the nervous system. What are the best foods for this purpose, and why do we not need tablets? Vitamin B12 is important for producing genetic material, such as cells, i.e., blood cell formation, nervous system function, and absorption of folic acid and carbohydrates in the diet. Vitamin B12 also plays a role in the metabolism of homocysteine, which is considered a risk factor for atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Foods containing vitamin B12Vitamin B12 is important for producing genetic material, such as cells,…

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Those new regulations around the women’s retirement age in Austria, which will apply gradually from 2024, are not surprising. After all, the basis for this goes back to 1992. At that time, the Constitutional Court set the course for raising the legal retirement age with its decision. The aim was to align it with the statutory retirement age for men, i.e. 65. At the beginning of February, the National Council and, on Thursday, the Bundesrat, with an amendment of the Social Security law key dates finally concretized and fixed. In…

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