The biggest drop in oil prices in more than a year due to rising interest rates Economy
05 okt 2023 om 12:11 Update: 27 minuten geleden Oil market prices fell by more than 5 percent on Wednesday. This is the largest decline since August last year. You are now paying $85 (about €81) for a barrel of North Sea oil. Lower oil prices could be beneficial for motorists. The fact that oil […]
Estavana Pullman walks away while burning her body in Better Late Than Never
The group visits a sacred area on the Bagmati River where bodies are cremated every day. Everyone is also invited to watch this ritual up close. Heaney even put it on his bucket list. “Because I think this ritual is very beautiful. I think birth is a celebration, but in the end you die and […]
Google’s new phone gets a thermometer and seven years of software updates Technique
04 okt 2023 om 16:30 Update: 12 uur geleden Google introduced its new phones: Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. The phones will have improved cameras and various AI features and updates until 2030. Google hasn’t changed much on the outside of the Pixels. Like the Pixel 7, the new phones also have a clear […]
Twins win 2023 AL Wild Card Series
MINNEAPOLIS — Entering this postseason, the prospect of going deep into October may seem unfathomable to a fan base that has known only playoff heartbreak for the better part of two decades — but the Twins finally shook off the weight of history on Tuesday. So why not these twins? Why not this group? They’re […]
Turns out a recently launched satellite is almost as bright as the brightest stars (and that’s a problem)
When fully operational, the 8 x 8 meter satellite will shine as brightly as Procyon, the eighth brightest star in the night sky. This leads to great frustration among astronomers. When the BlueWalker 3 satellite was launched last year, it immediately caused a stir. Astronomers fear that the satellite, especially because of its enormous size […]
The hole in the ozone layer has never been this big: it is roughly three times the size of Brazil | climate
04 okt 2023 om 22:09 Update: 6 uur geleden The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has never been as large as it is now. The European Space Agency said on Wednesday that its area is 26 million square kilometers, almost three times the size of Brazil. It is normal for the hole to […]
Tens of thousands of healthcare workers have been laid off in the US
ReutersKaiser employees in Los Angeles NOS news•Today, 03:22 In the United States, about 75,000 health care workers have stopped work for three days. A strike has been called at Kaiser Permanente, a nonprofit that 13 million Americans rely on. Workers are striking for higher wages and greater protection against outsourcing. They point to, among other […]
Fixing inflation: Wages under collective labor agreements rose much faster than prices
The Central Bureau of Statistics expects the inflation rate to reach about 2.6 percent in the same period. In the bottom line, this means an improvement of 3.4 percent. Statistics Netherlands indicates that this is the largest real wage increase this century. The large increase is as noticeable as it can be explained. Due to […]
The Chancellor wants to get rid of the term “separation” for maternity leave: “It goes back to the 1950s”
D66 councilor Ilana Ruderkerk believes it is “outdated” for councilors to formally ask to resign if they are pregnant or sick. She also believes that this leave system should be more flexible: now you can be away from your office for only sixteen weeks and no shorter or longer. On X (formerly Twitter), her call […]
Mercury – the innermost planet in our solar system
It is widely accepted that Mercury began contracting more than 3 billion years ago. But remarkably, this process seems to continue to this day, making the smallest planet in our solar system smaller and smaller. Planetary scientists have long known that Mercury is no longer the same size as it was several billion years ago. […]