Category: Travel

  • In a whirl: aesthetic overload in Vienna | Travel | The Guardian

    Barely halfway through our first morning in Vienna and my wife, Alexa, has already succumbed to Stendhal syndrome. Named after the 19th-century French author who first described the phenomenon on a visit to Florence, Stendhal syndrome is brought on by over exposure to artworks of sublime beauty. The sufferer presents with heart palpitations, dizzy spells and, in the most severe cases, cardiac arrest. Alexa’s bout, which came on somewhere between Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow and Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s Water, a surreal portrait composed of fish, in the magnificent Kunsthistorisches Museum, passed without the need for medical attention.

    Source: In a whirl: aesthetic overload in Vienna | Travel | The Guardian

  • Does Having an MBA Help in Today’s Business World?

    How important is having an MBA in the business world today? The question is sure to spark debate. For every MBA holder and business school that staunchly defends the degree, critics question the expense and the relevancy in today’s swiftly changing business world. Below we hear some of the pros and cons.

    Source: Does Having an MBA Help in Today’s Business World?

  • The Connoisseur’s Guide to Japan for the Tokyo Olympics – Robb Report

    If a word can ever be said to sum up a nation’s character, the concept of gaman defines Japan. Consider the range of meanings it conveys: patience, silent suffering, perseverance, toleration of hardship, self-sacrifice, a fortifying sense of collective strength, solidarity with fellow sufferers. It’s what got the country through centuries of feudalism, World War II and earthquakes and, today, continues to shore up the populace as they endure tsunamis, rush-hour trains and drug-free childbirth.If you’re following the Olympic flame to Tokyo this summer, you’ll need plenty of gaman. The Japanese capital will be abysmally crowded and hot, it will be peak mosquito season and good luck getting a restaurant booking. Your dream of sushi in a charming local izakaya stands a high chance of being ruined by beery British soccer fans and Uzbek weight-lifting enthusiasts.

    Source: The Connoisseur’s Guide to Japan for the Tokyo Olympics – Robb Report

  • Unfolding highway bridge unfurls like an umbrella

    An imaginative new approach to bridge-building was demonstrated for the first time in Austria last week, where engineers have connected the opposing sides of two rivers with a novel construction method likened to opening an umbrella. These unfolding bridges promise a number of benefits over traditional techniques, saving considerable time, money and impact on the local landscape.

    Source: Unfolding highway bridge unfurls like an umbrella

  • The American restaurant is on life support | The Counter

    We’re eating at street-corner stalls and food trucks, in front of the TV and at the grocery—everywhere but restaurants. They might not be here when we get back.In a week, The New York Times would run a rave review of FieldTrip, a rice-centric little place in Harlem, New York City. Crowds of eager diners would suddenly descend, and the Sweetgreen chain, as well as the folks at Rockefeller Center and developers around the country, would get in touch about possible alliances.

    Source: The American restaurant is on life support | The Counter

  • Financial markets interactive app for students

    This is a live interactive dictionary with 9800 presets that searches the net for everything about Economics, Finance, Money and Banking. Pick and click, no typing, never goes out of date and searches in 10 languages!

    New for 2020, a new series of Economic Interactive Notes, Financial Market, Money and Banking charts, graphs, videos, terms and definitions with over 9800 quick links! Great for students on anybody that wants to keep up with all the terminology. This is an interactive series that helps guide you and keeps you up to date on all the economic terminology past and present including access to charts, graphs and video presentations on the subject. A great educational learning tool too; that keeps everybody on the same page! In the guidebook, you look in the index of what you want to search and then you click on the button next to it, Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, Duckduckgo, Facebook, Twitter, Slide Share, YouTube or Pinterest and you instantly have you search items displayed. For PC, Mac, Pad or iPhone.

    Search in any of the ten languages available.

    Free copies available for educational institutions and those with learning disabilities.

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  • Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones – Reuters

    Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models, to induce owners to buy replacement phones or batteries.

    Source: Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones – Reuters

  • RG Richardson Interactive Glossary

    The RG Richardson Interactive Multi-language.
    This is all about no more typing with over 9900 preset searches for 8 Search Engines! These guides never go out of date due to the power of the internet! Translate in your language through your browser. You can now avoid spelling mistakes and language difficulties making guide simple enough for even for those with learning disabilities to use. Stop using paper!

  • Narvik 2020 – Norway welcomes the world | White Circus – Weiß Zirkus – Cirque Blanc

    In one week, 500 of the best young ski racers in the world from 50 nations will gather for the 2020 FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships. This year, for the first time ever, the Championship w…

    Source: Narvik 2020 – Norway welcomes the world | White Circus – Weiß Zirkus – Cirque Blanc

  • Fletchers Espace Culinaire – Montreal, Québec

    The menu itself curates Jewish cuisine from the last several millennia. The Middle East is represented with  rosewater chai and massafan cookies, the Mediterranean with a halloumi tartine and za’atar fried eggs, and North Africa with harissa mayo atop breakfast sandwiches.Of course, Jewish staples take center stage, but not without  regional twists. A Morrocan-style bagel board comes with preserved lemon cream cheese and ras-el hanout gravlax. Gefilte fish appears twice on the breakfast menu, in club sandwich and taco form. A show-stopping chocolate babka french toast winks toward Lebanon with pomegranate molasses and candied pistachios.

    Source: Fletchers Espace Culinaire – Montreal, Québec – Gastro Obscura