Cluster: Swiss Identity

Magic mushroom ingredient inhibits negative thoughts

This content was published on May 7, 2014 Emotions help individuals adjust to the environment and react to stress and strain, but are also needed for cognitive processes, physiological reactions and social behavior. They are linked to the part of the brain known as the limbic system, especially the amygdala. These almond-shaped sections of the brain are involved in memory and decision-making, but…

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Travellers fight for turf

This content was published on May 7, 2014

The trouble with travellers

This content was published on May 7, 2014 Ernst Lehmann has nothing bad to say about his new, temporary neighbours beyond the fact that they hooked up a hose to a tap in his garden without asking. The spry retiree continually stops his gardening to look over the fence at the field occupied by the Jenish group’s dozens of vehicles. With the exception…

125 years of teaching fashion and design

This content was published on May 7, 2014 Phinkha Leng Sok works on the fine fabrics of a dress for a private client, an elaborate creation that requires the highest accuracy and concentration. Phinkha and his colleagues are being trained as part of a three year apprenticeship course in fashion design, tailoring, and dressmaking.The school is Modeco that started to operate in 1889…

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Vatican’s Swiss guards take oath

This content was published on May 6, 2014 The pope had a formal audience with Guard members, as well as their families and friends, on Monday. He asked them to “be firm in your faith and generous in your charity towards the people you meet”, reminding them they were among the first to meet visitors to the Vatican. Twenty of the new guards…

Demographics

Tougher alcohol limits cut booze-linked crashes

This content was published on May 5, 2014 Before the law was tightened up there were 630 accidents where alcohol played a role, which resulted in serious injuries on Swiss roads every year – a further 80 were fatal incidents. According to recently published figures from the Federal Statistical Office (BfS), in the last few years the number has dropped to 500 crashes…

Culture

Illuminating nature’s raw brilliance

This content was published on May 3, 2014 Baselgia took photos in his home valley, the Engadine, but also travelled to the far north of Norway, to the Tierra del Fuego islands off the southern tip of South America, and to the equator. His use of extremely long exposures has created raw, intense photos of mountains and plains, oceans and coasts, water and…

Culture

Battle for future of UNESCO wine region

This content was published on May 2, 2014 All is quiet on the steep, narrow stone-walled vineyards at Chexbres overlooking Lake Geneva. That is except for the occasional chirping of birds and the scraping noises made by workers clearing weeds from one of the 10,000 terraces. Constant Jomini makes his way along the lines of vines on his four-hectare property, inspecting the first…

Demographics

Swiss children cost up to CHF1,000 per month

This content was published on Apr 29, 2014 According to the Federal Statistical Office, which reported figures from the Household Budget Survey 2009-2011, couples with one child had direct costs of CHF942 on average. If children had siblings, the costs went down. Families with two children spent CHF754 per child per month, and families with three children spent CHF607. Cost incurred by single…

Culture

Bogeyman forecasts hot summer

This content was published on Apr 29, 2014 The annual event held on the third Monday in April marks the end of winter. The böögg’s head is stuffed with firecrackers and perched on top of a huge pyre. It is said that the less time it takes for his head to explode, the better the summer will be. This year it exploded after…

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