How desk jobs alter your brain – and why they're so tiring
Oct 21, 2022 06:19 am UTC| Life
A long day in the office can leave you empty of energy and overcome with desire for TV and a takeaway. But youve been sitting down all day. So why do you feel as tired as your friends who have physical jobs? Struggling...
Oct 21, 2022 06:07 am UTC| Life
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred on a variety of workplace maladies, including the great resignation, quiet quitting, overemployment, labour shortages and conflicts between managers and employees over returning to...
Eider to release trekking boot with outsoles from Nexen tire byproducts
Oct 20, 2022 23:27 pm UTC| Nature Economy Business Life
South Korean outdoor brand Eider will offer trekking boots with outsoles from rubber byproducts during tire manufacturing in collaboration with Nexen Tire Corp. The tire byproducts retain the compound properties of a...
Hyatt opens hotel in Toyota's Fuji Motorsports Forest
Oct 20, 2022 22:33 pm UTC| Business Economy Sports Life
Hyatt has opened the Fuji Speedway Hotel in Shizuoka, its first Unbound Collection property in Japan and among several attractions in the new Fuji Motorsports Forest project developed by Toyota. It is flanked by...
Marine sports equipment sales up in S. Korea due to popularity of surfing, yachting
Oct 19, 2022 23:45 pm UTC| Life Sports Economy Business
Marine sports such as surfing, scuba diving, yachting, and others have gained popularity in South Korea in recent years, according to data analyzed by KB Kookmin Card Co. The study showed a 140 percent increase in...
US flying car company Joby eyes Japanese market
Oct 19, 2022 23:44 pm UTC| Business Economy Life
California-based Joby Aviation Inc. has applied for certification of its revolutionary all-electric aircraft for commercial passenger service for use in Japan. Japanese and US regulatory authorities confirmed that they...
BMW boss sees hydrogen cars, not EVs, to be ‘hippest’ to drive
Oct 19, 2022 23:44 pm UTC| Nature Life Economy Business
BMW chairman Oliver Zipse thinks hydrogen, and not batteries, will soon be the next trend and most desirable vehicular power source. Zipse added that the hydrogen market was some years behind electric, but would soon be...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects