Let me be very clear. I do not like beets. I’ve spent over fifty years disliking beets.
I’ve tried them boiled (gag-inducing), roasted (almost tolerable, but no), raw (the additional chewing required just prolongs the misery), and picked (where’s the bathroom?).
To me, beets taste like garden dirt laced with a little bit of sugar. Interestingly, there is validity to that perception. Beets contain a naturally-occurring compound called geosmin, and geosmin gives beets their dirt-like . . . er. . . earthy flavour.
Some people like this earthy flavor.
I’m not one of them.
Just as interesting – at least
June 7, 2023 · 8:50 AM
If so, it may well be because of your genes according to an article at SBS.com. Particular genes determine whether you can detect a bitter chemical (called PTC) in broccoli and other brassicas like cauliflower and brussels sprouts.
“On average, about 70% of us can taste something bitter in broccoli or PTC, but those with two copies of the bitter sensitivity gene are closer to 20%, and they are much more likely to hate it.”
US President George HW Bush said in March 1990, “I do
It’s safe I think to make these four assumptions after a long, grueling week in the markets.
First, you thoroughly understand the blowup of Silicon Valley Bank (SIVB for short) by reading this in-depth feature out of Yahoo Finance editor Dan Fitzpatrick. This look at the fallout from the VC side by Natasha Mascarenhas at Yahoo Finance sister publication TechCrunch is also super helpful.
Hence, this hot take from veteran strategist Jim Reid at Deutsche Bank shouldn’t knock you off the chair.
“Considering the client outflows are also likely driven by higher interest rates, it is not a stretch to
To win a RoSPA Health and Safety Award is by no means an easy feat. Last year alone, we received close to 2,000 entries from across the globe. To achieve one gold achievement award is a fantastic accolade for your organization… however, to continue that winning streak year after year is outstanding. In 2019, Nottingham based civil and electrical engineering firm J. McCann & Co. Ltd. did just that and achieved their fourth RoSPA Gold Achievement Award (and they couldn’t be more delighted).
An Achievement Award truly is the accolade that safety professionals across all industries aspire to. In our
Warren Buffett, who was recently named as the fourth wealthiest individual in the world, once said:
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”
This is good advice that can be applied to many aspects of life, but it’s especially true when it comes to health and safety.
When an accident occurs there are of course measurable outlays: damage to equipment, loss of revenue and sick days caused by injuries. There are also intangible costs such as damage to reputation and/or loss of trust
In 2018, RoSPA developed the RoSPA Awards Ambassador scheme, aiming to create a network of individuals who champion RoSPA’s objective to drive up health and safety standards via the RoSPA’s International Health and Safety Awards. With more than 27-years of experience in OS&H management, and over half of those spent working overseas, Stephen Storey, who is based in India, was well placed to be RoSPA’s first international awards ambassador. We catch up with him to see what this means for him.
Stephen Story has spent fifteen years working overseas in OS&H management in the Middle East and Asia. He is
Lackluster earnings and outlooks from Alphabet, Microsoft, and Spotify late Tuesday have solid clouds over an already nervous inventory market.
Alphabet and Microsoft each signaled a extra watchful eye on bills because the financial slowdown rages on. And Spotify — just like Alphabet — referred to as out economic-related weak point within the promoting market as one purpose for its tepid outcomes.
All three family identify tech shares plunged on the downbeat commentary. They have been additionally essentially the most visited ticker pages on Yahoo Finance as of Wednesday afternoon.
Core messaging in the course of the COVID -19 pandemic has centered on the function every citizen performs in bringing the scenario underneath management. Good hygiene and social distancing have been spoken about extensively and it’s acknowledged that the latter is the first threat management measure.
The function of key staff has additionally been extensively mentioned, resembling the worth of NHS employees and care staff, the function of educators and the speedy transition to house education. And as I sit right here at house serious about the 27million households within the UK on lockdown, and the impression on individuals and
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