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DNA found in chewing gum from 10,000 years ago is helping scientists learn about prehistoric humans.
Canadians are up in arms about Statistics Canada’s push for their financial data. They shouldn’t be.
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Statistics Canada has been tone-deaf in its push for the financial data of Canadians from banks, but that data is essential to forming good public policy.
Some countries seem to provide more equitable opportunities in schools and society in general. Others have work to do if they want to advance the adage that hard work and education afford success regardless of one’s existing social status.
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Conventional wisdom across much of the Western world says there’s a strong link between education and upward social mobility. Really?
A pop-up newsroom debunking facts and proposing real time fact-checking can change how media publish stories during specific events such as elections.
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Monitoring the spread of mis-information and dis-information during the Swedish national elections by a group of scholars and journalist could set a precedent elsewhere.
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All households have received a leaflet advising them to prepare for crisis or war. But it’s not really clear why.
A reconstructed Viking ship.
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The Vikings have become synonymous with voyages and violence, but a new exhibition at the Melbourne Museum demonstrates their domestic and spiritual side.
A Muslim woman wearing a hijab headscarf stands side by side with a punk woman with a green mohawk at a rally in support of Syrian refugees in Oslo, Norway, in 2015.
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As immigration novices, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have actively been searching for inspiration and new solutions abroad. Canada is providing some critical inspiration.
Velkommen til Norge.
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Donald Trump wants the US to take more immigrants from ‘countries like Norway’. But how do ‘countries like Norway’ treat their own immigrants?
Skeletal fragments from Hummervikholmen, one of sites featured in this study.
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Scandinavia was populated by two main migrations, making its first inhabitants more genetically diverse and adapted to harsh climates than those in the rest of Europe.
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Jo Nesbø’s bleak thriller featuring troubled hero Harry Hole, rings the changes in a genre recently dominated by female protagonists.
Recognisable to all.
The company has made the world flat (packed).
Down the steps of Finland’s famous Bengtskaer lighthouse.
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This problem masks a greater threat to the welfare state than it first appears.
Late Viking Age Swedish rune-stone commemorating a man called Víkingr.
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What the Old Norse for Viking can tell us about the Scandinavian explorers.
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Trump would not have had a great time navigating the political intrigue presented in the Icelandic Sagas.
Icelandic crime.
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What one isolated case tells us about crime and community on this special island.
‘My fellow disenfranchised Americans …’
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New measure of 32 countries’ economic balance places UK and US near bottom of the pile.
The story of Snow White story embodies the kinds of gender biases children are exposed to.
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Scandinavia’s innovative education models present a more diverse and realistic image of the world we live in, and steer clear of gender stereotypes.
Cosy Copenhagen.
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We all deserve a bit of ‘hygge’ in our lives. Here’s what it’s all about.
New arrivals will be searched and told to give up items of value.
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For many, it evokes memories of the Holocaust. So how can the government justify it?
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People crossing the famous bridge from Denmark can expect to have their papers checked in a landmark change to border policy.