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• Aug 4, 2026 A programme built in Bergen after three Norwegian teenagers died by suicide in 1982 cut bullying by roughly half among… + Lifestyle
• Aug 4, 2026 A 1969 study found that explicitly telling people they could draw outside the nine-dot puzzle's boundary barely… + Lifestyle
• Aug 4, 2026 A Danish trial gave 290 first-time-parent couples a structured emotional-intelligence-style relationship course… + Lifestyle
• Aug 3, 2026 A 2009 study of more than 2,000 people found self-compassion predicted steadier self-worth through failure than… + Lifestyle
• Aug 2, 2026 A nine-study 2004 paper developed an entitlement scale + Lifestyle
• Aug 2, 2026 When Denmark retired its old NemID login system in 2023, official figures showed only 31,000 people were still using… + Culture
• Aug 2, 2026 Iceland shortened the working week without reducing pay, while Gothenburg’s six-hour care trial cost about 12 million… + Business
• Aug 2, 2026 Aksel Sandemose's 1933 satire coined ten rules against pretending to be better than everyone else, and a 2018 Norwegian… + Culture
• Aug 1, 2026 A 2025 Swedish cohort study of 2,722 young adults found perceived friend support predicted lower anxiety specifically… + Lifestyle
• Aug 1, 2026 A 2022 Finnish study validating the Sisu Scale found that pushing through discomfort splits into two separate traits… + Lifestyle
• Aug 1, 2026 A 2005 study of 49 cultures in the journal Science found perceptions of national character rarely match measured… + Lifestyle
• Aug 1, 2026 A 2019 randomized trial of 33 sedentary older adults found eight weeks of Nordic walking with poles improved balance… + Lifestyle