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Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
Editorial Team at Scandinavia Standard
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- Writing since 2026
The Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team produces content about Scandinavian culture, design, fashion, food, travel, and the people shaping them. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, research, drafting, fact-checking, editing, and review, rather than a single writer's work. Scandinavia Standard takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.
Signature pieces
- + Travel Iceland's Blue Lagoon is the runoff pond of the Svartsengi geothermal plant, which began dumping hot brine on a lava… Aug 29, 2026
- + Uncategorized The last ice sheet left the coast of northern Sweden about 9,600 years ago and the land has climbed 285 metres since… Aug 26, 2026
- + Culture In 1994, Friends had already been called Insomnia Cafe, then Six of One, tested weak with NBC's own preview audiences… Aug 23, 2026
All stories
- Aug 22, 2026 HBO's original 2009 pilot for Game of Thrones was considered such a disaster that the network reshot almost the entire… + Culture
- Aug 22, 2026 Denmark generated roughly 60% of its electricity from wind in 2025 + Business
- Aug 21, 2026 Copenhagen’s 1947 Finger Plan placed new suburbs like beads along five railway corridors and protected the land between… + Architecture
- Aug 19, 2026 Steven Spielberg's mechanical shark broke down so often during filming in 1974 that he was forced to hide it from the… + Culture
- Aug 19, 2026 Norwegians can look up their neighbours' taxable income, and an economist studying the years after those records went… + Culture
- Aug 19, 2026 Every Christmas Eve, roughly a third of Sweden watches the same 1958 Disney special + Culture
- Aug 18, 2026 Research on 20,000 people found birth order doesn't shape your personality + Psychology
- Aug 18, 2026 People who prefer solitude in their fifties and sixties often aren't withdrawing from life + Lifestyle
- Aug 18, 2026 Fifty-three years of Swedish data show that contact with friends drops sharply in later life for every generation… + Lifestyle