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Culture
Arts, music, calendar, and daily culture across the Nordic countries.
By Nato Lagidze · Aug 8, 2026
Nordic countries have some of the highest rates of living alone in the world and also top the global happiness rankings…
- Aug 8, 2026 The worry that rigid schooling dampens creativity is more than a slogan By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 8, 2026 AI is not a magic bullet, and one of the most digitised regions in Europe shows why By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 8, 2026 Children everywhere love to draw, but Sweden built much of its preschool philosophy around that impulse, borrowing an… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 7, 2026 Scandinavian culture has an unspoken rule against acting like you're better than anyone else, and the psychological… By Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
- Aug 6, 2026 Norwegians have a word for treating time outdoors as something closer to a psychological requirement than a leisure… By Nato Lagidze
- Aug 6, 2026 In Skåne a boy is a påg and a frog is a pugga, and in Denmark seventy is spoken as 'half-fourth times twenty' By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 4, 2026 Study after study on loneliness after 60 points to the same finding By Kiran Journals
- Aug 4, 2026 A Norwegian study that measured agreement with the Law of Jante found the modesty code credited with holding… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 4, 2026 Researchers who asked baby boomers what frustrates them most about younger generations at work found the answer had… By Kiran Journals
- Aug 3, 2026 The idea that introverts are simply cleverer does not hold up, but a large study found something subtler By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 3, 2026 We treat the person who talks most in the room as the most capable, but research on the babble effect finds that… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 3, 2026 The Atacama Desert is so dry that parts receive less than two millimetres of rain a year, and its salty, oxidising… By Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
- Aug 2, 2026 When Denmark retired its old NemID login system in 2023, official figures showed only 31,000 people were still using… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 2, 2026 Aksel Sandemose's 1933 satire coined ten rules against pretending to be better than everyone else, and a 2018 Norwegian… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 1, 2026 People who hate small talk usually judge it as failed conversation, but the anthropologist who named it a century ago… By Lachlan Brown