The brief
Culture
Arts, music, calendar, and daily culture across the Nordic countries.
- Aug 13, 2026 Less than 1 per cent of Swedish municipal waste reaches a landfill, but the country still imported 3.86 million tonnes… By Mal James
- Aug 12, 2026 "Dancing Queen" was performed in public for the first time at a gala for the King of Sweden's wedding in 1976, two… By Brendan Brown
- Aug 12, 2026 ABBA turned down a billion dollars to reunite in 2000, one of the largest offers ever made to a band, and Björn later… By Brendan Brown
- Aug 8, 2026 Nordic countries have some of the highest rates of living alone in the world and also top the global happiness rankings… By Nato Lagidze
- 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 Nato Lagidze
- 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