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Evidence-minded writing on rest, health, and the Nordic approach to a good life.
- Aug 12, 2026 In Sweden the word lagom means roughly enough, and children absorb it so early that many Swedish adults describe… By The Balance
- Aug 12, 2026 A Finnish study followed 3,543 people into retirement and found life became easier, not dramatically happier, while… By Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
- Aug 12, 2026 Substack now has millions of active publications, and only about 100,000 of them earn any money at all By Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
- Aug 12, 2026 The parents who raised their children to be independent often discover in their seventies that independence was so… By The Balance
- Aug 12, 2026 Psychology says people who can't stop scrolling aren't chasing entertainment By The Balance
- Aug 12, 2026 Psychology suggests you can tell someone is truly confident if they let others be right about small things, because… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 12, 2026 The Swinging Sixties were real and also, to a striking degree, a magazine invention By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 12, 2026 A Nordic Council review found loneliness was relatively low overall but reached 31% among people over 80, showing why a… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 12, 2026 In 2012, David Raichlen put ten humans, eight dogs, and eight ferrets on treadmills and found that only the humans and… By The Balance
- Aug 12, 2026 The proof that a partner is a keeper is quieter than the romance-film version By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 11, 2026 The advice to stay single until someone is the real deal has more behind it than romance By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 11, 2026 The uncomfortable truth about being taken seriously is that people judge competence largely by surface cues By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 11, 2026 Two of the lessons men often learn too late are ones long-running research can state plainly By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 11, 2026 The Nordic instinct against flaunting wealth has research behind it By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 10, 2026 Seawater is only about 2.5 per cent denser than freshwater, yet ocean swimming feels like a different activity because… By Lachlan Brown
- Aug 10, 2026 The hardest part of turning forty isn't the age itself, it's realising that a lot of the anxiety of the previous decade… By The Balance