Balance
Wellbeing
Evidence-minded writing on rest, health, and the Nordic approach to a good life.
- Aug 23, 2026 Video calls and shared calendars have stripped the glamour from arriving late, but the idea that fashionable lateness… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 23, 2026 People who write more fluently than they speak tend to share a few genuine qualities, from reflective thinking to a… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 23, 2026 Children are not born fair and they do not become so through silence By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 22, 2026 People who stay genuinely fit as they age are not always chasing youth By Daniel Moran
- Aug 22, 2026 Copenhagen was ranked the world's happiest city in the 2026 Happy City Index, with six Nordic cities filling the top ten By The Balance
- Aug 21, 2026 The adults most likely to report loneliness are often not the elderly living alone, but people in their twenties and… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 21, 2026 Psychology says people who eat the same breakfast every morning aren't uninterested in food, mornings alone need a… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 21, 2026 Psychology says people who keep the television on in an empty house aren't lonely in the way anyone means it, they just… By Daniel Moran
- Aug 21, 2026 A Finnish study of 2,264 adults found that heavier coffee drinkers had less visceral fat and more skeletal muscle… By The Balance
- Aug 20, 2026 The people others love to be around are rarely the most impressive in the room, and the research explains why By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 20, 2026 There is no study on drivers waving thanks at a crossing and no single trait it proves, but the gesture is a tiny act… By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 19, 2026 Robin Williams was described by people close to him as deeply still and often melancholy in private By Daniel Moran
- Aug 19, 2026 Researchers tracked 28,000 adults across 166 countries from 2019 to 2024 and found global emotional intelligence scores… By The Balance
- Aug 19, 2026 The idea that some people drain your energy sounds like new-age talk, but there is a real mechanism behind it By Scandinavia Standard
- Aug 19, 2026 Dating profiles are built to list strengths By Nato Lagidze
- Aug 19, 2026 The need for regular time alone is often mistaken for shyness or antisocial coldness, but the research suggests it is… By Scandinavia Standard