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Aug 19 Self-respect and self-esteem are not the same thing Lachlan Brown
Aug 19 IKEA's product names are not random whimsy Mal James
Aug 18 Researchers followed 260 Finnish children for eight years, tracking their screen use from childhood into adolescence Lachlan Brown
Aug 18 For some highly intelligent people, loneliness may have less to do with being alone than with feeling intellectually… Lachlan Brown
Aug 18 The oldest question-asking method in philosophy is still the fastest way I've found to catch myself lying to myself Nato Lagidze
Aug 18 Researchers who study ageing keep returning to one uncomfortable truth The Balance
Aug 18 Psychology has a name for the person who makes everyone laugh while quietly falling apart Daniel Moran
Aug 18 Research on 20,000 people found birth order doesn't shape your personality Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
Aug 18 People who prefer solitude in their fifties and sixties often aren't withdrawing from life Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
Aug 18 Trace every fjord and island along Norway’s coast and you get roughly 100,915 kilometres of shoreline Scandinavia Standard
Aug 18 People in their 40s often describe a strange relief at no longer being the most interesting person in the room, because… The Balance
Aug 18 Finland has been ranked the world's happiest country for nine years in a row, and one of the strongest clues to why… The Balance
Aug 18 Fifty-three years of Swedish data show that contact with friends drops sharply in later life for every generation… Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
Aug 17 Japan’s longevity research keeps returning to a word with no perfect English translation Daniel Moran
Aug 17 The Scandinavian idea that children should be a little bored on purpose isn't neglect dressed up as philosophy, it's an… The Balance
Aug 17 The instinct to use time wisely often gets mistranslated into doing more, faster, but the research on time and… Scandinavia Standard
Aug 17 Psychology says the sixty-eight-year-old who insists she feels fifty-two isn't in denial Scandinavia Standard Editorial Team
Aug 17 The difference between a seasoned traveller and a stressed one often comes down to a few small, unglamorous items in… Scandinavia Standard
Aug 17 The traits men suppress as weakness, emotional openness and vulnerability, are the very ones most people find appealing Scandinavia Standard
Aug 17 Breaking the habit of tension is rarely a matter of relaxing harder Scandinavia Standard