Original investigations, profile features, and longer essays from the Scandinavia Standard editorial team. Pieces published here go through additional research and review.
There’s a particular text message I know very well. It’s the one that starts with “Sorry to bother you, but…” and ends with someone needing something.
The tiredness at the end of a long day often gets blamed on screens or workload. Psychological research points to a quieter cause: the constant work of producing warmth, patience, and composure that does not match what a person actually feels.
In parts of northern Chile's Atacama Desert, weather stations have logged no measurable rainfall since they were installed. The soil there is chemically closer to Martian regolith than to anything else on Earth — and space agencies use it to rehearse for Mars.
In the 1930s, in a small Austrian town where the only factory had closed, researchers noticed something strange about how the unemployed men crossed the main square.
Here's the first thing to know about people who genuinely don't care what others think: they never announce it.
Think of the person whose name comes up when anyone asks, who would you call if things fell apart?
Most of us walk around with a fairly confident theory of our own happiness. If I get the job, the house, the relationship, the money, then I will be happier, and I will stay that way.
The party ended an hour ago, and the most charming person there is driving home, watching the game tape.
Some people's lives arrive pre-filled, like a form where every box already has an answer in it.
