Original investigations, profile features, and longer essays from the Scandinavia Standard editorial team. Pieces published here go through additional research and review.
Quick test. Picture yourself at three o'clock on a Sunday afternoon, home, nowhere to be, nobody watching.
Here's a research finding that sounds backwards until it suddenly doesn't.
In 1933, the Danish-Norwegian writer Aksel Sandemose published a satirical novel called En flyktning krysser sitt spor, set in a fictional small town called Jante.
Being broadly likeable and being deeply known rely on different social processes. Research on self-monitoring, disclosure and responsiveness helps explain the gap.
There is a particular kind of compliment that can begin to feel lonely. “You are so easy to talk to,” someone says after telling…
Radiocarbon dating of eye-lens tissue has revealed that Greenland sharks can live close to 400 years — and that most of them spend those centuries with a parasitic copepod eating their corneas.
Composure at a dinner party is not emotional maturity. The real test is how someone behaves when they are tired, hungry, and mildly disappointed — and the research on regulation, stress response, and everyday behaviour helps explain why.
Microsoft's anechoic chamber in Redmond reaches minus 20.3 decibels — quiet enough that visitors begin to hear their own heartbeat, blood flow, and joints, and most cannot stay longer than 45 minutes.
There is a recognisable moment when the sea first enters the field of view. The journey may not be over and the waves may still be too far away to hear, yet something in the body seems to loosen.
