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99% invisible : Roman Mars takes listener and staff questions for a fifteenth anniversary special  fire and ice : immigration raids in the U...

Via Kottke and though sadly the crisps that appear in the spot are not an actual product, we applaud alternative energy giant Vattenfa...

Via Strange Compan y, we are serendipitously directed to an academic update in partnership with the University of Gothenburg with its ...

somewhere beyond the barricade, is there a world you long to see : Reuters’ delivers a deadpan juxtaposition of Trump’s attendance at a show...

Achieving their fourth number one single on US charts on this day in 1991, the song penned by Per Håkon Gissele, one half of the Swedish ro...

Photographed on this day on 1985 in Växjö by journalist Hans Runesson features the subject of Danuta Danielsson protesting against a Neo-Naz...

Via Marco McClean’s Memo of the Air , we quite enjoyed seeing this impressive performance from Swedish folktronica band Wintergatan (the ...

concrete feats : the landmark Våga Water Tower on coast Varberg, Sweden   ſpy v ſpy : a look at the world of espionage in the Middle Ages—v...

Considered not only as one of the director’s best works but also counted among the greatest films of all time, Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Stra...

boughs of holly : a gallery of Edwardians dressed up as Christmas trees—via the Everlasting Blört   gifcities : the Internet Archive’s ga...

Polls open now through 28.November, the OED presents its shortlist of nominees for the Word of the Year for 2024, with only one actual n...

Already a somewhat notorious and reviled Swedish-style liqueur called bäsk, bitter and flavoured with wormwood and anise—Sweden being on...

Via Super Punch we learn—and on par with the Finnish practise of awarding a hat and a sword—that Sweden carries on with the unique and o...

Prior to the publication, on this day in 1753, of the work by Carl Linnaeus ( see also ), listing every known species of plant at the time (...

With the finale held on this day fifty years ago, held in the arts venue the Dome of Brighton with veteran television personality and pre...

Via Messy Nessy Chic , we are reminded ( see previously ) of the Swedish and Finnish legend of the Easter witches who fly off to Blockul...

Via the New Shelton wet/dry , we are directed towards an interesting academic speculation from amateur historian Felice Vinci who transp...

Coincidentally sharing some of the same lyrics (Mamma mia, let me go!), on this day in 1976 ABBA unseated Queen’s “ Bohemian Rhapsody ” fro...

We appreciated the introduction to the portfolio of Swedish artist Iris Wildros through these mediative, contemplative frame-by-frame ...

Released on this day in 1979 as the lead single from their sixth studio album, Voulez-Vous , this song about a “little girl” was informed by...