a serious accident at a nuclear power plant in Finland or in nearby areas an accident in the transport of radioactive material the use of a nuclear weapon in Finland or nearby areas. The release of radioactive material into the environment depends on what has happened and the weather in the...
aThe Big Mac index suggests that currencies are particularly overvalued in Norway, Switzerland and Brazil (see chart). The continuing strength of the real is a big source of irritation to Brazil’s finance minister, Guido Mantega, who first trumpeted the phrase “currency wars” in 2010. Brazil...
Several major Israeli wars have been launched against Gaza since the start of the blockade in 2007. The first was in December 2008. Each war has left behind thousands of dead and wounded Palestinains, and physiological scares that couldn’t be easily healed. Also unexploded ordina...
During my three trips to Finland since August 2023, I have been documenting the way the country and its people remember the trauma of these wars, taking photographs of its war memorials and markers for the dead. Nothing has shaped modern Finnish identity more than these conflicts that took 95...
Wales has been dominated by England longer than the other parts. However, it retains a powerful sense of its difference from England. Its own language, Welsh,is spoken by about 20% of the population, much more than those who speak Gaelic in Scotland and Ireland. 威尔士非常靠近英格兰中部人口...
Hope and love are popular themes of literature and art in many human societies. The human physiology of love and hope is less well understood. This review presents evidence that the lack of love and/or hope delays growth disturbs development and maturati
The remaining Kingdom of Denmark–Norway endured a collection of wars within the 17th century that resulted in further territorial cessions. A surge of nationalist movements within the nineteenth century had been defeated within the First Schleswig War of 1848. The adoption of the Constitution of De...
His training missions included one near the Arctic Circle in northern Norway. In 2003 he was deployed to Italy for nine months, providing support for the war in Afghanistan. “[Our] responsibility was to provide support at these bases...
For the previous six months, the sun has appeared to migrate on a northerly course in the sky. At the moment of the solstice, that motion stops and then the sun will begin to move south. A motion that will continue for six months until the sun drops to its lowest point below the equ...
Facing Deathis not light reading. In fact it is sobering and poignant with the last words written by 414 service men who died while on their Special Attack (i.e.,kamikaze) missions. It has often been said, too often observed, that governments ignite wars but regular folk and their familie...