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Light some candles, spend time in nature and have a coffee break. Here's what the Nordic countries can teach us about finding joy when it's cold out.
Finland—despite being culturally distinct from the Scandinavian countries—has a similar concept called sisu, which has been described as the Finns' national character. Sisu is considered more "raw" than hygge, being an assemblage of feelings or concepts such as bravery, grit, perseverance in the face of adversity, tenacity, and so on.
A nurse who moved from sunny Spain to Norway has gone viral for sharing tips and tricks on how she stays warm in the freezing cold. In Norway, the average winter temperature is -6.8° C (19° F ...
The Brooklyn Museum's 1954 "Design in Scandinavia" exhibition launched "Scandinavian Modern" furniture on the American market. [1]Scandinavian design is a design movement characterized by simplicity, minimalism and functionality that emerged in the early 20th century, and subsequently flourished in the 1950s throughout the five Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Iceland.
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (Danish: Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne), published in America as Smilla's Sense of Snow, is a 1992 novel by Danish author Peter Høeg tracing the investigation into the suspicious death of a Greenlandic boy in Denmark.
Researchers suspect volcanic eruptions in Central and South America may have led to cold summers in Norway between 1877 and 1902, forming peculiar blue rings in Scandinavian trees and shrubs.
Nordic folklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands.It has common roots with, and has been under mutual influence with, folklore in England, Germany, the Low Countries, the Baltic countries, Finland and Sápmi.
We Feel Fine is an interactive website, artwork, and book created by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar that searches the internet every 10 minutes for expressions of human emotion on blogs and then displays the results in several visually-rich dynamic representations. [1] [2] Created in 2005 and launched in 2006, We Feel Fine was turned into a ...