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26 Feb 2019, 4:34 pm
“Iceland, Japan, Switzerland round out top five; U.S. is 35th – Health index looks at life expectancy, environmental factors…The index grades nations based on variables including life expectancy while imposing penalties on risks such as tobacco use and obesity. [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 7:11 am
As noted within the recent European Patent Office (EPO) press release (link below), "The European Patent Organisation's members now include all 27 EU member states plus Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 11:48 am
A reader sends along what he calls the ultimate ethnic joke: An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Latvian, a Turk, a German, an Indian, several Americans (including a Hawaiian and an Alaskan), an Argentinean, a Dane, an Australian, a Slovak, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Moroccan, a Frenchman, a New Zealander, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Guatemalan, a Colombian, a Pakistani, a Malaysian, a Croatian, a Uzbek, a Cypriot, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Chinese, a Sri Lankan, a Lebanese, a Cayman… [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 6:08 am
Earlier this year, Germany joined the ranks of countries such as Norway, France, Italy, Belgium, and Iceland by enacting a quota to increase the number of women in its corporate boardrooms. [read post]
16 Nov 2022, 9:03 pm
Participating countries were Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Sweden. [read post]
16 Jul 2019, 9:05 pm
Skyr is an Icelandic cultured dairy product eaten like yogurt. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 5:31 pm
Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of Iceland’s parliament. [read post]
2 Aug 2012, 11:12 am
(In Season 2, Episode 3, we learned that Flonkerton is (obviously) the Icelandic term for “Box of Paper Snowshoe Racing,” the national sport of “Icelandic paper companies. [read post]
22 Jul 2014, 7:51 am
In 1984, on the Haffjardara River in Iceland, Ralph Duggins cast a line against 30-mile-per-hour gusts, working to catch an Atlantic salmon. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 7:08 am
I just discovered that the entire saga is available online here as part of the Icelandic Saga Database. [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 10:15 am
Press, Forthcoming 2021) [preprint]"Racism and the Politics of Fear at the US-Mexico Border," E-International Relations, 8 July 2020 [full-text]"The Thirteenth Amendment and Human Trafficking: Lessons & Limitations," Georgia State University Law Review, vol. 36, no. 4 (2020) [full-text]"The Word I Hate: Racism, Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Iceland," Icelandic Review of Politics and Administration, vol. 16, no. 1 (2020) [open… [read post]
19 May 2014, 2:25 am
We are glad to announce having two esteemed keynote speakers: Cory Doctorow, a London-based journalist and science fiction author, winner of the Prometheus and Campbell Awards, co-editor of Boing Boing and author of Little Brother and Birgitta Jónsdóttir, an Icelandic poet and member of the Icelandic parliament, internet activist, freedom of information and freedom of speech defender.The programme is of the multi-track variety, details of which you can find here. [read post]
11 Nov 2015, 4:27 pm
Put in modern terms, they were declaring Iceland two countries located on the same territory, each viewing the other as foreigners.The Titanium Tyrant is out of law with the rest of us, loyal to his own people. [read post]
8 Mar 2008, 12:40 am
So maybe you shouldn't travel there, but you can watch the documentary "Heima" ("Homeland") with the music of Sigur Rós â€â [read post]
24 Apr 2013, 4:15 am
The others are Belgium, Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. [read post]
4 Apr 2016, 11:10 am
Among the stories are pieces on Vladimir Putin’s $1 billion in offshore holdings; the Prime Minister of Iceland’s shady dealings with a private company, which served as a tax haven for his private wealth; and FIFA, international soccer’s governing body, whose members also appear in the documents. [read post]
15 Mar 2018, 7:56 am
Denmark was third, followed by Iceland and Switzerland....What kind of white supremacist propaganda is this?! [read post]
7 Jun 2019, 7:39 am
., Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and Turkey are members of GEOTHERMICA. [read post]
16 Oct 2015, 12:04 pm
Råsberg graduated from Reykjavík University in Iceland (Háskólinn í Reykjavík) and earned his Masters in Law from the University of Bergen. [read post]
18 Nov 2013, 8:15 am
This is what an Icelandic poet told me....Full text at the link, but it's better in video form (if you can handle all those tiny little dots): [read post]
