Finland wants to build a bridge across the Baltic Sea to Sweden for better connections to Europe ~transport Article 993 words 19 votes
US Department of Justice again files demand to break up Google’s search monopoly ~tech google Article 963 words 27 votes
Secret Ink - South Korea's underground tattoo scene: The women defying the law | BBC 100 Women ~life.women Video 25:50, published Feb 4 2025 14 votes
Utah becomes first US state to pass bill making app stores verify ages - Governor has not yet signed the bill ~tech Article 732 words 18 votes
California Governor Gavin Newsom "completely aligns" with Charlie Kirk on trans athlete issue, and agreed about restricting gender affirming care for prisoners and youths, in podcast ~lgbt transgender Article 792 words 39 votes
Fearing toxic waste, Greenland ended uranium mining. Now, they could be forced to restart - or pay $11billion investor-state dispute settlement. ~enviro pollution Article 2259 words 23 votes
Beijing's deflation dilemma: Falling prices signal bigger troubles ahead for China's economy ~finance economics Article 1170 words 27 votes
How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy ~humanities.history Article 10 votes
US tariff war risks sinking world into new Great Depression, International Chamber of Commerce warns ~finance economics Article 155 words 57 votes
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is disappearing in Hollywood. Was it ever really here? ~movies Article 1723 words 9 votes
For decades, the Swiss city of Basel has been transforming its skyline, and now boasts some of the greenest rooftops in Europe ~enviro Article 1132 words 21 votes
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: Texas measles outbreak is call to action for all of us. MMR vaccine is crucial to avoiding potentially deadly disease. ~health medicine Article 797 words 34 votes
The Japanese mayor who built a floodgate no one wanted — and saved his town from a massive tsunami after his death ~enviro Article 861 words 41 votes
Cousin marriage: What new evidence tells us about children's risk for ill health and how governments are responding ~life relationships family Article 2872 words, published Feb 27 2025 23 votes
Of trains and tanks. Or does the German political class actually know how bad things are? ~transport Article 1537 words 21 votes
Billed as promoting European products rather than boycotting US ones, Danish supermarket chain Salling Group has a special label for goods from Europe during March ~finance business Article 415 words 24 votes
The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson ~humanities.history Article 1156 words, published Oct 9 2023 6 votes
Meredith Whittaker said Signal intends to exit Sweden should its government amend existing legislation essentially mandating the end of end-to-end encryption ~tech privacy Article 550 words 26 votes
Planned foreign-owned data centres in Finland will bring minimal economic benefit, according to Jukka Manner, professor of networking technology at Aalto University ~tech google Article 434 words 4 votes
Canada-US cross-border surveillance negotiations raise constitutional and human rights whirlwind under US CLOUD Act ~tech privacy Article 2716 words 16 votes
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek on 'soft' fascism, AI and the effects of shamelessness in public life ~humanities philosophy Video 23:55, published Nov 26 2024 16 votes
How World War II was 'practiced' in Spain (1936-1939) ~humanities.history Video 24:53, published Dec 12 2024 7 votes
American demand for weight-loss drugs is supercharging Denmark's economy and transforming a small Danish community into an unlikely boomtown ~finance business Article 1740 words, published Feb 20 2025 20 votes
Apple stops offering end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage in the UK due to government spying demands ~tech privacy security apple Article 320 words 64 votes
Has Iceland found the antidote to toxic ‘girlboss’ feminism – concept of ‘konur eru konum bestar’ is everywhere, including the female-led coalition government ~life.women Article 2223 words, published Jan 16 2025 16 votes
Sweden's Supreme Court rules that climate activist Greta Thunberg's legal challenge against the state for insufficient climate action is inadmissible ~enviro climate change Article 489 words 14 votes
Under Donald Trump, US government scientists told they need clearance to meet with Canadian counterparts ~science Article 1240 words 23 votes
As global leaders, Canada and Norway's co-operation is timely in the face of surging energy demand ~enviro energy.renewable sustainability Article 988 words, published Feb 11 2025 8 votes
Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere ~lgbt transgender Article 845 words 19 votes
In the past days, several projects advocating tolerance and equal rights on Codeberg have been subject to hate attacks, such as massive spam of abusive messages in their issue trackers ~comp Article 1219 words, published Feb 11 2025 34 votes
National Stonewall Monument has had all references to trans people erased ~lgbt transgender history Article 704 words 54 votes
Norway to open protected rivers to hydropower plants – Green politicians describe plan as ‘a historic attack on Norwegian nature’ ~enviro water energy.renewable conservation Article 649 words 8 votes
Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' for US users ~tech internet google.maps Article 200 words 25 votes
Reindeer movements are causing conflict in the Umeå region ahead of this week's Rally Sweden round of the World Rally Championship ~sports.motorsports Article 1379 words 3 votes
UK orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts ~tech apple privacy security.cyber Article 1416 words 49 votes
Baltic states leave Russian power grid in closer EU integration ~enviro energy Article 551 words 29 votes
Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan offers bleak assessment of year ahead for motor industry – shares his views on tariffs and the development of electric vehicle sales ~transport Article 671 words 7 votes
US documents say Project 2025’s creators The Heritage Foundation want to dox Wikipedia’s volunteer editors of pages related to Palestine conflict using powerful tools ~tech internet Article 1180 words 33 votes
In the US, multi-level barrage of book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America ~books Article 857 words 15 votes