Tag: Denmark
How to deal with holiday stress, Danish-style
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Dickinson College
The holidays often involve jubilant gift exchanges, renewed connections with family and friends, and treasured...
How treaties protecting fossil fuel investors could jeopardize global efforts to...
Rachel Thrasher, Boston University; Blake Alexander Simmons, Colorado State University, and Kyla Tienhaara, Queen's University, Ontario
Fossil fuel companies...
As the pandemic rages, the US could use a little bit...
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Dickinson College
In recent years, the English-speaking world has found two Danish concepts, “pyt” and “hygge,” useful for dealing with anxiety and stress.
Now...
Solar farms, power stations and water treatment plants can be attractions...
Margaret Birney Vickery, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amid the economic and social fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, many people see the process of restarting society...
Refugees tell stories of problems – and unity – in facing...
Karen Jacobsen, Tufts University and Charles Simpson, Tufts University
Across the globe, refugees are trying to settle into new surroundings and are running into new...
A Danish word the world needs to combat stress: Pyt
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Dickinson College
Danes are some of the happiest people in the world, and they also happen to have a lot of cool words...
Why Denmark dominates the World Happiness Report rankings year after year
Marie Helweg-Larsen, Dickinson College
The new World Happiness Report again ranks Denmark among the top three happiest of 155 countries surveyed – a distinction that...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
