Snædís Björnsdóttir and Ingvild Reed tell us about the Scandinavian tradition of Saint Lucy’s Day and teach us how to make Lucy’s cats.
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Female empowerment has been on the rise since women fought for the right to vote, but in the past decade, it has gained momentum like never before. Mahdya Malik looks at the current women of the world who hold great power.
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Birta Björnsdóttir Kjerúlf has a simplified explanation of the Parliament elections.
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Is increasing economic inequality is an inevitable outcome of civilization and technological progress or is it possible to contain it by simmering down the economic growth without hindering technological development? Maicol Cipriani takes a look.
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Rohit Goswami tells us the complications that can occur when elections are analyzed with graphs and data driven electoral trends.
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Living in student housing can be fun. However, it can sometimes be scary as well. Tess shares some incidents of that.
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The Financial and Economic Affairs Committee of the University of Iceland have some saving tips for students.
Read MoreMaicol Cipriani with a piece about the physics behind falling autumn leaves.
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Here we have a DIY project that combines reusing and creating. This is a fun and environmentally friendly way to create something new and is also a great craft to do with kids. It’s also a eco-friendlier recipe for papier-mâché pulp, made with flour instead of wallpaper glue.
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Welcome to the One Week, Seven Documentaries Challenge! How does it work, you ask? It’s easy: you just have to pick one week in your busy student life during which you will watch an environment-related documentary each day of the week.
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In most people’s kitchens, a lot of perfectly edible food ends up in the trash. I’ve recently discovered banana peels.
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Becoming a volunteer is a great opportunity to give back to the community, create a vision based on intercultural understanding and exchange, and have fun while doing it. We spoke with Hella Wagner and Michał Grabowski SEEDS volunteers for the year 2020-2021.
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The more time that passes without serious climate action, the more problems associated with the climate crisis grow and magnify. These problems call for more projects, which an ever increasing number of people and businesses must attend to. There’s been a lot of job creation in this arena, with companies founded to take advantage of certain opportunities in the market. Those jobs that seek to preserve or restore the environment are usually called green jobs.
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While we hope that this year is better than last year, these memes are no doubt fresh, as was clearly evidenced by the meme competition hosted by your favorite student publication and judged by comedy group VHS. You sent in your memes, VHS saw them, and they determined which ones were the best.
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Together, Alfa Björnsdóttir and Atli Þór Fanndal make up the team behind Space Iceland, an organization dedicated to space science and technology in Iceland. We sat down with them to discuss the space industry.
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We’ve put together a very important list for you. A list of songs that make you want to stamp your feet, swing your hips and bounce your head like you’re cycling over bumps in the road. Songs that you just have to dance to.
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2020 has been hard for all of us – there’s no doubt about that. After seeing all the 2020 memes on social media, it’s quite hard to believe that anyone might even dare to say they had a great year. Well, I’ll tell you a bit about my ups and downs over the last year and how I came to be an international student at the University of Iceland in the summer of 2020.
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Falling in love is a neurochemical process in which a hormonal chain reaction can make even a total stranger look perfect to you. Dopamine, noradrenaline, and endorphins make a person in love feel euphoric, which can be seen on brain scans. We may be oblivious, but our bodies’ chemical neurotransmitters are working on finding us partners.
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If you think about your future, love will play an important role. According to BBC reports, cultural estimates suggest that 83% of societies globally allow polygamy. Around the globe, there is a growing community of openly polyamorous (“poly”) people. In Iceland as well as many other countries, people who reject the idea of love and affection being finite and exclusive are coming together and forming communities.
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Creativity and the ability to thrive despite internal and external challenges are qualities embedded in the majority of us inhabiting this island. The very enthusiastic Magdalena Falter and Svava Björk Ólafsdóttir from Hacking Hekla have been hacking the Icelandic countryside in search of innovation and sustainable development.
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