Showing posts with the label Sweden

The Stockholm Lights That Can Be Controlled By Anyone With A Phone

Mar 18, 2019

The 72-meter tall Phone Tower at the former headquarter of Ericsson at Telefonplan, in southern Stockholm, is a known landmark. It is the t...

The Building That Steals Your Body Heat

Mar 15, 2019

More than a quarter million commuters pass through the Stockholm Central Station everyday, unaware that their bodies are being tapped for e...

The Disgusting Food Museum

Oct 30, 2018

A new museum aimed to assault the olfactory senses of visitors and churn their stomach opened yesterday in Sweden’s third largest city, Mal...

The Stockholm Telephone Tower

Sep 30, 2017

By the late 19th century, the miracle device called the telephone had been invented but the simple concept of undergrounding telephone cable...

Ytterby: The Village That Chemists Love

Aug 25, 2017

What do the following ten chemical elements have in common? Yttrium Ytterbium Terbium Erbium Gadolinium Thulium Scandium Holmium D...

The Backstugas of Sweden

Aug 15, 2017

In a forest in southern Småland, in southern Sweden, there is a small earthen cabin you can rent on Airbnb. The cabin is partially buried in...

The Museum of Failure

Apr 25, 2017

Every successful product launch is usually preceded by a string of failures, but we only remember the winners and ignore the failures and pr...

The Wreck of Swedish Warship Mars

Apr 12, 2017

About 18 km off the coast the Swedish island of Öland, in the Baltic Sea, at a depth of about 75 meters, lies one of the most beautiful ship...

The Mysterious Gotland Grooves

Feb 23, 2017

Scattered throughout the island of Gotland, in the middle of the Baltic Sea, are thousands of stones with strange grooves or furrows cut int...

The Sundial Cannon of Ã…tvidaberg

Feb 7, 2017

In the not-too-distant past, before the invention of modern timekeeping devices, noontime —the moment when the sun is at the highest positio...