This blew me away at first, but then it does make some sense. What do you think?
According to Swedish car safety specialist Claes Tingvall, GM has wrapped up a multi-year project which used dead human bodies instead of crash dummies. Specifically, the tests were made with Saab automobiles.
I grew up by the sea – always had an affinity with the waves, the tides, that sense of looking out to the great beyond, wondering what lay there.
But as one grows older, the great beyond takes on connotations other than distant lands lying beyond a Devonian horizon.
We can’t help but begin contemplating what will happen once we’ve died.
But I know what’ll happen to me – all thanks to this Swedish company.
I’m being thrown to sea in something that looks remarkably like a UFO.
Nicole Kidman left a swimsuit beside a Swedish swimming pool some time back, and people wondered what to do with it.
A Swedish charitable group auctioned it off, using the money to purchase cows for poor families in India, according to The Local.
The Swedes are an inventive lot, but this article in The Local really takes the cake, or milk, if you will.
They milk 1000 cows at Wapnö castle outside Halmstad, Sweden, and during the process of cooling the milk from 37 to 3 degrees C, they have devised a way to capture that heat and use it to warm up the castle and workshop buildings.
You’d think in January, Sweden would be cold, blanketed with snow and ice, but not this year.
According to The Local, a hobby gardener in southern Sweden has already harvested the first potatoes of the New Year, with a garnish of strawberries and daisies.
An unusually mild winter in the land of my ancestors has fooled nature into believing spring has arrived. The so-called “killer slug”, a 10-15 cm beast is beginning to eat its way through the new flora, and ticks are ready for suck some blood from anything that bleeds. Even mushrooms have been spotted in a province south of Stockholm.
Read on, one Swedish gardener has a solution for the killer slugs in his […]
It was only last year that I began to fully appreciate the concept of incidental heat gains within buildings - heat gained indirectly via a window facing the sun, the heat generated from electrical appliances and rather surprisingly, the heat generated from our own bodies.
I thought the latter would be insignificant. Not a bit of it.
In fact, whilst sitting down, we provide the same amount of heat as a 60 watt light bulb. This can increase to 250 watts depending on the type of exercise we are doing.
In an article that ran earlier this month, I learned the Swedish government has announced that Sweden is beating emissions targets as laid out by the Kyoto Protocol.
“Sweden was allowed to increase its emissions by more than four percent.
[But] emissions have decreased by nearly nine percent so [overall] that means Sweden has reduced its emissions by 12.7 percent, more than agreed under the Kyoto Protocol,” said the political advisor Hannes Borg.
Visitors to Stockholm could soon have a new option for cheap airport accommodation – a Boeing 747 at Arlanda airport.
Uppsala businessman Oscar Diös has been given permission by airport owner LFV and the Swedish National Roads Administration to open a youth hostel in a Jumbo Jet parked by the airport entrance.
Read all about it at The Local
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