Sweden


World’s Oldest Tree (8,000 Years Young) Found in Sweden

Like what you see? Subscribe to the full RSS feed.Scientists have identified a cluster of spruce trees in the Dalarna Province of Sweden as being the oldest in the world. The Norway spruce trees were found in a mountainous region in Western Sweden. Carbon dating tests have revealed one of the trees to have […]

Experiencing Pure Darkness in Stockholm’s Färgfabriken Art Gallery

“Only when standing in a pitch-dark room do you realize that you actually start to see. Even in the perfect darkness, there is always some kind of light.” – John Duncan Darkness – true darkness – isn’t something I expect to see as a city traveler, in gothic cathedrals built to lift worshipers’ eyes to the […]

Tiny Thieves Leave a Trail of Robberies

This story is almost too outrageous to be true. Cops looking for clues to a spate of robberies across Sweden have reached the conclusion that they were committed by a person of “very short stature” hiding in large sports bags. The modus operandi apparently is quite simple. Members of the racket board a bus, and place […]

Emotion Sensitive Lighting for Buildings: What Color is Your City Today?

So you thought you were the only one feeling blue? In Stockholm, the Haymarketscrapers towers reflect the mood of citizens by changing color. Purple signifies deep depression, while a bright red means citizens are happy, happy, happy! How do the towers know citizens’ emotional state of mind? Simple. People can […]

Virgin Galactic Plans Tours Into the Northern Lights

No one can accuse Richard Branson of thinking small. His ambitious Virgin Galactic Spaceport in New Mexico won’t be ready for operations until 2010, but that hasn’t stopped the maverick entrepreneur from announcing another equally large scale project. This time Branson wants to fly rich space tourists to watch the most spectacular light show in […]

Way Past the Arctic Circle: A Journey to Sweden’s Original Ice Hotel

… I was thousands of miles from home. My short nap had been a false illusion of comfort. I had awoken to the freezing Arctic Circle.