Will Sweden’s Pirate Party Make an Impact in the European Parliament?

Finding Dulcinea 5 months ago Region: Sweden

Running on a campaign to reform copyright and piracy laws, Sweden’s Pirate Party has won a seat in the European Parliament. But will they get their platform across? Pirate Party Now Ranked Fifth Among Swedish Parties The party, led by Rickard Falkvinge, has gained a foothold in the European parliament after months of media attention in Sweden and beyond, the BBC reported. It now holds one of Sweden&rs... more

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Mobile Phone Use Raises Children's Risk of Brain Cancer

Rama Kant Mishra a year ago Region: Sweden

  Children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones, startling new research in Sweden suggests. The research was reported this month at the first international conference on mobile phones and health.  The experts raised fear that today's young people may suffer an "epidemic" of the disease in later life. At least nine out of 10 British 16-year-olds have their ow... more

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Swedish Researcher Develops Paper as Tough as Steel

Anuradha Agarwal a year ago Region: Sweden

Lars Berglund of Swedish Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm develops a paper using processed natural cellulose nanofibres.It‘s strength is almost equal to structural steel. Generally, In process of paper making natural fibers are damaged thus make them weak. Berglund develop a process to extract fiber keeping their property intact Not only undamaged fibers make the paper strong, but also the arrangemen... more

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Mac Hacked in Half Hour

R. Tom Bruno a year ago Region: Sweden

Macs Easier To Exploit In what turned out to be an exercise in how to insert foot in mouth, a Swedish Mac fan set up a Mac Mini as a Web server & challenged the hackers of the world to "try and gain root control." Less than six hours later, the box was compromised, and the site it was serving defaced with the message "This sucks. Six hours later this poor little Mac was owned and this page got defaced."   &... more

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Ancient Mickey Mouse

Alina Nuacco 2 years ago Region: Sweden

Archeologists at Sweden's Lund Historical Museum found little something, which looks remarkably similar to Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse. The object, dated to 900 A..D., was excavated at a site called Uppåkra in southern Sweden. Archeologists note that the author was trying to make a lion. more

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Teach refugees the language of adopted country

Al Jeratso 2 years ago Region: Sweden

A sad reality, indeed, to know that some four million Iraqi refugees have yet to find a better place to migrate. And the question always boils down as to who caused these refugees to go astray? Isn't it the unrest and wars now going on in some countries in Africa and the Middle East? Most popular among them are the on-going chaos in Darfur, Iraq and Palestine, which already displaced millions of families and at most, k... more

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Swedish Internet Traffic Plummets After File-Sharing Law Is Implemented

Finding Dulcinea 7 months ago Region: Sweden

by Lindsey Chapman   A crackdown on illegal file sharing may have left a few culprits worried about being caught in Sweden, one official speculates.   File-Sharing Law Leads to Arrests in Sweden   Since Sweden’s new file-sharing law took effect on April 1, Internet traffic in the country has declined more than 40 percent, The Associated Press reported. The law, which is ba... more

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Even Overweight Can Reduce One's Lifespan

Madhu R 8 months ago Region: Sweden

A research study conducted in Sweden suggests that even by being overweight and not necessarily obese, one out of three could face premature death. People who are clinically obese by the time they are 18 doubles that risk. A combination of obesity and heavy drinking increases such risk by five-fold. The study assumes importance due to the fact that according to the estimates carried out by the World Health Organizatio... more

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Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion Ingemar Johansson, 76

Leo Reyes 9 months ago Region: Sweden

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Ingemar Johansson was honored in a funeral on Friday after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for 10 years. He was 76 years old. Six members of Ingemar Johansson amateur boxing club carried the former heavyweight champion’s casket from a packed memorial on Friday, a sign on a garland of flowers reading ‘Once a Champ, always a Champ’. More than a t... more

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A Newspaper Blog for Ramadan

Global Voices a year ago Region: Sweden

As Iftar - the daily breaking of the fast during the Muslim month of Ramadan - is quickly approaching, Swedish society is reflecting on how to adapt to the traditions of “new Swedes”, and are making their own efforts to celebrate and mark Muslim holidays. The second largest Swedish daily newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, has launched a Ramadan blog [SWE], where three practising Muslim bloggers - a policeman, ... more

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