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I grew up with my grandparents’ stories about the huldufólk in Iceland. Even as superstition fades from the West, respect for the Hidden Folk stays strong: 80% of Icelanders believe

Ten % of the population of #Iceland has been tested for #SARSCoV2 -- whether or not they have #COVID19. And:- 0.3%-0.8% of Iceland's population is infected- about 50% of those

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Came home and saw D2: The Mighty Ducks on TV. I have to express my opinion on something that would've changed the whole movie. Thread 1/? The Ducks/USA were so

Fun fact: el primer europeo que descubrió América fue el mercader islandés Bjarni Herjólfsson, en 986. Aunque no llegó a desembarcar, avistó las costas y regresó a Islandia a contar

Gaelic influence hides in plain sight everywhere in #Iceland: placenames, beehive huts, folklore, encoded in the sagas and above all in Icelanders' DNA. Key to the mystery is a system

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It is always said of Icelandic that it is a very conservative language. True. Modern Icelandic is close to its Old Norse roots and has preserved morphological features long lost

I had hoped to complete an article by today, the 45th anniversary of the women's strike, outlining my reflections on living in Iceland, the #1 country for gender equality. But

No one has ever denied the possibility of pediatric infection or transmission. You are engaging with a straw man. The real question has always been a quantitative one: do children

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Attention Whimbrel-watchers! They're starting to arrive! 1/2Some will manage a non-stop trip to Iceland but most will stop off: https://wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/11/21/iceland-to-africa-non-stop/ #ornithology #waders #nocmig 2/2 Studies by @C

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Hawaii, opening up to tourism with testing may not be the best idea.Islands like Aruba, French Polynesia, and Iceland had seen terrific control of COVID until tourists, fully tested tourists,

Exclusive: Chicks at farms supplying Tesco, Ocado and McDonald’s made to die of thirst or had necks crushed if they were deemed 'unprofitable'. Water was gradually raised out of their

HALF are asymptomatic. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/04/10/coronavirus-covid-19-small-nations-iceland-big-data/2959797001/ https://twitter.com/nrg8000/status/1249634196147953664 Another interesting thread here https://twitter.com/gumm

I needed something different to divert my mind, so over the past few days, I watched both seasons of Trapped. It’s definitely not for everyone, but it was a good

Comparing the US to super safe countries like Iceland & Japan is absurd. A more realistic comparison would be to Brazil, El Salvador or the Philippines: countries w/ ultra high

Lessons from Iceland, a model country for #COVID19 containment, from extensive population testing and virus sequencinghttps://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2006100?query=featured_home @NEJM I want to add 2 notable points I learned from this rep

Given that it's #FolkloreThursday, I thought I might tell you a story about witches and fart runes (yes, fart runes) from the #Westfjords of #Iceland. THREAD The Westfjords are a