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Lubomir Kavalek, international chess grandmaster, dies at 77 Emily Langer Shortly after Lubomir Kavalek was named an international grandmaster of chess in 1965, he was aboard a train en route to Prague when a countryman, the celebrated Czech player Karel Opocensky, made an observation that proved prophetic. “You are now nailed to the chess board, young man,” Mr. Kavalek recalled the older man telling him. For the next half-century, until his death on Jan. 18 at 77, M...

Reducing air pollution 'could prevent 50,000 EU deaths'

There used to be a schoolyard card game called Top Trumps, with cards swapped over challenges in various categories, the highest number winning.

Icelands emergency communications goes green 13 January 2021 | Melanie Mingas Icelandics state-owned telecoms provider Neyðarlínan ohf has partnered with GenCell Energy to overcome challenging power requirements while reducing its environmental impact. Neyðarlínan ohf is to install the zero-emission GenCell A5 off-grid power solution at its Emergency Communications System (ECS) station on the outskirts of Reykjavik (pictured) to back up its current power supply and replace the gri...

Reducing air pollution to World Health Organisation recommended levels would prevent more than 50,000 deaths a year across European cities, according to a new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal. In the first such study of its kind, the paper, released on Wednesday (20 January), estimated the number of premature deaths due to fine particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in over 1000 cities across Europe, ranking cities from the highest to the lowest mortality burde...

“The country’s interest in this sport is continually growing,” said Karim Djermoum, Executive Manager. The track is 900 metres long and 12 metres wide and will offer 16 top quality go-karts to rent. The track is also equipped with state-of-the-art timekeeping equipment, meaning Iceland finally has a go-kart track which can be described as world class. Korputorg is Iceland’s newest massive out-of-town shopping centre and has been nicknamed ‘Krepputorg’ because of the hard time it has...

Two Against the Ice. The story is set in 1909, when Denmark’s Alabama expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (played by Coster-Waldau) was attempting to disprove the United States’ claim to North-Eastern Greenland, a dispute that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving the crew behind with the ship, Mikkelsen sleds across the ice with his inexperienced crew member Iver Iversen ( Joe Cole). The two men succeed in finding proof ...

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Cut air pollution to avoid 50,000 preventable deaths in European cities, Lancet study says The authors said the results showed the urgency of cutting emissions from transport, industry and domestic activities 20 January 2021 • 3:55pm  An aerial picture taken with a drone shows a wispy blanket of smog over Krakow, southern Poland Credit: LUKASZ GAGULSKI/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock /Shutterstock Cutting air pollution could prevent 50,000 premature deaths each year in Europe, a Lancet study has found...

Not that 2018, 2019 or 2020 weren’t already great. Per Oxx’s end-of-year 2020 analysis, we know at least 823 Nordic founders are already building SaaS companies. 2021 shows even greater promise. The pandemic accelerated digitalization, which boosted SaaS company valuations. And the continuous development of the Nordic and Baltic startup ecosystems has made it even […]