Because, Nordic Countries

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-unknown-strain-of-plague-found-in-5000-year-old-tomb-in-sweden/

In a nearly 5,000-year-old tomb in Sweden, researchers have discovered the oldest-known strain of the notorious bacterium Yersinia pestis — the microbe responsible for humanity's perhaps most-feared contagion: the plague.

 

The finding suggests that the germ may have devastated settlements across Europe at the end of the Stone Age in what may have been the first major pandemic of human history. It could also rewrite some of what we know of ancient European history.

 

The finding came about as the researchers were analyzing publicly available databases of ancient DNA for cases in which infections might have claimed prehistoric victims. They focused on the previously excavated site of Frälsegården in Sweden. Previous analysis of a limestone tomb at the site found that an estimated 78 people were buried there, and they all had died within a 200-year period. The fact that many people died in a relatively short time in one place suggested they might have perished together in an epidemic, lead study author Nicolás Rascovan, a biologist at Aix-Marseille University in Marseille, France, told Live Science. The limestone tomb was dated to the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the period when farming began.

 

The researchers discovered the previously unknown strain of plague in the remains of a woman at the Frälsegården site. Carbon dating suggested she died about 4,900 years ago during a period known as the Neolithic Decline, when Neolithic cultures throughout Europe mysteriously dwindled.

 

Based on her hip bones and other skeletal features, they estimated the woman was about 20 years old when she died. The plague strain found with her had a genetic mutation that can trigger pneumonic plague — the deadliest form of historic and modern plague — suggesting the woman likely died of the disease. (The most common form of plague is bubonic plague, which occurs when plague bacteria spread to the lymph nodes and cause inflammation, according to the World Health Organization. The inflamed lymph nodes are called "buboes." If the bacteria spread to the lungs, they can trigger the deadlier pneumonic plague.)

 

By comparing the newfound strain with known plague DNA, the scientists determined that the ancient sample was the closest known relative of the plague bacterium's most recent ancestor. The study researchers theorized that the ancient sample diverged from other plague strains about 5,700 years ago.

[Mr King]

The inflamed lymph nodes are called "buboes."

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So that's where that word is from.

[Panzermann]

How are minttu tabletit advertised in Finland?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so many funny details in the ad

 

 

Edited January 31, 2019 by Panzermann

[Ssnake]

This evening, I realized that Risto Ranta is a legitimate name in Finland.

[Ivanhoe]

 

Cue the Nelson ha-ha laugh;

 

https://pjmedia.com/trending/so-what-if-the-clinton-foundation-fleeced-norway-bring-on-the-chardonnay/

 

 

The numbers are scandalous. Between 2007 and 2016, the Norwegian government transferred no less than 640 million kroner in taxpayer money to the Clinton Foundation. Given the average exchange rate during that period, that sum would’ve been roughly equivalent to $100 million. This means that each and every Norwegian citizen, without being asked, put about twenty dollars into the pockets of that crooked enterprise.

 

The official reason for these massive payouts was that the Norwegian government wanted to help mothers and children in Africa. In 2016, Norway’s purported newspaper of record, Aftenposten, ran an article in which Stephen Gillers, an expert on legal ethics at NYU, said that the real motive was to buy influence for Norway in the corridors of American power.

[Yama]

Norwegian government has so much money that it might be actually better return for taxpayer to dump some of it on daft targets like that, rather than pay for construction of yet another money bin.

[Roman Alymov]

[bd1]

finnish word of the day - helikopterimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas. helicopter engines assistant mechanic-trainee NCO .

[Ssnake]

I could identify three out of six.

[Ivanhoe]

https://quillette.com/2019/04/23/self-harm-versus-the-greater-good-greta-thunberg-and-child-activism/

Greta is eleven years old and has gone two months without eating. Her heart rate and blood pressure show clear signs of starvation. She has stopped speaking to anyone but her parents and younger sister, Beata.

 

After years of depression, eating disorders, and anxiety attacks, she finally receives a medical diagnosis: Asperger’s syndrome, high-functioning autism, and OCD. She also suffers from selective mutism—which explains why she sometimes can’t speak to anyone outside her closest family. When she wants to tell a climate researcher that she plans a school strike on behalf of the environment, she speaks through her father.

 

The book Scenes from the Heart (“Scener från Hjärtat,” 2018) recounts these medical difficulties and the events that led to Greta Thunberg’s now-famous “school strike for climate,” in which hundreds of thousands of children have refused to attend school to protest about government inaction over climate change. Greta herself strikes every Friday and spent three weeks sitting outside the Swedish Parliament at the beginning of the school year. Written by her family—mother, father, Beata and Greta—the story is told in the voice of Greta’s mother, the opera soprano Malena Ernman, who was a celebrity in Europe long before her daughter’s fame. Although the book is only available in Swedish for the time being, it is already being translated into numerous languages—a development that reflects the global fascination with Thunberg’s campaign.

Is it too early to call Munchausen By Proxy?

[Stuart Galbraith]

Sounds like a pretty remarkable kid actually. Like a climate change oriented Saga Noren.

[Chris Werb]

Sounds like a pretty remarkable kid actually. Like a climate change oriented Saga Noren.

 

Best line in a Scandi Noir. Saga is at a bar in a nightclub and goes up to a bloke.

 

Saga: I want to have sex with you.

 

Bloke: Would you like a drink?

 

Saga: I do not want a drink. I want to have sex with you.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Yeah, she played that part so damn well. There is a really great video where Sofia Helin plays her presenting a chat show....

[Ivanhoe]

For you Nordophobes, here is the thread you were looking for...

[Yama]

Yeah, she played that part so damn well. There is a really great video where Sofia Helin plays her presenting a chat show....

 

 

Uh, I actually find that slightly disturbing. It's almost if Skavlan quickly decides it's getting bit scary

[Ivanhoe]

[Martin M]

https://quillette.com/2019/04/23/self-harm-versus-the-greater-good-greta-thunberg-and-child-activism/

Greta is eleven years old and has gone two months without eating. Her heart rate and blood pressure show clear signs of starvation. She has stopped speaking to anyone but her parents and younger sister, Beata.

 

After years of depression, eating disorders, and anxiety attacks, she finally receives a medical diagnosis: Asperger’s syndrome, high-functioning autism, and OCD. She also suffers from selective mutism—which explains why she sometimes can’t speak to anyone outside her closest family. When she wants to tell a climate researcher that she plans a school strike on behalf of the environment, she speaks through her father.

 

The book Scenes from the Heart (“Scener från Hjärtat,” 2018) recounts these medical difficulties and the events that led to Greta Thunberg’s now-famous “school strike for climate,” in which hundreds of thousands of children have refused to attend school to protest about government inaction over climate change. Greta herself strikes every Friday and spent three weeks sitting outside the Swedish Parliament at the beginning of the school year. Written by her family—mother, father, Beata and Greta—the story is told in the voice of Greta’s mother, the opera soprano Malena Ernman, who was a celebrity in Europe long before her daughter’s fame. Although the book is only available in Swedish for the time being, it is already being translated into numerous languages—a development that reflects the global fascination with Thunberg’s campaign.

Is it too early to call Munchausen By Proxy?

 

 

The fascination is (leftist) media made.

 

 

I hold suicide before she is 30 probable.

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

Yeah, she played that part so damn well. There is a really great video where Sofia Helin plays her presenting a chat show....

 

 

Uh, I actually find that slightly disturbing. It's almost if Skavlan quickly decides it's getting bit scary

 

 

 

She is pretty great though. Dont quite know what im going to do with myself now The Bridge has finished.

[Chris Werb]

 

 

Yeah, she played that part so damn well. There is a really great video where Sofia Helin plays her presenting a chat show....

 

 

Uh, I actually find that slightly disturbing. It's almost if Skavlan quickly decides it's getting bit scary

 

 

 

She is pretty great though. Dont quite know what im going to do with myself now The Bridge has finished.

 

 

I suspect the same thing we've been doing with ourselves since our early teens

[Stuart Galbraith]

Top Trumps?

[BansheeOne]

Copenhagen police station hit as Danish capital sees second blast

2 hours ago

An explosion has hit a police station in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, the second blast to hit the city this week.

 

The building was damaged but no-one was injured in the incident early on Saturday, which took place just outside the city centre.

 

On Tuesday, there was a powerful explosion outside the national tax agency, in what the authorities say was a deliberate attack.

 

It is unclear if the two incidents are linked.

 

Police say they are looking for a man who was seen fleeing the scene of the police station blast, who was wearing dark clothing and white shoes.

 

"This was not an accident, but a deliberate act," Chief Police Inspector Jorgen Bergen Skov said, adding that while the investigation was still under way, nothing suggested it was terror-related.

 

"These were attacks against buildings, not people," he said. "But it is too early to say anything about the motive."

 

One person was slightly injured in the explosion at the tax agency earlier in the week.

 

The blast, which happened late on Tuesday, smashed windows and damaged the front of the building.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49304356

 

Per the photo of the suspect, they're looking for Bigfoot. Or this being Scandinavia, probably a small troll.

 

 

https://twitter.com/KobenhavnPoliti/status/1160110394154901504/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1160110394154901504&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpanorama%2Fjustiz%2Fkopenhagen-explosion-vor-polizeiwache-die-zweite-binnen-vier-tagen-a-1281360.html

[Ivanhoe]

Dark clothing and white shoes? Attack of the Chavs?

[Panzermann]

Dark clothing and white shoes? Attack of the Chavs?

 

I personally have never understood the appeal of white trainers outside a tennis court or a gym hall. They get dirty quickly on the streets.

 

 

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from the finlan finland finland department:

 

 

KALSARIKÄNNIT

The feeling when you are going to get drunk home alone in your underwear – with no intention of going out.

A drink. At home. In your underwear. And there is a word for it. Kalsarikännit.

there is even an emoji for it:

and there is a "the voice" emoji:

and this one: https://finland.fi/emoji/tom-of-finland/

All published by the government of finland no less: https://finland.fi/emoji/(there are many more)

Certainly more sensible than recent additions to the emoji unicode block.

[BansheeOne]

There was a time I linked to wear sneakers, but I don't feel young and sporty enough anymore.

 

They caught at least one suspect in the Copenhagen blasts BTW - a Swede. No doubt a revisionist trying to re-establish Swedish rule over Greater Scandinavia.

 

Swede suspected of Copenhagen blast to be extradited to Denmark

 

(Reuters) - A man detained in Sweden on suspicion of being behind an explosion near a Danish government agency is to be handed over to Denmark, Swedish radio reported.

 

The Malmo district court on Friday formally detained the 22-year-old Swede after Swedish police arrested him on Tuesday at the request of Denmark, the public broadcaster said.

 

Him and another man are suspected of having detonated a bomb outside the Danish Tax Agency on Aug. 7 that injured one person and damaged the front of the building.

 

[...]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-blast-sweden/swede-suspected-of-copenhagen-blast-to-be-extradited-to-denmark-idUSKCN1V61CA

Edited August 19, 2019 by BansheeOne

[wendist]

If we are to believe information (read rumour) found on the net then one of the "swedish" suspects is of turkish/bulgarian origin and the other one is lebanese. Why they did it is a bit of a mystery but at least the lebanese swede is supposed to have some leanings towards socialism.