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Scientists release personal data for 70,000 OkCupid profiles
A group of Danish researchers scraped data from 70,000 OkCupid profiles, packaged it in a data set, and released it on the internet. While the profiles are technically public, collecting personal information on such a massive scale without getting consent from either OkCupid or the users themselves is at the very least a breach of social science ethics, experts say. The researchers, Emil Kirkegaard, Oliver Nordbjerg, and Julius Daugbjerg Bjerrekær, used software...
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Old House
An older photo in a new edition. It is a house on the open air museum called Frilandsmuseet in Denmark. A number of old houses from all over the country have been moved to this place.
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Denmark Considers Taxing Meat, Calling It An Ethical Responsibility
We tax cigarettes and alcohol, in part to discourage their consumption, so why not tax meat? After all, bacon gives you cancer, cows cause climate change, and eating less meat could save us trillions of dollars. That’s why the Danish Council of Ethics recommends taxing beef. "The Danes' way of life is far from climatically, sustainable, and if we are to live up to the Paris agreement's objective of keeping global temperature rise well below 2°C...
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Scandinavian nation named world's happiest, again
Denmark, perhaps better known for its fictional, suicide-agonizing prince Hamlet and fierce marauding Vikings than being a nation of the happiest people, has just won that very accolade. Again. The United Nations has made it official: It found Danes to be the happiest people on Earth, in a study of 156 countries. Knud Christensen, a 39-year-old social worker, knows one reason why his compatriots are laid-back - they feel secure...
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Danish government let America's Snowden-kidnapping jet camp out in Copenhagen
The Gulfstream, tail number N977GA, was given permission to land in and fly over Denmark, and spent some time parked in Copenhagen, waiting to snatch Edward Snowden and kidnap him to America.
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Denmark wants to watch everything you do online
The Danish telecommunications industry has expressed concerns over the Justice Ministry’s plan to reintroduce so-called internet session logging, the registration of residents’ online activity.
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Denmark adopts law approving seizure of migrant assets - CNN.com
Danish lawmakers approve controversial legislation giving authorities power to seize valuables from asylum seekers to cover their expenses.
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Danish city makes pork mandatory but allows other food
A Danish city has ordered pork to be mandatory on municipal menus, including for schools and daycare centers, with politicians insisting the move is necessary for preserving the country's food traditions and is not an attack on Muslims. Frank Noergaard, a member of the council in Randers that narrowly approved the decision earlier this week, says it was made to ensure that pork remains "a central part of Denmark's food culture."
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Danish nightclub bars migrants over language requirements
A Danish nightclub has been accused of discrimination over its language requirements for entry by asylum seekers, prompting fears more establishments could follow suit amid a spate of reports of sexual harassment. The Buddy Holly nightclub in the southern town of Sonderborg has hit the news after requiring customers to speak either Danish, English or German after women in several Danish towns hosting refugees complained of being harassed by asylum seekers.
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This Danish City is Giving Bikers the Green Light
In a pilot program underway in Aarhus, Denmark, cyclists are given RFID tags that trigger traffic lights in their favor. By Heather Hansman.
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Blowing Off the Grid
Samsø [Denmark] runs on renewable energy—and makes money doing it. By Steve Brodner.
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Where winter is cold, dark and beautiful
In Greenland the shortest day of the year can have little more than three hours of sunlight - but the long, dark winter can be a thing of beauty.
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Something Not Rotten in Denmark
**Submitter's note: to avoid paywall restrictions, always browse this site in privacy/incognito mode.** How great are the Danes, really? The answer is that the Danes get a lot of things right, and in so doing refute just about everything U.S. conservatives say about economics. And we can also learn a lot from the things Denmark has gotten wrong.
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Tournament
It is not so easy to capture a guy on a horse chopping away at random objects when he actually hits the object. It is a one off chance - he is not going to repeat his act, just because you didn't capture the moment. This time I was lucky to get it almost right, but I would have liked a slightly different angle with more space underneath the sword and less stuff in the background. In any case I'm quite happy with the result :-)
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Pirate Bay Founder Finally Free After Three Years
Pirate Bay founder Gottfrid Svartholm is a free man again after serving three years in prison for hacking and copyright offenses. His release marks the end of a turbulent and tough period characterized by successive trials, appeals and convictions in both Sweden and Denmark.
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past
This is a new edit of a photo I took at a photo tour with about 50 other photographers in Viborg, Denmark, in May 2008. At the time I only processed the jpgs, but fortunately I also kept the raw files, so this is based on the raw file. The kind of lightbulbs in the lamp are no longer used, so in more than one sense the photo is from the past :-)
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Føroyar / Færøerne / Faroe Islands
The Faroe Islands is an ancient volcanic archipelago in the middle of the North Atlantic with a population of just 50 000. Though technically part of the Danish Kingdom, the Faroe Islands is its own self-governing country.
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bridge
An older photo of the bridge connecting two of the biggest islands in Denmark.
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Danish Researchers: There's a Better Way to Line Up Than 'First Come, First Served'
George Mikes, a Hungarian-born British author, once wrote “an Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.” Whether it’s at the bank or the grocery store, waiting in line is a staple of British life. What, then, would Brits make of Danish researchers who suggest the age-old discipline of “first come, first served” is a waste of time?
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This House In Denmark Is Actually Five Little Houses In One
Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter designed a home in Denmark, that is split up into five separate buildings, each one being a different part of the home.
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