-
+2 +1
Hamburgers and beer are about to start flying through the skies of Reykjavík, Iceland
Drone delivery has taken another small step toward becoming a reality, thanks to a new trial taking place in Iceland. Israeli drone logistics company Flytrex has partnered with Icelandic on-demand goods service AHA to set up a small drone delivery route in Reykjavík.
-
+16 +1
"What kind of society do you want to live in?": Inside the country where Down syndrome is disappearing
With the rise of prenatal screening tests across Europe and the United States, the number of babies born with Down syndrome has significantly decreased, but few countries have come as close to eradicating Down syndrome births as Iceland.
-
+26 +1
Switzerland follows Iceland in declaring war against the bankers.
Inspired by Iceland’s progress, activists in Switzerland are now making an important stand against the banking cartels and have successfully petitioned to bring an initiative to public referendum that would attack the private banks where it matters most: their power to lend money they don’t actually have, and to create money out of thin air. (May 22, 2017)
-
+26 +1
A molten puddle deep under Iceland may reveal where volcanoes get their lava
Ultralow-velocity zones may anchor volcano-feeding mantle plumes
-
+23 +1
A Plane Crash, A Glacier, And An Entrepreneur: How Icelandair Opened Up Air Travel For Everyone
In the winter of 1951, Alfred Eliasson’s company, Icelandic Airlines, was about to go under. The founder and his executive team had decided to pull out of the transatlantic market just a few months prior, after established carriers like Pan-Am proved to be tougher competition than expected. Low domestic demand in Iceland, a country of just 200,000 inhabitants at the time, also proved to be a challenge. By December of 1950, the airline known as Loftleiðir in Icelandic had only one scheduled route. It was between the capital city of Reykjavik and a small group of islands off Iceland’s east coast.
-
+36 +1
Iceland drills 4.7 km down into volcano to tap clean energy
It's named after a Nordic god and drills deep into the heart of a volcano
-
+25 +1
Storybook Landscape Photos Celebrate the Enchanting Beauty of Iceland
The Follow Me Away project captures stunning images of breathtaking places. For the latest installment, the model/photographer duo traveled to Iceland.
-
+5 +1
Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening
In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Why won’t other countries follow suit?
-
+2 +1
Iceland Knows How To Stop Teen Substance Abuse. The World Isn't Listening
In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut. Why aren't other countries following its lead?
-
+36 +1
Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening
In Iceland, teenage smoking, drinking and drug use have been radically cut in the past 20 years. Why won’t other countries follow suit?
-
+22 +1
Iceland's female hip-hop collective is changing the game
With songs about slut-shaming and body positivity, Iceland's punkest hip-hop crew are finally putting the country's female rappers on the map.
-
+14 +1
East Icelanders tell TV weatherman to stop standing in front of their region
People in the eastern part of Iceland are feeling overshadowed. And they're blaming it all on TV weatherman Sigurður Jonsson.
-
+12 +1
Iceland’s Pirate party invited to form government
Anti-establishment group receives mandate for power-sharing pact after talks to build five-party coalition fail.
-
+23 +1
NSFW Icelandic Humor Is As Dark As Their Winters (NSFW)
Gálgahúmor is Icelandic for black humor (or gallows humor), and as you can see from these super dark comics by Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic humor is blacker than most.
-
+31 +1
Hvannadalshnukur, Iceland.
I was really never so close to a glacier. The only time I've seen a glacier before, was in Norway a few months ago, but only from the distance. This time, I could stand right next to it. It was absolutely breathtaking and incredible. This place was weirdly quiet. But every now and then, the ice cracked and big chunks of ice broke off and fell into the glacier lagoon. I will never forget this sound in my head. It is so unique, as nothing else I've ever heard in my life. Another thing I loved about Hvannadalshnúkur, is the contrast of the green mountains, the blue white glacier and the brown water. So many natural contrasts in one place.
1 comments by sasky -
+18 +1
Flying over Iceland
-
+36 +1
Pirates poised to take over Iceland
In the fjord-bound fishing town of Höfn, Iceland, a group of high school students are impatiently waiting for a Pirate. She comes, bearing a flag: Purple with the outline of a sail blown into the shape of a capital P. Emblazoned on the sail is a white, flayed cod in a nod to Icelandic heraldry. The queen of the Pirates in this constituency is Oktavia Hrund Jónsdóttir, 37, who is campaigning for the Icelandic Pirate Party ahead of October 29’s elections to Iceland’s Parliament, the Althingi.
-
+3 +1
Icelandic airline announces transatlantic flights from Cork Airport
WOW air, an Icelandic low cost airline, has announced transatlantic flights from Cork Airport, via Reykjavik, to eight cities across the US and Canada. The Icelandic low cost operator will also start a new Cork to Reykjavik service next year, with onward connections to major US and Canadian cities including New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Washington DC, Montreal and Toronto, with fares from €149 each way.
-
+36 +1
The Radical, Grassroots-Led Pirate Party Just Might Win Iceland’s Elections
Though she’s grown out the blue-dyed coiffure, Birgitta Jónsdóttir still brightens up the anodyne halls of the Althing, Iceland’s parliament in Reykjavík, the country’s capital. In stockinged feet, a white-cotton hippie skirt, and a dark-blue embroidered waistcoat, the 49-year-old Jónsdóttir refuses to fit the classic mold of politician, even though she’s occupied a parliamentary seat for seven years, since 2012 as the front person of the Pirate Party. Jónsdóttir, the former WikiLeaks spokesperson and a published lyricist, calls herself a “poetician,” since verse is her true calling...
-
+35 +1
Iceland’s Plan to Get Energy from Hot Magma Is Really Cool
Iceland boasts some of the most alien geography on Earth, and now the Nordic country is tapping its unique natural phenomena as a potential—and highly volatile—source of future energy. An intrepid team of Icelandic researchers hopes that magma, or molten rock, might one day become a super-powerful geothermal energy source. Right now, the Iceland Deep Drilling Project (IDDP) is attempting to harvest power from magma beneath a lava flow in Reykjanes. If they succeed, their achievement “could lead to a revolution in the energy efficiency of high-temperature...
Submit a link
Start a discussion