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Rifts, Rain And Rebirth: Up Close And (Very) Personal With The Þríhnúkagígur Volcano
by Poppy Askham
Childhood adventure books led me to believe that descending into a volcano would be a far more frequent occurrence than…
Lupines To Be Used For Food And Agriculture At The University Of Iceland
by Nico Borbely
Few other plants divide opinions in Iceland quite as much as the lupine, Fréttablaðið reports. The flower in question, native…
Exploring The South: Herstory And Day Drinking With Ladies In Film
by Inês Pereira
While rushing looking for bus stop #6 I hoped to find a group of women that, like me, were arriving…
Follow Iceland’s Volcanic Activity In Real Time
Geology nerds and the simply curious alike can now monitor 32 of Iceland’s volcanoes—most of them still active—in real time….
The Magic Happens When You’re Playing: The Rise Of Ágústa Eva
“As I’m getting older, with more experience from life, I’m also getting more passionate about changing the world for the…
Iceland Airwaves Reveals Their Full Line-Up
Listen up, fellow music nerds: Iceland Airwaves is right around the corner. From November 6 to November 9, you can…
Nerds Of EVE Online Lose Minds Over Change In Chat Function
Remember in the first season of ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ when the Vulcans gained the ability to fly undetected by comms…
Nerds Of EVE Online Decimated By NPC Drifters
Last week, the nerds of the MMORPG EVE Online were shocked by a surprise attack—no, not of heart disease from…
War Of The Nerds: Iceland Has Belugas In The House!
So, Iceland has belugas now. We endeavoured to fly them over from China in the middle of June and they…
War Of The Nerds: The Odd Battle Of The Roundabouts
Let’s just be honest about it: roundabouts are nightmarish and confusing structures. It’s like a saddening metaphor for the pointless…
War Of The Nerds: In Eve Online, A Betrayal
Can you put a price on friendship? Eve Online player Samantha Myth did. On a whim, he spent 16 months…
Downtown Reykjavik Streets Pedestrian-And-Bicycle Only From Now Until October
For the eighth year running, several downtown streets will, in whole or in part, be closed to car traffic through…
Palestinian Group Urges Hatari To Withdraw From Eurovision
The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) is urging Hatari to withdraw from Eurovision in…
The Stones Speak: X-Men Star Tómas Lemarquis Talks ‘The Rock Of Ages’
by John Rogers
Tómas Lemarquis opens his front door, smiling broadly. Tanned, wiry, and wearing a bold red sweater, he cuts a striking…
War of the Nerds: The shadow war on Laugavegur
There is trouble brewing, trouble that hides under the dust of Laugavegur, under the ever-flowing groups of tourists, behind the…
Best Of Reykjavík 2019: Best Record Store
Icelandic style and design has escalated in scope over recent years, with an ensuing explosion of local stores. While high…
War Of The Nerds: Iceland Solves the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
If there is something holier than Christmas in Iceland, it would probably be Eurovision. Our readers know this. Icelanders go…
Albums Of The Year: Our Critics’ Music Picks Of 2018
Deliberating over the Grapevine’s Music Awards is a difficult process—for every winner that we hand a medal to, there are…
War Of The Nerds: Iceland Vs. Iceland
Remember that time you got drunk and copyrighted the word ‘Macedonia’ and then got super rich by suing every history…
War Of The Nerds: Grab Your Flogger And Latex, Weirdos
The BDSM community has oft been misunderstood. Those not associated probably just think of badly written love interests like Christian…
War Of The Nerds: The Shawarma Struggle
So your girlfriend just left you, your friends found cooler ones, you have a Rudolph sized pimple on your nose,…