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  • Three Hours Of Sun Is A Luxury

    Three Hours Of Sun Is A Luxury

    Although at 64° N Reykjavík is the world’s northernmost capital city, the most northerly permanently populated site on Earth is Svalbard. Located at 78° N, this Norwegian archipelago is about halfway between the edge of continental Europe and the North Pole. Winter…

  • SAD Times: The Effects Of Winter—And How To Fight Back

    SAD Times: The Effects Of Winter—And How To Fight Back

    When I meet working psychologist and PhD student Erla Björnsdóttir, it’s already dark outside. Reykjavík’s streets are becoming treacherous as compacted snow freezes into sheets of slippery ice, and the streetlights have been lit for a couple of hours already, throughout the…