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Ladies and gentlemen We have a new I1 discovered Spain. 13.000 years old. If this is true, it prooves that I1 was in refugium in Spain during the LGM, and repopulated Europe next to I2. I haven't had time to read the article properly, but here's the relevant info. "Balma Guilanya` is a rock...

The "christmass goat" isn't just a finnish thing, it's still a quite common part of christmass celebrations in Sweden too. Called the "jul bock". It's obvious that he's being overshadowed by the american Santa Claus the last 100 years or so. They still make a huge one in Gævle though...

:smile: They describe theirs better, but yes, I believe so. Here’s European value study’s methodology. www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu/page/methodology They ask people questions and then make statistics from that. But it’s beside the point imo. When it comes to how they formulate the questions, all...

In my opinion, the christian god of the bible is a personal god. This study from www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu is giving a bit of a different picture than PEW, I think . I'd love to get the exact numbers, put to me it looks like 20% believing in a personal god in Denmark, for instance. And that...

To be honest, the numbers about Denmark surprise me. We've actually seen high numbers of people leaving our lutheran state church the last years. And it's not reflected in that study at all. The numbers for non-practicing christians in Denmark just can't be right, as I see it. But I think it...

Maciamo. I couldn't agree more on your last posts about both the japanese and the french. Very funny, after having written my last post in this thread I went into a bookstore in the center of Copenhagen, and they had a table with like 10-15 different books on the topic of danish happiness. We...

This is an english translation I made of a danish article. The original article is here: https://videnskab.dk/kultur-samfund/alken-enge-massegrav-fra-jernalderen-faar-haarene-til-at-stritte The published scientific paper they refer to in the article is published on PNAS, and can be easily found...

I agree with you, Ailchu. The only people to gain from that particular gas attack on civilian syrians, were the loosing islamist rebels - who were known to have their own stockpile of nervegas. Why would Assad gas his own civilians when he's currently winning? It makes no sense. The west has...

Just to be clear, social security isn't being generous and just handing people money if they become unemployed. Social security is helping people getting a new job - one they'll be happy about. This was actually an afterthought to my main post, which apparently was too long, and is awaiting...

First, let me say that I don’t think the idea of a genetic cause is impossible. Of cause it’s possible. I just find in more plausible that culture as well external factors, which there a lot of, come together to make Scandinavian countries come out number in the happiness index. Someone has to...

Thank you too, it's an interesting topic :) I’m sure you know that correlation does not mean causation. Comparing “happiness” and rates of depression between various ethnic groups in Canada or Alaska would be interesting, because it’s on the same longitude as Scandinavia. So it will have the...

You make a good case for the theory, but I'm not buying it. Actually your hypothesis should be pretty easy to verify. Do people of germanic descent in Canada suffer less from depression than their african, middle eastern, asian or latin countrymen? I doubt it. And about the natural selection...

How convenient, when christians do bad things, it's because they are just humans. But when they do good, it's because they are christians. I would claim that it's exactly the other way around. Christianity has, in this age we live in, completely adopted humanism. If it hadn't, it would still be...