Tag: Linnaeus University
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The controversial call: Take the plane instead of the train and bus
From the Kalmar region comes an invitation to take the flight instead of the train and bus. According to the opposition, the flight is a prerequisite for healthcare and business to function in the county. Should we feel flight shame? Hear Malin Sjölanderopposition councilor for the Moderates in Kalmar and Stefan Gösslingprofessor of tourism science…
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Choral singing makes the brain happy
The mental state and ability to think seem to be improved by choral singing. But what is it about group singing that produces these effects? And does it matter what music you perform? We talk to Thores Theorell, professor emeritus of internal medicine at Karolinska Institutet, who studied how music affects the brain and body.…
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Louise’s dream of the perfect lie detector
Most countries in the world, including Sweden, have dismissed the lie detector as an aid in criminal investigations. The question is whether new technology for looking into people’s brains could change that attitude. Host: Louise Epstein Visitor: Ola Hermanson, brain researcher Karolinska Institutet Guest: Ola Kronkvist, lecturer in police science at Linnaeus University Producer: Ulrika…
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It’s harder than you think to expose a liar
Louise is visited by Ola Kronkvist, police researcher with a great interest in interrogation techniques and lying people. He explains why squinting, blushing cheeks and other signs of nervousness are often associated with lying – and why it’s problematic. Ola Hermanson figures out what happens in the brain when we lie. Host: Louise Epstein Visitor:…
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Gustafva spent almost 50 years in prison without confessing
Runar Kjellgren has spent many years researching his grandfather’s father’s sister Gustafva Kjellgren, who was born in 1802 in Timmele just outside Ulricehamn. When she was 18, she and another maid followed the farm trader Brita Starkman. There are several versions of what happened next. Partly the one that Gustafva stuck to and which assumed…
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The spiral of violence in Kalmar
Worakan Banyaem was Philip’s friend. They met for the first time at the age of ten, they have played football together and have known each other through football ever since. – Always a smile on your face. Regardless of whether it was winter, summer or autumn. It was important to him that we have fun,…
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The Political Room: On Nationalism
We live in a time when globalization, migration and war are challenging national borders. The political ideologies provide different answers to what unites a nation, who is allowed to participate and how the nation should relate to other states. Can we talk about ONE nationalism or should we rather talk about nationalisms? How does it…
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Part 1/2. The scandal at Huseby – the return of the Royal House
Florence Stephens grows up on the mighty estate Huseby mill outside Växjö. She is a skilled rider with a strong sense of animals, but seems to have a harder time deciding which people to trust. In 1957, the Huseby scandal broke out, a shaking tangle with branches all the way up to the royal house.…
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The legal drama between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
Actor Johnny Depp has sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel after a column she wrote in The Washington Post 2018. The trial has been broadcast live on television – and on social media, detached clips are rolling. Hear about what we know about the case – and our fascination with celebrity privacy. Johnny Depp…
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The study shows that mummification in Europe may be older than previously known
Uppsala [Sweden], March 7 (ANI): Mummification is the process of preserving the body after death by intentionally drying or embalming meat. A recent discovery made at the cemeteries of hunters and gatherers in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8,000 years ago, showed that mummification of the dead probably seemed more common in prehistory…
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Part 1/2. The scandal at Huseby – the return of the Royal House
Florence Stephens grows up on the mighty estate Huseby mill outside Växjö. She is a skilled rider with a strong sense of animals, but seems to have a harder time deciding which people to trust. In 1957, the Huseby scandal broke out, a shaking tangle with branches all the way up to the royal house.…
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Sacagawea – the American guide through the wilderness
The editorial staff of this section consists of: Julia Grauers – hostCecilia Düringer – script editing Elina Perdahl – script and researchMårten Andersson – producerPablo Leiva Wenger – stage narratorJulia Öjbrandt – sound design and final mix Gunlög Fur also participates, professor of history at Linnaeus University .. Want to know more about Sacagawea? Here…
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Sis boss: Some placed young people should not be with us
Some children who are placed in the state youth homes, so-called Sis homes, should instead be placed in the closed child and adolescent psychiatry. This is what Sis’ Director General Elisabet Åbjörnsson Hollmark says. The authority sees a development where the placed children now have a much greater mental illness – which the youth homes…
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Conspiracy thinking took hold of his partner
While demonstrations are being held in Sweden and the world against pandemic restrictions and vaccines, “Fredrik” feels that he is losing his partner to the conspiracy theories. She is one of many who seek simple answers to complex questions about vaccines – and end up in conspiracy theory threads that lead away from facts and…
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Family ties
That day a week before Easter, Artur was to work in the woods with his brother. Ingeborg’s schedule stated that she would first wash and then bake for a planned association meeting. Before Artur left, he helped Ingeborg to take in and fill the large tub with water. After a while in the woods, Arthur’s…
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Low social background results in poorer care in cardiac arrest
People with a low socio-economic background who have a cardiac arrest while they are hospitalized are at greater risk of dying. A study at Linnaeus University found that 28 percent of patients with low socioeconomic backgrounds were alive 30 days after cardiac arrest, compared with 32 percent of those with high socioeconomic status. The researchers…
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Sabotage at digital university lectures
More than half of the universities have had problems with sabotage at digital meetings and Zoom lectures. Tobias Hübinette is one of the teachers who witnessed harassment during a dissertation at Karlstad University this spring. Filmed abuse, offensive images and racist comments, these are some of the things that more than half of Swedish universities…