Tag: Umeå

  • The girl without a nose

    The girl without a nose

    Anna Lassi is one of nine siblings in a poor home in Korpilombolo, malnourished with crooked legs. For a long time she walks with a white cloth around her nose. But in 1928, Anna takes part in an experiment that changes her life. Tuberculosis claims many lives At the beginning of the 20th century, many…

  • The expert: These are the consequences when fewer children are born in Sweden

    The expert: These are the consequences when fewer children are born in Sweden

    10,555,448 – that's how many inhabitants we had in Sweden in November last year, according to Statistics Norway, Statistics Sweden. During Thursday morning, new statistics on the country's population are presented and part of the statistics is that the birth rate curve is falling. Glenn Sandström, Associate Professor of Demographic History at Umeå University, joins…

  • SJ cancels several train departures – hear the press manager about the situation

    SJ cancels several train departures – hear the press manager about the situation

    SJ cancels 16 departures during Monday. This applies to trains that operate the routes between Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö and Umeå. Hear Tobbe Lundell, press manager at SJ, in P1 Morgon.

  • Maxed out Christmas jazz with Sarah Dawn Finer and Samuel Ljungblahd

    Maxed out Christmas jazz with Sarah Dawn Finer and Samuel Ljungblahd

    Motown-scented soul takes center stage, but there will also be gospel, jazz and classic Christmas songs. The singers Samuel Ljungblahd and Sarah Dawn Finer have collaborated several times before and now promise to offer musical magic together with Sandviken Big Bandwhich is led by Christopher Wallin. This is a Christmas concert that contains both well-known…

  • Olof Wretling

    Olof Wretling

    His popular Winter Talk “Diagnoses in my life” led to his recently being named an honorary doctorate at Umeå University. During the year, Olof Wretling also did the new reading of “Emil in Lönneberga” and the voice of Lustig-Gök in “Astrid Lindgren's Christmas” in SVT. Last autumn, he made a success with the comedy show…

  • Agneta evacuated the tsunami Swedes

    Agneta evacuated the tsunami Swedes

    Agneta is celebrating Christmas with her family in Umeå when she hears the news about the tsunami disaster. She immediately understands that she must get ready for a rescue operation with SNAM – Swedish National Air Medevac – the Swedish national air ambulance, to which she belongs. 19-year-old Niklas in the middle of the tsunami…

  • In Search of Free Will in the Secret Chamber of the Brain

    In Search of Free Will in the Secret Chamber of the Brain

    Recently, a large research project was completed that examines whether or not humans have free will. Both brain scientists and philosophers participated. What did they come up with? And what role does free will play in how we live our lives? Host: Louise EpsteinVisitor: Anders HansenGuests: Sofia Jeppsson, associate professor of philosophy, Umeå University, Hans…

  • New: The robber league and the shooting drama in Umeå

    New: The robber league and the shooting drama in Umeå

    It all starts with the police finding out by chance that several serious criminals are planning a coup somewhere in Sweden. A bump against a safe deposit box containing several million kroner. At a time when Sweden is badly affected by violent robbery attempts, the police want to strike at the robbers at the right…

  • The war between Hamas and Israel – hear the latest in Goodmorning the world

    The war between Hamas and Israel – hear the latest in Goodmorning the world

    Ekot’s commentator Helena Gissén analyzes the Moderatstämmen in Umeå. More about the situation in Belgium after the terrorist attack in Brussels. Hear the latest in the Goodmorning world. Program manager: Nina Benner

  • Kristersson speaks at the Moderatstämman

    Kristersson speaks at the Moderatstämman

    The moderate party meeting is underway in Umeå and party leader Ulf Kristersson is speaking. Among other things, it will be about NATO membership, gang crime and European cooperation. Hear analysis and commentary with Helen Gissén in Ekot’s broadcast.

  • 497: No room for unnecessary fuss

    497: No room for unnecessary fuss

    Two Swedish football supporters were murdered in Brussels by an Islamist terrorist precisely because they were Swedes. How does the attack affect the government? And what does that mean for the dynamic between government and opposition? At the same time, the Tidö Agreement celebrates one year and the Moderates gather for a party meeting in…

  • Knarkligan i Umeå och gängens kamp om Norrland

    Knarkligan i Umeå och gängens kamp om Norrland

    Under 2022 har polisen en spaningsinsats mot narkotikan i Umeå. De riktar in sig på “Ibrahim” som de menar varit drivande i omfattande narkotikahandel och polisen tror också att det finns kopplingar till gängkriminalitet i Göteborg. Umeå har länge varit relativt förskonat från gängkriminalitet. Men mycket tyder på att det är en av flera städer…

  • Hanna Marklund

    Hanna Marklund

    She is the soccer player who became an expert commentator on television, and who was the first woman to commentate Hanna Marklund a men’s championship during the WC 2018. As a defender, she herself has played over a hundred national football matches for Sweden, won three SM golds and two Uefa Women’s Champions League titles…

  • The hunt for 100,000 new northerners

    The hunt for 100,000 new northerners

    Norra Norrland is the country of the future, say the politicians. Jubilant municipal councilors hope for growing towns, more families with children and new employers in the wake of industrial investments. Municipalities spend many millions on getting people to move to their municipality. Hear Ekot’s reporter in Umeå, Magdalena Martinssontell us about the future, the…

  • Puncture inflammation affects different cell types in the brain: A study

    Puncture inflammation affects different cell types in the brain: A study

    Umeå researchers have mapped how the TBE virus infects the brain, causing encephalitis. The researchers developed a method to three-dimensionally determine the location of viruses in the brains of mice and determine which specific parts of the brain have been infected with the TBE virus. The method is based on data obtained from image analyses,…

  • Important notice to the public in Berghem in Umeå municipality, Västerbotten county

    Important notice to the public in Berghem in Umeå municipality, Västerbotten county

    This week’s musical crossword puzzle. Complete the cross plan and compete for honor and great prizes. Every Saturday at 10.03 you can listen to Melodikrysset in P4.

  • Important notice to the public in Berghem in Umeå municipality, Västerbotten county

    Important notice to the public in Berghem in Umeå municipality, Västerbotten county

    The personal data of Swedish bank customers, patients and around one million pharmacy visitors has been leaked to Facebook via their Facebook Pixel tool. Conflict depicts how online tracking grew into a billion-dollar industry, seeks answers about what happened to the leaked data, and questions what politicians in Brussels are doing when health information has…

  • Mother of young children Annika’s fight against ALS

    Mother of young children Annika’s fight against ALS

    When Annika Andersson in Vilhelmina is 26 years old, she has just started her career, got pregnant and notices that something is wrong with her body. Her legs buckle and she falls down the stairs several times. After two years of commuting to experts in Umeå, she finally gets the news: She has ALS. She…

  • Right now: Swedish lead in the WC chase start

    Right now: Swedish lead in the WC chase start

    Sunday 12 February 13.15-14.00 approx EngineThe Swedish rally in Umeå (Selma Jennervall) 13.25 BiathlonWC – OberhofHunting start ladies (Bengt Skött, Alexander Lundholm, Isabell Gradin and Uschi Disl) Program manager: Johan Bengts

  • The region presents measures to reopen Lycksele BB

    The region presents measures to reopen Lycksele BB

    BB in Lycksele has been closed since 19 December due to staff shortages. Women in labor are referred to the maternity wards in Skellefteå and Umeå. This also applies to patients with acute gynecological conditions. Now Region Västerbotten presents measures to be able to open BB again.

  • Volunteer soldier – the Swede in Ukraine

    Volunteer soldier – the Swede in Ukraine

    When Russia invades Ukraine in February 2022, Tobias Enqvist from Holmsund in Umeå wants to help defend the country. He drops out of his sociology training and goes down to the war to help. At first he works as a paramedic but the weeks go by and Ukraine is losing. Tobias decides to join as…

  • The study finds new cellular component important for the sense of smell

    The study finds new cellular component important for the sense of smell

    Stockholm [Sweden], January 8 (ANI): In the nerve cells that our noses use to detect smell, researchers at Umeå University in Sweden have found a previously unidentified cell component called an organelle. The discovery may stimulate more studies of the COVID-19 symptom of poor smell perception. – A prerequisite for finding a treatment for impaired…

  • Researchers discover a new cell component with significance for the sense of smell

    Researchers discover a new cell component with significance for the sense of smell

    Stockholm [Sweden], January 4 (ANI): Researchers at Umeå University in Sweden have discovered a previously unknown cell component, an organelle, inside neurons that we use to perceive smell. The discovery could lead to more research into impaired sense of smell, which is a common symptom of covid-19. Researchers at Umeå University, Sweden, have discovered a…

  • Clara Lidstrom

    Clara Lidstrom

    Influencer who runs one of Sweden’s most read blogs where she writes about interior design, cooking, feminism and the environment. In the middle of her career, Clara Lidström suffered from exhaustion. She later wrote about this in the book “Hjälp jag är utmatad”. She has also published books about baking and growing. Clara Lidström is…

  • Olof Wretling

    Olof Wretling

    Audience favorite Olof Wretling makes his tenth Winter Program. Touring with the show “Kaffet”, which like “Diagnosersna i mitt liv” is based on his script from Winter in P1. Part of the Umeå-based comedy group Klungan and has created and participated in the radio program “Mamma’s new guy”. Has also been seen in “Bäst i…

  • Green light for Swedish railway tunnel construction by Spanish consortium – RailTech.com

    Green light for Swedish railway tunnel construction by Spanish consortium – RailTech.com

    The Spanish contractor Comsa in a consortium with Nortúnel SA will build the 1.6 kilometer long Ersmark tunnel in Sweden. After some delay due to appeals, the Swedish Transport Administration says the contract is green to be signed for the tunnel, which is part of the new Norrbottnis railway. The procurement of the tunnel construction…

  • This is how the war in Ukraine characterizes the UN climate meeting

    This is how the war in Ukraine characterizes the UN climate meeting

    The EU wants to continue to wear a global leadership shirt in climate work. In recent years, the Commission has put forward proposals for ambitious targets. The EU Commission wants to reduce the Union’s emissions by 55 percent by 2030 and further make the EU completely climate neutral by 2050. But at the UN climate…

  • Vote for your favorite art!  79 artists compete in the international NOBA Award competition

    Vote for your favorite art! 79 artists compete in the international NOBA Award competition

    The competition collects the best works of BA and MA graduates from five art academies (Estonian Academy of Arts, Pallas University of Applied Sciences, Latvian Academy of Arts, Vilnius Academy of Arts and Helsinki University of Art) on the NOBA.ac online platform, promotes the art academy. graduation shows and brings international attention to graduating students…

  • Walk, stroll or power walk?  – the importance of speed for health

    Walk, stroll or power walk? – the importance of speed for health

    In several studies, it has been possible to show that there is a connection between how fast someone walks and how long that person will live. Yngve Gustafson, senior professor of geriatrics, is behind one of those studies. – We have looked at people who are over 80 years old. Through the study we have…

  • Susan Dahl

    Susan Dahl

    Susan Dahl is a student chaplain at Umeå University’s campus. She is also a poet and writer, including as a columnist in Kyrkans Tidning. Her poetry debut was called “Vem så mig dån”, with pictures by Kent Wisti. Together they lead the podcast “Kinnamockaskogen,” a podcast at the intersection of culture, faith and society. In…

  • Macchiarini case and throats that kill

    Macchiarini case and throats that kill

    This week, P3 Crimea gives the full story of the Macchiarini scandal and explains why he was eventually convicted. We hear, among other things, his deceived ex-girlfriend Benita Alexander and the doctor and researcher Kjell Asplund who investigated the whole scandal. Can the law rule on fraudulent medical care? Participants: * Kjell Asplund, Professor Emeritus…

  • Sweaty worse!

    Sweaty worse!

    – I always tried to back off and say that I do not like to be hugged. And many people believe that I do not like closeness. So I had to drive on it, says Metha who suffers from excessive sweating, so-called hyperhidrosis. She is chairman of the patient association for hyperhidrosis and likes to…

  • Swedish fast track to NATO, wedding wave in Kyiv and how are you (S) this 1 May?

    Swedish fast track to NATO, wedding wave in Kyiv and how are you (S) this 1 May?

    How is the Social Democrats? The Social Democrats have had core group voters since the 1960s and are not the large organization they once were, he says Jonas Hinnfors, Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Now, in a one-party government, the Social Democrats are freer and can focus on issues that suit…