Energiapeli :: Fortum. 18 reasons why Nordic countries are better than yours. 1. Surreal natural beauty Let's start with the most in-your-face: Aurora Borealis. Norway's fjords. That mouthful of a volcano, Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull. Nordic countries are the place to go for a jaw-dropping experience of the sublime. 2. (Sven Nackstrand/AFP/Getty Images) The Nordic countries pretty much win the food Olympics for healthiness, affordability, quality and quantity of food available to folks who live there. 3. Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland all have high levels of female representation in their parliaments. How did the Nordic countries come so far? 4. (Transparency International) Denmark is tied for first in Transparency International's corruption index (first is good), and the rest of the Nordic countries aren't far behind. 5. (Jonathan Nackstrand/Getty) Nordic countries have some of the most progressive parental leave policies out there.
Norway introduced shared parental leave in 1977 and was the first to establish a quota for fathers in 1993. 6. 7. 8. 9. Ve. Jääkausi Suomessa flashcards. File_download. Korkea kohtaa matalan » Merenkurkun saaristo. Satellite Video Shows All the Weather of 2013 - By John Metcalfe, The Atlantic Cities Every major storm and natural calamity is represented in this eight-minute video that the satellite agency released yesterday, from America's droughts to Europe's hurricane-force winds to the Philippine's devastating Typhoon Haiyan. Credit EUMETSAT for squeezing 2013's entire load of weather into a pill we can easily consume. Every major storm and natural calamity is represented in this eight-minute video that the satellite agency released yesterday, from America's droughts to Europe's hurricane-force winds to the Philippine's devastating Typhoon Haiyan. The folks at EUMETSAT took infrared images for every day of the year and superimposed them over NASA's famous high-res image series, the "Blue Marble.
" Defined traffic patterns quickly emerge: jet streams pushing a series of storms from west to east, and a solid line of towering systems that's constantly forming and dissolving near the Equator. Watch the video here, or click the image below: