Greenhouse gas emissions, energy demand and land use associated with omnivorous, pesco-vegetarian, vegetarian, and vegan diets accounting for farming practices.
You don't have to read everything in this 28-page scientific paper. The highlights and the abstract at ScienceDirect will give you plenty of information!
Finland ready to inoculate younger age groups as vaccine deliveries rise. Larger deliveries will allow vaccination of younger age groups to begin while older groups get their booster jabs. YLE
Saimaa seal live stream closes early after location discovered. WWF Finland said the cessation of the popular webcast was brought forward as a precautionary measure. YLE
The 7 types of rest that every person needs. IDEAS.TED.COM
Masks have given some an unexpected reprieve from social expectations in addition to helping people avoid everything from colds to Covid-19. NBCNews (video+text)
World Bee Day (May 20th): National Geographic1, National Geographic2, CNN, UN, Gravitas (video)
A really simple guide to Finland's 2021 local elections. YLE
Yle's election compass out now. YLE #vaalikone #kuntavaalit
Tycho Brahe: The Astronomer With A Drunken Moose. Mentalfloss.com
Girl Is Confused About Why Female Clothes Cost More On Animal Crossing, Asks Nintendo For An Explanation. "It’s not just a mere coincidence that pink razors and women’s deodorant cost slightly more than men’s, or that they have a little less product in the container. The phenomenon is known as the pink tax, a pervasive problem that crosses multiple product markets and starts from an early age." boredpanda.com
May The 4th Be With You: 10 Best Ways To Celebrate Star Wars Day. Screenrant.com
GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOSQUITOS: BIOHACKING FOR DISEASE PREVENTION. Hackaday.com
How Pixar Uses Hyper-Colors to Hack Your Brain. The animation studio’s artists are masters at tweaking light and color to trigger deep emotional responses. Coming soon: effects you’ll only see inside your head. Wired.com
The Covid-19 hospital in India so bad patients want to get out. CNN.com
Who can get the Covid-19 vaccine? An article by the NHS (the British National Health Service)
Finland’s nursing shortage leads to decrease in hospital beds. Helsinki Times
Why do we read? What's the point of reading critically. Crash course English literature. Video, 7min
Why do we tell stories? Video, 5min
100 solutions to reverse global warming. TED talk, 17 min
Weather makes driving in Finland challenging. Helsinki Times
PromoteEquality on Twitter & an article based on this in helsingin Sanomat
Bee population steady in Dutch cities thanks to pollinator strategy. Scheme involving bee hotels and bee stops reaps rewards as census shows no strong decline in urban population. The Guardian
Eight people from around the world got a crash course in the U.S. health care system. Their reaction? Astonishment, horror, anger and disgust. Video, 6 min
There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing. NYTimes
COVID-19 has reshaped the future of work in ways that will endure long after the pandemic ends. In a new report, the McKinsey Global Institute identifies three broad consumer and business trends that will have a lasting impact on workers and work, even after the pandemic. Video, 2.30 min
'Let children play': the educational message from across Europe. The Guardian
Study says music taste is related to how empathetic you are. Ludwig van Toronto
Mamil/MAMIL (middle-aged men in lycra). Video, 2.30min
Do the environmental literary quiz by Earthday.org
Everest through the eyes of a Sherpa: 'Climbers need to wake up.' BBC News
If you enjoy poetry, watch this animation in which the poet and novelist Wendell Berry narrates his poem The Peace of Wild Things, a Walden-esque ode to the wisdom, calming influence, and restorative qualities of the natural world. Thekidsshouldseethis.com
Could adopting a sustainable lifestyle be a solution for climate change? Janne Utriainen, his wife and four daughters are tackling climate change in their own way: they’ve moved to a remote location in northern Lapland where they live off the land: they fish, hunt, pick berries, keep sheep and chickens and grow some vegetables. BBC News Video 3.40min
Your guide to not getting murdered in a quaint English village. Crimereads.com
What do we mean when we talk about vaccine efficacy and why ’the best vaccine at the moment is any of these vaccines offered to you’. Why you can't compare Covid-19 vaccines. Video 7min
♪ Give Us the Vax! (The Vaccination Song) ♪ =D
The most famous dysfunctional family of 1990s television enjoyed, by today’s standards, an almost dreamily secure existence that now seems out of reach for all too many Americans. I refer, of course, to the Simpsons. The Atlantic
Covid-19: More than 20 million in UK have had first jab. BBC News (Note - naturally, the info in this article is outdated, but take note of the vocabulary!
Who needs a treadmill? Shoeless runners trek through snow in Finland. NYPOST.com