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Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

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Dec 20, 2025
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“Swedes are getting dumber; Sweden’s average IQ has fallen for nine years and no one knows why.”

Claims that “Swedes are getting dumber” rest on a shaky mix of partial data, contested international rankings, and long‑running research on a so‑called reverse Flynn effect in Scandinavia; serious aca...

Dec 18, 2025
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what sexual orientation population has the least divorce

A consistent pattern in the research reviewed is that male same-sex (gay) marriages tend to have the lowest divorce rates, while female same-sex (lesbian) marriages show the highest dissolution risk; ...

Nov 18, 2025
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Most racist countries

Different rankings and surveys produce conflicting lists of “most racist” countries because the question depends on definitions, methods and which attribute is measured; some recent global surveys and...

Jan 25, 2026

Which European countries saw the biggest right‑wing gains in the last decade and why?

Across the last decade the clearest in Europe occurred in and , with major advances also visible in , , and ; these parties have converted protest votes into governing power, coalition leverage, or su...

Dec 19, 2025

What chance of European/Russian war?

The immediate risk of a direct all‑out war between Russia and the collective of European states remains limited but non‑negligible: most expert forecasting and intelligence products see a higher proba...

Jan 26, 2026

what countries have the thickest girths

A clear, authoritative ranking of which countries have the “” (average penile circumference) is fragile because public lists rely on mixed methods——but multiple compilations identify a handful of cons...

Nov 7, 2025

Which countries have implemented democratic socialist policies and when?

Democratic socialist policies have been implemented in many countries at different times and with varying aims, most commonly as and as episodic leftist governments or movements elsewhere; lists of co...

Jan 26, 2026

How did democratic socialism and social democracy develop historically in Europe?

Democratic socialism and social democracy emerged from 19th-century socialist critiques of industrial capitalism and evolved along divergent paths in response to political realities in Europe: kept th...

Jan 15, 2026

How do divorce initiation rates (who files) differ by gender and orientation in same-sex and opposite-sex marriages?

Across multiple studies and national statistics, women—whether in opposite-sex marriages or same-sex (lesbian) marriages—are more likely to initiate divorce than men, and lesbian marriages have repeat...

Nov 6, 2025

What are widely agreed historical examples of socialism achieving stated goals?

The materials assembled show that socialist policies or movements have achieved stated goals in varied settings: municipal socialism in Milwaukee, social-democratic states in Scandinavia, Bolivia unde...

Jan 27, 2026

How have Anglo‑Saxon and Viking migrations affected the distribution of U106/L48 lineages in Britain?

show that during the early Middle Ages left a measurable northern‑continental autosomal signal in , concentrated in eastern and southern , and that associated with Germanic and n source populations — ...

Jan 26, 2026

R1b-Z9, or R-Z9 halogroup where does it come from ? is it germanic ?

(also written R‑Z19 in some trees) is a downstream branch of the R1b (R‑M343) paternal Y‑DNA lineage that sits within the U106/L48 sector of R1b, a lineage long associated with northwestern ; many inv...

Jan 26, 2026

R1b1a1b1a1a1c2b2 is this subclade germanic, celtc or something else

The terminal SNP label cannot be cleanly equated to “Germanic” or “Celtic” in the way everyday language treats those terms, because R1b is a deep paternal lineage that split into many subclades long b...

Jan 23, 2026

How and why did members of the Trump family describe their ancestry as Swedish in mid‑20th century interviews?

For much of the mid‑20th century members of the Trump family — most notably and later his son — presented a n or “” origin for the family, a portrayal rooted in deliberate obfuscation of a German past...

Nov 7, 2025

When did 'democratic socialist' become a political label in Western parties?

The label , rooted in earlier Chartist and utopian socialist currents but formalized as parties and international organizations formed around socialist-democratic agendas. Contemporary accounts disagr...

Feb 1, 2026

When did the word 'fuck' first appear in written English, and what are the earliest citations?

appears in the written English record at least as early as the early 16th century, with multiple independent citations scholars routinely point to from the 1500s and late 1400s; more recent archival w...

Nov 3, 2025

How do Scandinavian countries rehabilitate sex offenders, and does their treatment work?

Scandinavian programs — exemplified by Sweden’s SEIF — deliver mixes of group and individual treatment and report reductions in measured criminogenic needs and hypersexuality in pilots, but rigorous e...

Feb 7, 2026

Coach Mike Sholars is well known

is best known within the semi‑professional and European American‑football circuits for a string of international coaching successes presented on his official site and in niche football media: multiple...

Feb 3, 2026

Fuck

The word whose core meaning concerns sexual intercourse but which has, over centuries, expanded into dozens of grammatical roles and pragmatic uses — from expletive to intensifier to insult . Its reco...

Jan 31, 2026

What economic and social indicators change after a country adopts democratic socialist policies?

Countries that adopt policies commonly labeled “” tend to show clearer, faster changes in social indicators—expanded universal health care, broader education access, and lower measured inequality—whil...