Swedes

Alexander Skarsgård is an embarrassing creep who tries to coerce women into partying naked with him in hotel suites. Or so it would seem from the version of himself that he played last year in Donald Glover’s comedy Atlanta. “I’m not saying that I dance around in a leopard-print thong in front of girls I don’t know,” he says. “But I’m also not saying that I don’t. That kind of thing works really well when there’s a kernel of truth in it.”This twinkling, teasing playfulness represents the default setting of the 46-year-old…

Yearly earnings and disposable income by age, for men and women across time. Both earnings and disposable income increase greatly with increasing age and over time, consistent with the strong GDP per capita growth over the period (except during a recession in the early 1990s). This income growth is much stronger for women than for men. The measure of accumulated income is the life-course movement of a member of a cohort across the diagonals. Credit:…

Divers Patrik Hoglund and Jim Hansson, right, marine archaeologists at Vrak – Museum of Wrecks hold a piece of wood from the found shipwreck The Apple in Stockholm, Sweden, Monday, Oct. 24, 2022. Credit: Jonas Ekströmer/TT News Agency via AP Marine archaeologists in Sweden say they have found the sister vessel of a famed 17th century warship that sank on its maiden voyage and is now on display in a popular Stockholm museum.…

Stockholm-headquartered renewable energy developer OX2 has signed letters of intent with Swedish edible seaweed companies Nordic SeaFarm and KOBB to explore the possibility of seaweed farming at one of OX2’s offshore wind farms. Seaweed and offshore wind OX2’s Galatea-Galene huge 1.7 gigawatt offshore wind farm will be sited off Halland, a county on the western coast of Sweden. It’s named after two Greek sea nymphs, Galatea and Galene, and consists of two sub-areas around 15.5 miles (25 km) outside the cities of…