The Eurovision Song Contest enjoys a healthy popularity and it is more kitsch than ever. Last year there were more than eight million votes (either by phone call or SMS) […]
The tigress of the world
Prima donna of the Grand Opera in Paris Aino Achté was born in Helsinki on the 23rd of April 1876 to Emmy and Niklas Achté. The Achtés were talented […]
Play your part!
Making films inside videogames has been a growing trend since the advent of 3D games in the '90s. Quake was the first videogame to give freedom and powerful resources to […]
Am I just a CC for you?
Is always sending e-mails an innocent action aimed at providing and exchanging information among co-workers? Answers to that question have recently been published in interesting study by Karianne Skovholt, who […]
A postindustrial fairytale
By the end of the eighties the industrial production had moved out of the area. Ruoholahti was rebuilt into a residential area and City of Helsinki planned to demolish the […]
The new Noah’s ark is in Norway
The vault will consist mainly of a chamber excavated 120 meters inside a rock. The location has been carefully chosen in a mountain 130 metres above sea level, so the […]
The man who conquered the land of fire
In 1953, geologist Väinö Auer returned to Finland from Argentina, the land where he made most of his expeditions and discoveries. At that time, he was already very pessimistic about […]
Porn is in the air
Maybe names such as Laura, Mr Lothar, Eve X, Rakel Leikki, Mariah or Henry Saari do not ring a bell to you… or maybe they do. Undoubtedly, porn and sex […]
The line of democracy
The red line is a symbol of democracy. On the 15th and 16th of March of 1907, every citizen in Finland aged 24 and over was able to go to […]
Is Gaia angry at us?
You have probably heard about the Gaia Theory, whose name was given by the famous writer William Golding, but who is the man behind it? His name is Lovelock, James […]
Meet Mr. Finland – the czar’s swedish-speaking spy
Baron Mannerheim is the man without whom Finland might have wasted decades as part of the Soviet Union. He is the only man ever to be named Field Marshal of […]
The subversive scientist?
Scrooge McDuck or Uncle Scrooge may be a comic book character, but (Nils) Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1832-1901) is a very real historical figure. Born in Helsinki, on Bulevardi 5, Nordenskiöld […]
Hurraa for children!
The minimum age for audience members for one of the productions premiering at the festival couldn't be much lower: crawling and walking age children. Working group Anttonen, Nuotio, Davies offers […]
Finnish design all around you
Finnish design has reached all kind of levels in our everyday life. You can see it in the latest model of mobile phone, or carried in the form of a […]