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Just a reminder

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Scott Ritcher 29 August 2011 Featured / How people act / Music / Sweden is different than America

Not throwing bags of garbage off the balcony may seem like an obvious courtesy to most people. Not making hip-hop records if you’re Swedish should also be so clear.

Princess Preggers!

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Scott Ritcher 23 August 2011 Featured / How people act / Sweden / Swedish Royal Family

The wheels have been ready to fly off the tabloids in Sweden over the past week, on the news that the crown princess has a little majesty in the oven.

The 18 and Over Airline

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Scott Ritcher 27 July 2011 Featured / How people act

We’ve gotten rid of smoking in public places, isn’t it about time we put an end to the smashing of crackers and shrieks of death?

No more babies on airplanes

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Scott Ritcher 26 July 2011 Featured

Am I cursed? Apparently someone at Norwegian Airlines read my last article about how I think babies should […]

Babies, too, must travel in airplanes

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Scott Ritcher 26 July 2011 Featured

According to some readers, babies have important travel requirements, making it necessary for us to listen to them scream in airplanes.

Life is so hard. Why me? Oh God, why me?

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Scott Ritcher 7 July 2011 Featured / How people act / Music / Stoopid

As you know, Wikipedia pages are written by unbiased third parties and highly-accredited investigative journalists.

Tex-Mex food, Swedish style

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Scott Ritcher 14 June 2011 Featured / Food+Drink / Pictures! / Sweden is different than America

On behalf of the Internet, I would like to apologize to any Mexicans or Texans (or Texicans) who have the misfortune to view this reprehensible photograph.

I’m Still Here

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Scott Ritcher 22 May 2011 Featured / How people act

In America, the popularity of the “party film” concept has been growing steadily, but it hasn’t quite made its way to Sweden.

Historic A-hole August Strindberg

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Scott Ritcher 22 April 2011 Featured / How people act / Stoopid / Sweden

August Strindberg’s work as a playwright was so groundbreaking that it made him one of Sweden’s most famous anti-Semites and male chavinist pigs.

What is your egg-cracking strategy?

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Scott Ritcher 12 April 2011 Featured / Food+Drink / How people act

Despite decades of scrambling eggs, I have only gotten marginally better at cracking them without making a mess. But I’m way better than Elizabeth Taylor was.

Säkert! in 3D

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Scott Ritcher 31 March 2011 Featured / Music / Pictures! / Sweden / Technology

I never thought I’d get to see Säkert perform live, but it finally happened. Better yet, you can see some highlights here in 3D.

The Love Affair Between Cats and iPads

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Scott Ritcher 8 February 2011 Apple / Featured / Stoopid / Technology

When new technology hits the market, little attention is paid to how such advancements will affect cats.

Wikileaks: No Alarms, No Surprises

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Scott Ritcher 26 December 2010 Featured / Sweden / Technology

“These documents don’t so much announce anything new as they do confirm everything we have always suspected.”

Badminton is a Real Sport

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Scott Ritcher 30 November 2010 Featured / Sweden

Am I the only one who is uncomfortable around naked old men? Oh, everybody is? Cool. That’s what I thought.

The Devil Wears Merona

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Scott Ritcher 23 November 2010 Featured / Sweden / Weather

There’s a popular saying in Sweden. “Det finns inga dåliga väder, bara dåliga kläder,” which, although it doesn’t […]

Welcome to Sweden

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Scott Ritcher 25 October 2010 Featured / Immigration / Sweden / Weather

A couple Tuesdays ago, I visited Skatteverket (the Swedish tax office) to apply for my personnummer. The personnummer […]

The Immigrant

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Scott Ritcher 17 September 2010 Featured / Immigration / Louisville / Sweden / Swedish Royal Family / Weather

A lot of what makes for good writing is having the time to write. After spending most of […]

Block This Application: Life After Social Networking

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Scott Ritcher 21 May 2010 Featured / How people act / Technology

The Internet has really screwed up how people interact with each other. While it has made people much easier to find, it has also made people harder to lose.

Sigvard Bernadotte: Design Prince of Sweden

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Scott Ritcher 26 April 2010 Design / Featured / Sweden / Swedish Royal Family

Part 2 of 2 on the life of Sigvard Bernadotte. See the earlier story of his battle to […]

The Word on the Street (and why it isn’t “sorry”)

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Scott Ritcher 18 February 2010 Featured / How people act / Language / Sweden

Thoughts on honorifics and the prevalence of casual conversation.

Malmö’s Turning Torso

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Scott Ritcher 1 February 2010 Architecture / Design / Featured / Sweden / Technology

For decades, Malmö was easily recognized by the image of a monstrous, seaside gantry crane. When plans were announced to remove it in the 1990’s, a movement began to establish a new icon for the city, resulting in this unique, twisting, 54-story skyscraper.

James B. Irwin Was the Eighth Man to Walk On the Moon

James Irwin
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Scott Ritcher 26 January 2010 Featured / Space / Stoopid / Technology

From K Composite Magazine (2000) James B. Irwin Was the Eighth Man to Walk On the Moon: The […]

Alternate Reality Check

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Scott Ritcher 21 January 2010 Architecture / Design / Featured / Food+Drink / Immigration / Louisville / Sweden / Transit

Is this thing on? Can you hear me? Testing, testing… Today’s report is being broadcast to you all […]

The Would-Be King is Dead. God Save the Man Who Would Have Been King.

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Scott Ritcher 23 December 2009 Design / Featured / Sweden / Swedish Royal Family

To tantalize their readers, some writers would need to concoct an absurd and elaborate fictitious story about a […]

I want to write a song

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Scott Ritcher 30 November 2009 Featured / How people act / Sweden

The challenge of songwriting amid the collapse of the music industry

Karlaplan

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Scott Ritcher 9 November 2009 Architecture / Design / Featured / Sweden / Transit

Karlaplan is a picturesque area of Stockholm on the island of ֖stermalm where five major streets meet to […]

Secret Code: Are Swedes trying to keep Swedish to themselves?

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Scott Ritcher 4 November 2009 Featured / How people act / Immigration / Language / Sweden

As I’ve mentioned many times, most Swedish people speak perfect English and they love doing it. It’s the […]

Halloween in Sweden

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Scott Ritcher 27 October 2009 Featured / How people act / Language / Sweden

Grab a warm sweater or safe blanket and sit thee down fore thine flickering computer screens, dear friends, […]

The Idea of North

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Scott Ritcher 26 October 2009 Charts+Graphs / Featured / Sweden / Weather

It’s beginning to get cold in Sweden. The first snow of the season, however fleeting, already happened a […]

Bunny Power!

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Scott Ritcher 22 October 2009 Featured / Sweden / Sweden is different than America

Sweden may have just taken a major step toward ousting Japan as the cutest country in the world. […]

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