Scandinavia

Mm-hmm.

You know, in Scandinavia, you self-select your lessons, so kids go to the lessons where they're most gifted.

Coders go to coding, linguists go to language, and they've got a much happier nation-

Mm

Too upper

... out there in Scandinavia where you're, like, upper Norway or upper Sweden-

Like Norway, no

... upper Finland.

No, and there's such a body of research coming through.

I was listening to a podcast about research that's just been done in Scandinavia around changing sand pits to mud pits.

Right, okay.

And they've just, yeah, replaced all the sand pits with mud pits and they've actually tracked the children's blood and they've done like, sampled the impact on the gut and how to improve their gut health and their immunity.

And it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

in May 2000, and then was released in September 2000 in Scandinavia and the UK.

They waited until October 2000 for the US release.

It stars Björk, as far as I'm concerned.

She looked past me to something none of us could see.

Second team this week, isn't it? Her accent was Scandinavian, voice rasped from dehydration.

I knelt, and she flinched back.

Name.

I might be, I might be off.

It's somewhere in Scandinavia, [laughs] I'm sure of that.

However, Matthew, where is Kyle situated and what does Kyle do for a living?

So Kyle is, um, he actually is in Scandinavia.

Okay.

Whereabouts?

Um, all over in Scandinavia.

Oh, all over.

Other visitors have seen the figure but only late at night and describe it as having a truly menacing aura.

Could this presence be a manifestation of the Black Death itself? Scandinavian ghost stories tell of an eerie figure, Pesta, the personification of the Black Death itself.

This hideous, shriveled figure appears at houses touched by the disease.

If she carries a rake, some family members may survive.

Between these three extremes, we've got biomes that require more or less water combined with highish or lowish temperatures.

These are your moderate or temperate biomes, and they include temperate grasslands like you find in the North American prairie, or temperate deciduous forests found over much of Europe and North America, and taigas or coniferous forests found across Canada, much of northern Russia and Scandinavia.

So of all these biomes in the middle experience pretty moderate temperatures most of the time, the availability of water

must be what makes them different from each

It sort of went out the window probably in the late 80s after intense pressure from Lynx and Greenpeace and the Animal Liberation Front and various other groups.

So it's easy to think that fur just isn't a thing anywhere anymore, but it's actually very, very big in places like the Scandinavian countries in Russia and Eastern Europe, where it's much colder and they have a longer tradition of wearing fur coats.

So if you walk around the streets of, say, Kiev or Moscow or somewhere, loads of people are wearing fur.

So I think it's very interesting that there's a discussion going on at the moment about it, and there's a good chance that we would see it being banned in the European Union at some point in the near future, which would be great.