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Iceland Needs A Website To Avoid Incest

5:20AM February 7, 2012 | Sam Biddle

When your society has inhabited a small, remote island for countless generations and boasts a population of only 300,000, the odds of having sex with a relative are significant. Luckily, Icelanders now have a handy tool to avoid family sex. More »

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This Time Lapse Proves You Should Be In Iceland Right Now

3:00AM October 20, 2011 | Brian Barrett

I’ve never been to Iceland. Had never planned to visit, really, until I saw this stunning time-lapse of the land of the midnight sun. Now I’m dreaming of having my morning coffee on sun-kissed ice block this side of nowhere. More »

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Geyser Strokkur Showing Fire Inside Water Before Eruption

1:00AM September 7, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

This beautiful photo by Tatyana Kildisheva shows a surreal scene: fire inside water. She captured the Icelandic geyser Strokkur just one second before it erupted. How did she do it? Easy, she told me: More »

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Icelanders Write The First Web Constitution, Trolls Surprisingly Get No Amendments

4:00AM July 31, 2011 | Kwame Opam

After what I’m sure was an enormous editorial process, Iceland finally finished drafting their constitution, the first ever to be written on the internet. And I am shocked to see that there is nary a dick pic in sight. More »

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Iceland’s Letting Its Facebook Users Help Write Their New Constitution

2:40PM June 17, 2011 | Sam Biddle

What could possibly go wrong here! Facebook, the same place where people drunkenly message their exes and solicit assassins, is now going to birth Iceland’s next constitution. The government wants user feedback while they make a new one. Prudent. More »

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The Building Is A Giant Glistening Glass Fish

2:00PM May 24, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Reykjavik, Iceland is getting a new concert hall. And it looks like Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. Only… for music! The Harpa Concert Hall, modeled after Icelandic basalt crystals, is composed of thousands of glass scales, gleaming and colorful. More »

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The Most Mesmerising Video Of An Exploding Volcano

11:40AM May 24, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

Smoke, lightning, clouds, dramatic score, volcano. It’s not the opening of Lord of the Rings – it’s an amazing video of the Icelandic volcano Grímsvötn erupting, shot by Jon Gustafsson. More »

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Watch Iceland’s Volcano Explode From Space

3:00AM May 24, 2011 | Casey Chan

The world didn’t break out in earthquakes but Grímsvötn, a volcano in Iceland, exploded over the weekend. The volcano sent a plume of ash and smoke nearly 8 miles high. Um, that’s so huge you can see it from space. More »

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This Must Be Where Superman Was Born

7:00AM May 18, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Krypton. You may think it’s in a remote galaxy, but no, it’s right here, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. A place that I like to call “That Island Where Björk and Eyjafjallajökull the Dragon Live” and other people call Iceland. More »

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Who Put This 1000-Ton Boulder Here?

2:20AM November 30, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

That’s not a tiny man. That boulder – shot by Icelandic photographer, volcano adventurer and overall awesome guy Ragnar Sigurdsson – stands 15m high, weighs about 1000 tons, and it wasn’t there a few days ago. Who put it there? More »