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Outside Society. Politicians claim unemployment is historically low. Yet, one in six young adults stands without a job or education. Both facts are true. That is precisely the problem. Do you see them – or have you learned that they don't exist? Photo: Gemini The official statistics claim that unemployment hovers around a comfortable 2 percent. This figure is repeated like a mantra, a collective sedative assuring us that everything is fine. The labor market is strong. The economy is solid. Most people stop listening there. After all, 2 percent sounds like full employment. The problem is that this number is being given a meaning it never had, and was never intended to have. What the authorities measure when they talk about "unemployment" is specific: People who are currently without a job, actively searching, and registered in the system right now. It is a snapshot of a small, defined group. It tells us about short-term economic fluctuations, but almost nothing about the r...

When food is no longer made for people. Is it even possible to find healthy food at a reasonable price anymore, or has the industry fooled us all? That’s the brutal question I’ve been grappling with over the past year.

Yet We Fear the Natural Amount of Vitamin D In early February 2025, a bizarre food scandal rocked Norway—what locals dubbed "the egg scandal." A major agricultural supplier accidentally delivered feed laced with extreme levels of vitamin D to chickens and pigs in a central region of the country. The result? Eggs containing up to 300 micrograms (12,000 IU) of vitamin D each—enough to send food safety authorities into a tailspin.