Young Boys’ Use of Psychopharmaceuticals on the Rise
More than eight percent of Icelandic boys take medicine for neurological and psychological ailments on a daily basis. This is revealed in a new report by Welfare Watch, an initiative of the Ministry of Welfare.

(Not) Breaking News

A Playboy model, Progressive Party in trouble and a bad hair day.

Biggest Listing Ever in Iceland
Seven companies have asked to be listed on the NASDAQ OMX in Reykjavík, in one of the biggest privatization plans in the country’s history. All seven companies are owned, at least in part, by Landsbanki Íslands, which the Government of Iceland owns 81 percent.

More Power to the People
Landsvirkjun accounts for 75 percent of total electricity production in Iceland; in the year 2010 production reached 12,625 GWh.  Climate change and the resulting increase in temperatures are expected to lead to a significant increase in the flow of glacial rivers in the years to come.

Kaupthing’s Top Dogs Charged with Criminal Activity
The Special Prosecutors’ Office has filed charges in the so-called Al-Thani case, which pertains to the purchase of a five percent share in Kaupthing Bank in late September 2008, merely two weeks before the banking system’s collapse.

A Sense of Snow (IRB)
Snow is snow is snow. One way of coping with it is to try to ignore it, but I think we should play with it more.

Ash Wednesday is Today!
Öskudagur, literally: Ash Day, is in many ways Iceland’s answer to Halloween.

Better to Build Up Euro than ISK?

Journalist Richard Barley asks in today’s Wall Street Journal: Who has had the better crisis: Ireland or Iceland?

RE: Missing Noses Found

Surgeries to Remove Faulty Breast Implants Begin
Yesterday, surgeries to remove PIP breast implants began at the Landspítali University Hospital.