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The bliss of woodcutting
Finns describe life at the summer cottage a lived-in romance
When can I just be my no frills self? When can I realise my desires and physical nature that have been pushed aside? Contemplate what I really want from life? READ MORE

A solution that hid in the bog
Biodegradable cotton grass fibre absorbs oil pollution from the sea
The first thing about oil spills that comes to mind for many are pictures of birds drenched in the black stuff. We feel that the dreaded gunge means death to all living things. Yet there are microbes in the soil, water and even ice that thrive on eating oil. READ MORE

An interpreter of Maya culture
Harri Kettunen’s discoveries include a hitherto unknown Maya city. The best ideas come to him at four in the morning, studying hieroglyphs at home in Virenoja. READ MORE

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Les secrets de l’histoire dans un faisceau d’ions READ

Creating a new standard READ

Heralds of science READ

Jane Austen forever READ

To live and learn READ

Heikki Räisänen receives the Gad Rausing Prize READ

Ladies and gentlemen of Canterbury READ

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Universitas Helsingiensis is the quarterly of the University of Helsinki.
ISSN 1239-355X
Editor in Chief Soila Kaivanto-Juhola

Summer issue 2006