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The Finnish company doesn’t even make phones anymore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
Speaking at 2025’s 3rd Finnish Interdisciplinary Conference on Psychedelics, Dr. Kangaslampi laid out the 6 open questions that should drive future studies of psychedelics and memory experiences, particularly the recall of traumatic events.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
Goetz noted that when the Finnish president visited the White House in October, quantum technology was at the very top of the agenda.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
This year’s music director, the eminent Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, is himself a festival alumnus, having already held the job in 1999 and 2001.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
He was particularly taken with a book entitled The Myth of Progress, by Georg Henrik von Wright, a Finnish philosopher and successor to Ludwig Wittgenstein at the University of Cambridge.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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