Tag Archives: summer

Five Reasons To Visit Tartu

Five ideas for your days off in Tartu Continue reading

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Summer Interview with Top Ecologist Aveliina Helm

Read a summer interview with the top ecologist Aveliina Helm. Continue reading

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Deceleration

July is the month of deceleration: everyone is on vacation, many businesses close down, and newspapers have a hard time inventing news. Life becomes slower and… happier. How to extend July? Continue reading

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Estonians Don’t Get Enough Vitamin D

Even at the end of the summer season, one third of Estonians have too little vitamin D in their bodies. According to the doctoral thesis which Mart Kull defended at the University of Tartu’s Faculty of Medicine, this is most severe during the winter, when 73% of the Estonian population has less vitamin D than required and 8% suffers from complete vitamin deficiency. Continue reading

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