Sleepless in Saillon Sleepless in Switzerland: 'Zero star hotel' room is a real bummer Rusty Blazenhoff

rent Woman rents tent on her Zürich balcony for $540 a month Mark Frauenfelder

bathtub This golden bathtub on rails is bonkers Rusty Blazenhoff

cognitive dancing Electronic "dance" game gives dementia researchers hope for treatment Kevin Reome

trailer park What a trailer park looks like in Switzerland Claudia Dawson

ace hardware Bodum coffee grinder handle hack Kevin Reome

axis of avoidance The UK grew rich by looting the world; now it launders billions for other looters Cory Doctorow

caffeine Swiss government declares that coffee is not essential for survival David Pescovitz

swiss post A critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong with e-voting, security practice, and auditing firms Cory Doctorow

schadenfinance France fines UBS €3.7b for helping rich French residents launder more than €10b Cory Doctorow

world economic forum Trump White House cancels Davos trip for World Economic Forum Xeni Jardin

mudslide Insane mudslide caught on video in Switzerland Andrea James

cowbell Hatred of cowbells is grounds for denial of Swiss passports Andrea James

human subjects Survey: 23 percent of Zurich doctors prescribe homeopathy, but many of them believe it to be a placebo Cory Doctorow

eel Watch this robotic eel swim about measuring water pollution Andrea James

alps Watch people whiz down this steep Swiss alpine slide Andrea James

direct democracy and its discontents An absurd and awful moment in Switzerland's legendarily bonkers citizenship process Cory Doctorow

syntetic biology Artist in residence sought for Bioprocess Labratory in Zurich Cory Doctorow

slow down Slow TV: spend an hour on this Swiss mountain rail line Andrea James

Chip the glasses and crack the plates! "Anger Release Machine": a coin-op for shattering fine breakables Cory Doctorow