Coping in Copenhagen: Murky water, cyber safety and quantum investments

Join comedians and writers Abby, Owen and Marius every Friday as they pick through the week’s headlines and swap notes on life in the capital.

Photo: Coping in Copenhagen

On this Fridays episode:

While Novo Nordisk value surpasses the Danish GDP, the company looks to Denmark’s physicists to invest in the future.

Meanwhile, a hacker is sentenced to 6 years in the largest criminal case in Finnish history.

And Cheminova and Magnus Heunicke find themselves in hot water over dirty dumping.

(That headline’s good enough for the NY Post!)

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