Not just books - how renting a sewing machine from the library can improve democracy 19.4%
BBC Future - By Erika Benke - 6/20/2026, 10:00 AM
Anecdotal 18.4% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 12.4% - Confirmation Bias 11.7%
On a freezing January morning in Helsinki, around 20 people gather outside Oodi, the city's central library, waiting for the doors to open. "I have tears in my eyes when I see people almost run into the building at 08:00, heading straight to their favourite spots," says Katri Vänttinen, director of library services for the whole of the... more