islendingabok

App lets Icelanders know if they're about to bjork a cousin

At just 320,000, Iceland's population is tiny -- and apparently that can be a real problem, since, as every Icelandic native is descended from the same family tree, everyone is related to everyone else.

Luckily, there's enough distance between most people so that inbreeding isn't a serious concern, but it seems that enough Icelanders end up in bed with their cousins without knowing it for it to be a bit of a problem. So much of a problem, in fact, that in 2010, the Islendingabok (book of Icelanders) Web site was launched, containing a database of … Read more