When you start mentioning laser guns, it’s easy to think Star Wars. But the technology has been around for years,…
Read MoreWant to be a Viking? Go study in Norway
They might have a bad reputation for sacking villages in Ireland or any place their longboats could reach, but the…
Read MoreNorway’s zero gravity seedlings
Films like “The Martian” have caught our imagination, and NASA is well ahead, developing the Orion program, with the stated…
Read MoreMaking THAT call to Nobel Peace Prize winners
For 25 years Geir Lundestad served as permanent secretary to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. One of his jobs was to…
Read MoreSyrian refugees “welcome in Svalbard”
A local chapter of the Norwegian Green Party on the remote Arctic island of Svalbard have suggested Syrian refugees could…
Read MoreKremlin upset as Russia invades Norway… on TV
A new TV series to be aired later in September on Norwegian TV2 has angered Russian authorities because it depicts…
Read MoreUtoya reopens four years after massacre
Norwegian youths have been returning to Utoya island for the first summer camp since the deadly attacks by right-wing terrorist…
Read MoreOslo’s Kooperativet – the radio version
Here’s a radio version of my original piece from Monocle Magazine about a group of organic food enthusiasts in Norway’s…
Read More“Evolving” robots 3D-print their own parts
Artificial intelligence. It’s long been the stuff of science fiction, but it’s inching closer to becoming science fact. Around the…
Read MoreTrigger-unhappy: Norway’s police
Recent statistics show Norwegian police fired two shots in the whole of 2014, both of which were warning shots which…
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