I always loved trains, and I have taken my share of them, whether it’s the beautiful and comfortable intercity from my homecity Hamar to Oslo, the Norwegian capital, or doing the transsiberian from Moscow down to Beijing. In China I spent a lot of time on trains, and they are awesome; the train stations look [...]

On the bus to soil science, trying to repeat obscure soil horizons and cation exchance capacity, I started thinking about TV. Ever notice how fun it is to watch TV when you’re in a different country? Granted, you might not understand everything going on, but it’s just so refreshing to see all new faces, and [...]

I am very intrigued by design, and think I recognize good one when I see it (although I cannot for the life of me create it myself), and so I thought it was interesting when I came across a blog that does nothing but post frontpages of newspapers and discuss their design. I originally came [...]

I have written about information I found on brain drain, during my research for a thesis, earlier. The topic proved very interesting, especially as I started exploring topics like the anthropological impacts of remittances on communities in the developing world, and I would like to read much more about it. However, every thesis has a [...]

My best friends are scattered all around the world, which can be very frustrating at times. Luckily, more and more opportunities are appearing for staying in touch, Skype (and the Gizmo project) being perhaps the most important – free high quality phone calls over the internet. Works out of the box. (With Gizmo you can [...]

Ever since I came to Canada, I’ve been noticing a lot of small things about how things work, that I liked or didn’t like. One thing that annoyed me a little bit was the large amounts of change that ended up in my wallet. Partly because prices in Canada end up being so weird, because [...]