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 […]

I saw the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom with a Hospitality Club friend in Kansas City this summer. She herself was training to be a teacher, and I believe her mother was a teacher, so the movie had a particular salience for them. It is about a group of children in inner-city NYC schools that take […]

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 […]

Voices from the Edge, by Ruth O’Brien, is one of the books I picked up by random while studying in Robart’s Library. Although I have a few friends involved in accessability for people with disabilities, and I volunteered for three months at a community of people with disabilities in Mexico, I did not know much […]

I’ve come across this phenomenon before; I always become hypercreative around exam times. It’s as if my brain was desperate to think about anything BUT the courses I have exams in. The last few days I have had a slew of new ideas, checked out books from the library, emailed people. Some of those ideas […]

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 […]

As you might know, I love cities, and I love public transit. In fact, I was thinking about studying it, if it is possible to study. I remember telling my friend; You know how there are car magazines for people who are interested in cars? Who want to know about the latest developments, the newest […]

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 […]

As I grew up, I always loved reading. I spent my days off in the town library, where all the staff knew me, and if my mother couldn’t find me, she would call them and ask for me. I graduated from the children’s department on the second floor at the age of 12, and started […]