Cathedral at the end of the world
Nobelmen and women, in fancy clothing and pearls – but with dragon wings and tails. A laughing man with a full head of curly hair. Lions biting the ears off a man whose mouth is full of writhing serpe...
8 Aug 202425min
ENCORE: Hermann Göring's Luftwaffe and the $6 billion deal
This episode was originally aired on March 16, 2021. Norway doesn't seem like a natural place for the aluminium industry to blossom. But somehow, it did – due in part to the unlikely combination of WW...
25 Juli 202429min
ENCORE: Old bones and modern germs
This episode originally aired on Feb. 16, 2022.Trondheim, Norway’s first religious and national capital, has a rich history that has been revealed over decades of archaeological excavations. One ques...
26 Juni 202426min
ENCORE: Shedding light on the polar night
This episode originally aired on January 27, 2021.Krill eyeballs. The werewolf effect. Diel vertical migration. Arctic marine biologists really talk about these things. There’s a reason for that — whe...
31 Maj 202424min
Strange bedfellows: Howard Hughes, a $2 billion ship and a lost Soviet submarine
It's 1968 and a Soviet sub carrying nuclear warheads has gone missing – lost, with all hands. The Soviets never found it – but the Americans did – in nearly 5000 meters of water.What follows is the st...
21 Mars 202418min
Seabed mining – savior or scourge?
Norway's Mid-Arctic Ocean Ridge is alive with underwater volcanic activity – where big towers called black smokers spew mineral-laden boiling hot water into the ocean. The minerals precipitate out, an...
6 Feb 202428min
Report from Dubai
Our guest on today's show is Anders Hammer Strømman, one of the lead authors for the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on mitigation of climate change, released in April 2022. He w...
13 Dec 202312min
When trees talk
In their careful records of climate change over the centuries — and millennia — trees offer a kind of crystal ball on the past. But they can also help researchers figure out everything from what happe...
1 Nov 202329min
