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339 pages Syria

Norway's best Middle East connoisseur Cecilie Hellestveit goes into detail about the greatest conflict of our time in the book of Syria – A Great War in a Small World (Pax, 2017).

Phosphorus – The problem of large P

Phosphorus is essential for all life on earth, just like oxygen and carbon. The problem is that we are running out of just phosphorus – and there is no plan.

To turn the tolerance sheath after the wind

The eagerness to accuse immigrants and Muslims of being intolerant of slaves seems rather peculiar when one considers the kind of attitudes that still exist among so-called Norwegian ethnicists.

The war on women

It's serious now: The freedom-loving US is about to deprive millions of women of the freedom to decide on their own bodies.

Oil-Norway's need for adult education

The harmless designation "23. the licensing round »has triggered a historic lawsuit against the Norwegian state.

Tax Justice: We'll try again

What happens to the work on tax havens in Norway after the Panama Papers scandal? If we look at the work in three important areas, we get a certain overview.

The hacked body

Physical implants that are injected into the body. Cyborgs with antennas. Women who monitor the ovulation through software. The body hackers tell us something about modern man's relationship to technology. 

Radiation protection is criticized for scrapping precautionary principles

More and more countries in Europe are advocating a precautionary principle when it comes to wireless technology. Norway, on the other hand, goes a different way.

The gut is the new brain

Is it progress to let the gut get the place the brain has long had?