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 Jul 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 Jun 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 Mai 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 Mar 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
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
