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Articles by Asle Rønning

Experts risk unifying Breivik’s incoherent ideology

April 27, 2012 in Society & Culture

In Oslo Courthouse, terrorist Anders Behring Breivik presents ideological references that bounce in all directions. The commentators might inadvertently construct a comprehensive ideology out of mishmash.
Coverage of Norwegian terrorist trial can be fatiguing

April 19, 2012 in Society & Culture

Anders Behring Breivik’s trial is receiving massive media coverage. Journalistic ethics could be put to test by pressure for a constant stream of breaking news.
Nanoparticles impact fish through the food chain

March 22, 2012 in Environment

Nanoparticles can pass right through the ecosystem and harm fish at the top of the food chain.
Northern biolab for rent

March 4, 2012 in Technology

If you have some good bio-tech ideas but no place to test them, you might consider a travel to the far North.
Old spawners important for salmon rivers

February 27, 2012 in Agriculture & Fisheries

Super-veterans among salmon are keys to the survival of river stocks in hard times.
Waking plankton from hibernation

February 15, 2012 in Agriculture & Fisheries

They are the motor of the ecosystem in the oceans of the high North. But we don’t know much about where plankton are during the sunless winters or how they waken in spring.
On the track of the world’s first farmer

January 31, 2012 in Agriculture & Fisheries

The very first farmer may have lived in a barren mountain landscape in Turkey over 10,000 years ago.
Genes reveal animal history

January 24, 2012 in Agriculture & Fisheries

Reindeer living way up north today are immigrants from the south. This is revealed by their genes, which also divulge other secrets of these animals’ shared history with humankind for thousands of years.
The crucial choice to cultivate the land

January 23, 2012 in Agriculture & Fisheries

Agriculture gave us cities and pyramids but it can also lead to poorer health. Why did humans choose to go down this road?
The people who changed Norway

January 19, 2012 in Society & Culture

About 4,400 years ago a boat came to Norway. The people aboard had shiny weapons, a foreign culture and a new economic system based on agriculture. The country would never be the same.

Asle Rønning

Asle Rønning is a Norwegian science journalist. He writes for ScienceNordic and forskning.no - Norwegian online newspaper on science.

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