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Mind the Gap

27/08/2012 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

According to Swedish professor in International Health and distinguished TED-speaker Hans Rosling many of us have an outdated conception of the world’s economic situation. At a recent lecture at the University of Oslo Rosling pointed out that while the USA, straight after the outbreak of the recent economic crisis, became in debt to Brazil, countries in the west including Norway provide monetary support to Brazil. The picture below was taken at an economic summit hosted by then president George W….

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Christmas Learning

23/12/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 1 comment

We are soon to enter a new festival season, and many of you are now are leaving studies or work for some days, or even weeks off. Spend time to celebrate christmas in one or another fashion, spend time with family and friends, and spend time gaining strength. While it’s good to have some time off, it’s also great to have some time to work on some projects, read some new literature, and learn some new things. Here are what…

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The Cloud in the Sky

07/06/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

As I’m writing this I’m watching the clouds over the mountains between the east and west of Norway from above. On this DY 1354 flight to Edinburgh with Norwegian Air Shuttle I was promised Internet connectivity, but technical errors occurred and I had to write this blog post in my OpenOffice editor instead of in the WordPress back-end. I got a bit disappointed, but now writing and having a cup of coffee I’m satisfied. Internet aboard airplanes is not a…

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Stormberger

04/05/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Da Steinar J. Olsen skrev på bloggen sin at han ønsket andre bloggere til å lese hans nye bok Stormberger for så å komme med tilbakemeldinger svarte jeg i kommentarfeltet at dette er noe jeg kunne tenke meg. Jeg har nå lest boka og her er noen av mine tanker rundt boka, historiene som fortelles og meningene som presenteres. Boka Stormberger har undertittelen Samfunnsansvar – fra ord til handling. Boka er satt sammen på en ganske konvensjonell måte, og er…

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Last ned bøker gratis og lovlig

24/02/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

Jeg har de siste to årene hatt stor glede av en finurlighet i opphavsrettslovgivningen, og nå ønsker jeg å dele dette tipset med deg. På Internett kan du finne mye materiale gratis, og ofte kan det være vanskelig å avgjøre hvorvidt det er lovlig å bruke eller å bygge på verker du finner online. Kanskje du ønsker å sette opp et skuespill eller lage en film. I begge disse tilfellene kan opphavsretten være i veien, for du kan ikke fritt…

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A Comment on: Good Manners in the Age of WikiLeaks

14/02/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

In an essay on Wikileaks the Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist Slavoj Žižek discusses Wikileaks and different aspects on how it can be understood. In this short paper I have tried to use some of the elements mentioned in his text. Wikileaks has been subject to great public attention after they in 2010 published diplomatic cables reveling confidential and secret information from internal US diplomatic network. The cables contained intimidating details on foreign heads of states, analyses and views on…

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Habermas and the Public Sphere

29/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas is maybe the most acknowledged philosopher living today. He is considered to be the heir of the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research where he worked early in his academic career. His first book, which was also his habilitationsschrift (A post-doctoral work done to be recognized as a professor in Germany): The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is widely discussed. In this paper he, in a Marxist tradition, discusses the rise and decay of the…

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Two events

10/01/2011 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

2011. We are now entering the 10th year since the terrible attacks on the World Trade Center which shook the world and imposed a view of a world where everything can happen. I remember the happening, sitting in the school bus home from Tynset I’ve got a text telling me that a plane had crashed into a skyscraper in New York. As soon as I came home I ran inside and turned on the TV set in the kitchen. At…

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Christmas

26/12/2010 Ola Løvholm Comments 0 Comment

I’m now back in Norway to celebrate Christmas. More than one week holiday during the shortest days and longest nights of the year is a good break in between two summers. Yesterday the dinner table was filled up with food, drinks and sweets and the pace of life slowed down to an absolute minimum with time for cakes, coffee and contemplation. Today, one of the most quiet days of the year, I wish you all a merry Christmas, and may…

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Student demonstration in Edinburgh

30/11/2010 Ola Løvholm Comments 1 comment

The UK government coalition of Tories and the Liberal Democrats has annonced cuts in welfare due to the economical situation. Edinburgh students were demonstrating today for what the call a lie, and it is especially the cabinet deputy and LibDem leader Nick Clegg students are raging against -We know you are a Tory, furied the rally as they went from the Edinburgh University towards the Scottish Parliament. After the demonstration in front of the parliament some of the students went…

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