3500 km and 16 years of experience When I came to the Oslofjord in August 2004, I was allowed to slowly get used to the dimensions of my beloved host country. A friend showed me like this: Take your elbow as the southern tip of Norway and your fingertips as the extreme northeast (a little east…
Spiritual ecology is contagious The summer weeks spiritual ecology go into their fourth year – and now they move towards east: to the White Sea, the place of the mysterious Solovietskij islands and the “Drotte” mysteries. Deeply connected to it, in the far west of Europe: the Hybernian Mysteries on Iona. A few weeks later…
Dystopia, by Amazon After Amazon won a patent on a “voice processing algorithm” for its Echo home assistant, most news outlets focused on how it would let Amazon detect customers’ mood and health. Intercept editorial fellow Belle Lin dug deeper and found a different aspect of the patent — its claim to be able to detect accents and…
In these times of (media and military) mobilization against “dangerous Russia”, I probably have to justify myself for even travelling to Moscow….”aren`t you afraid”, I am often being asked. And since the missiles are flying mofre quickly than the independent UN observers, the task of watching what really is going on cannot be let to…
