Spørretimen explores people, ideas and subjects worth understanding better. Through long conversations and short, sourced explainers, we make complicated things easier to grasp.
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What do the numbers in a barcode mean? A walk through the GS1 standards – how a GTIN is built up, how the check digit is calculated, what the prefix actually says about country of origin, the keys beyond GTIN, and the move to 2D codes towards 2027.
With Odin Jean Aadland · Logistics
Odin went to Turkey and came home with 4,300 new hair follicles. He describes the whole trip – how little he researched beforehand, how the procedure actually went, what it cost, what hurt, and why he thinks it was worth it. An honest conversation about something many men think about and few discuss.
With Sturla Fagerli Larsen · Artist and songwriter
Sturla has been on X Factor, Idol, The Voice and Melodi Grand Prix, and had a record deal with Sony. A conversation about life as an artist and the business behind it – from television competitions to royalties and booking your own concerts.
How do you build habits that last? A walk through James Clear's Atomic Habits – the four laws, the 1 % rule, habit stacking, the two-minute rule and why you should never miss twice.
With Håvard Hasund · Paramedic
Håvard Hasund paddled 1,500 kilometres through northern Canada in 47 days. A conversation about the planning, the safety, the bear encounters and what actually happened out there.
How do you sleep better? A walk through what Matthew Walker, Andrew Huberman and Bryan Johnson agree on - the circadian rhythm, sleep pressure, light, caffeine and the evening routine.
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Spørretimen
Long conversations with people who carry interesting experience, stories, professions and knowledge. Recorded in Norwegian.
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Economics, technology, psychology, books and other subjects explained so they make sense. Published in Norwegian and English.
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With John Erik
What is it like to be a doctor? John Erik talks about studying medicine in Poland, everyday life as a GP, meeting patients, responsibility, and advice for future doctors.
How do some people memorise a whole deck of cards? A practical walk through memory technique: the memory palace, encoding things as images, and the systems that make it possible – and how to use them yourself.
How do you sleep better? A walk through what Matthew Walker, Andrew Huberman and Bryan Johnson agree on - the circadian rhythm, sleep pressure, light, caffeine and the evening routine.
Spørretimen
With Odin Jean Aadland · Logistics
Odin went to Turkey and came home with 4,300 new hair follicles. He describes the whole trip – how little he researched beforehand, how the procedure actually went, what it cost, what hurt, and why he thinks it was worth it. An honest conversation about something many men think about and few discuss.
With Sturla Fagerli Larsen · Artist and songwriter
Sturla has been on X Factor, Idol, The Voice and Melodi Grand Prix, and had a record deal with Sony. A conversation about life as an artist and the business behind it – from television competitions to royalties and booking your own concerts.
With Håvard Hasund · Paramedic
Håvard Hasund paddled 1,500 kilometres through northern Canada in 47 days. A conversation about the planning, the safety, the bear encounters and what actually happened out there.
Spørretimen Explained
How do some people memorise a whole deck of cards? A practical walk through memory technique: the memory palace, encoding things as images, and the systems that make it possible – and how to use them yourself.
School teaches you to work right to left, because that is how you write. In your head it is the other way round. A walk-through of the techniques for addition and subtraction – round and correct, fill up to the ten, shift between the numbers, and why you never need to borrow.
What does it take to succeed enormously? Not what you think, argues Malcolm Gladwell. A walk through the ideas in Outliers – 10,000 hours, birth months, opportunity and cultural legacy – and why the book's most famous rule is misread.
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What is actually changing in the jobs, and what only sounds like it.
Interest rates, inflation and the policy rate – explained with no prior knowledge.
Why we get things wrong the same way every time, and what actually helps.
What the technology actually does, explained without hype and without contempt.
The techniques that work, and why the brain remembers images better than numbers.
How numbers are used – and misused – when something has to be decided.
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He uses Spørretimen to explore economics, technology, business, learning and how people make decisions – through the guests, and through the explainers he writes and records himself.
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