You can learn about Norwegian food traditions, hiking snacks tips, the uniquely Norwegian Easter crime tradition, and get your Norwegian on!

A television story from Afghanistan on Norwegian television on New Years Eve spurred a curious debate where it appeared that a large Norwegian newspaper said the military should have censored the footage.

I tried to make the Not Evil Just Wrong lessons interactive and hands-on. I focused on science literacy, fact checking, understanding the nature of scientific knowledge, understanding of what happens to science when it steps into the policy scene, and fundamental understanding of economic and political dynamics.

I worked as a local reporter in Missouri, and I recognize all the Tea Party sentiments from the people I covered there. It is not so prevalent on the East coast, but the ideas and the sentiments are definitely familiar to me after six years in the Midwest. This is Middle America speaking in a way they haven’t in many years.

Dawkins new book makes it easy for anyone to overcome his or her pig ignorance on evolution. He starts out with the easy stuff, selective breeding in domesticated plants and animals. Then he gets a bit more challenging by offering up an onslaught of examples of natural selection in wild populations of plants, animals, and insects.

Most of the world, including President Barack Obama, woke up last Friday to quite a surprise. But the real story is that Thorbjørn Jagland, the new committee chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, wanted to start his tenure with a splash. He had promised insiders a winner that would gain international recognition.

This was the question my friend Iain Murray sent me yesterday morning. He went ahead and posted my reply over at the Corner, National Review’s blog. Here is a excerpt:

One person that did predict this result was Gerhard Helskog, an experienced reporter covering the foreign desk for TV2, the largest private newsnetwork in Norway. He said the new committee chair, Torbjørn Jagland like to think big, and Obama was big in Jagland’s eyes.

Obama put social media and web 2.0 technologies to good use in this campaign. Norwegian politicians are gearing up for an election in September and want to learn from the U.S. general election. I asked social media expert Elizabeth Terrell from David All Group, from Washington, DC what they could learn.

“It is great to be proud to be American again,” says Gail Parkay from Illinois Teacher Federation. “it feels great that we will clean up the things that were done in our names. It starts with Barack Obama, but we all have a role to play. This has been a day filled with joy, because we have worked so long to get where we are now.”

Story on education challenges facing Obama and his newly minted Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan.