Episode 20: Renaissance Potato

This week Knut and Chris discuss cheese-slicer injuries, bagpipes, drinking outdoors, unparliamentary speech, school leavers going nuts, Norwegian conformity (or lack thereof), reindeer migration, and basement trolls.

This week Knut and Chris discuss cheese-slicer injuries, bagpipes, drinking outdoors, unparliamentary speech, school leavers going nuts, Norwegian conformity (or lack thereof), reindeer migration, and basement trolls.

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A Big Little Idea Called Legibility (recap of last week's cultural pick)Hardanger Fiddle - YouTubeIn Tune Sessions: Sam Lee and Kathryn Tickell - YouTubeThunderstruck-Gordon Duncan - YouTube — Almost metal pipingCake Boss Decorating Tip - Piping Techniques - YouTube — Cake pipingRed Hot Chilli Pipers - Topic - YouTubeMartyn Bennett - Handshaker Stomp - YouTube — Bagpipe techno (?)Hardanger fiddle - WikipediaTwelve-string guitar - WikipediaNorthumbrian smallpipes - WikipediaBagpipes - WikipediaLinguistic relativity - WikipediaHigh modernism - WikipediaCheese knife - WikipediaEaster's true detectives: Bizarre Norwegian tradition of reading crime stories and detective novels during EasterRoald Dahl - WikipediaIan Fleming - WikipediaNRK Radio - SpråkteigenUnparliamentary language - WikipediaBritish public annoyed by booing in parliament – Anne SaenenAustralia's parliament is 'farcical waste of time' - TelegraphGoogle uses neural networks to translate without transcribing | New ScientistDrinking Alcohol in public places (UK) | DrinkawareTravelling to Norway → Must Know About Drinking & Drugs — Visitors should be aware that drinking in a public place is illegal in Norway and even drinking on your own balcony where you can be seen by others is technically against the law. 17 May Constitution Day (1814) in NorwayRussefeiring - WikipediaRussedress.no — Buy some official Norwegian Russ-overalls and merch. But really don't.Moonshine by country (Norway) - WikipediaMoonshine by country (Scotland) - Wikipedia — Illicitly produced whisky from Scotland is called peatreek. The term refers to the smoke (or reek) infused in the drink by drying the malted barley over a peat fire. "Peat Reek" is also the brand name of a legal, commercially available whisky. Production of spirits in Scotland requires the relevant excise licences, as in the rest of the UK.Roskilde Festival - WikipediaNow comes the Norwegian WhiskyEllis Pratt on Twitter: "@smaforskjeller Does this happen in Norway? https://t.co/bEcV7oXRUQ"Ellis Pratt on Twitter: "@smaforskjeller Do they wear white ties at funerals in Norway? If so, why is that?"Guidelines for the evaluation of Norwegian doctoral degrees - University of OsloDefending your PhD thesis in… the United Kingdom | Researching Security NetworkTokenism | Definition of Tokenism by Merriam-Webster — tokenismCatholic Church in Norway - WikipediaNorwegians, a bunch of anarchists!Queuing: Is it really the British way? - BBC NewsChildren's Places: Cross-Cultural Perspectives - Google Bøker — The Norwegian concept of _felleskap_ is not exactly the same as the English concept of community, which, according to McDowell, refers to “a fluid concept of social relations that may be, but are not necessarily, tied to territory” Swedish bathers in naked shower outcry - The LocalMarch For ScienceThe Impossible Project – About the reindeer migration minute for minute (Google Translate)Behind camera on Reinflytting minute by minute (Google Translate)Rating Stuff in Norway | VigetKarpe Diem - WikipediaLett å være rebell i kjellerleiligheten din (Offisiell video) - YouTube — (It's Easy To Be A Rebel In Your Basement Flat)Lyrics: Karpe Diem — Easy to be a rebel in your basement flat — (Google Translate version of the song — amusingly bad :) If Chris has time/can be bothered she may attempt a better version)FramMuseum.noErnest Shackleton - WikipediaSouth: The Endurance Expedition: Amazon.co.uk: Ernest Shackleton: 9780140288865: Books