Latest Ntnu Podcast Episodes
ENCORE: Old bones and modern germs
63 Degrees North - June 26, 2024 10:45 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis episode originally aired on Feb. 16, 2022. Trondheim, Norway’s first religious and national capital, has a rich history that has been revealed over decades of archaeological excavations. One question archaeologists are working on right now has a lot of relevance in a pandemic: Can insight...
ENCORE: Shedding light on the polar night
63 Degrees North - May 31, 2024 13:31 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThis episode originally aired on January 27, 2021. Krill eyeballs. The werewolf effect. Diel vertical migration. Arctic marine biologists really talk about these things. There’s a reason for that — when it comes to the polar night, when humans see only velvety darkness, krill eyeballs see thi...
Strange bedfellows: Howard Hughes, a $2 billion ship and a lost Soviet submarine
63 Degrees North - March 21, 2024 19:10 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIt's 1968 and a Soviet sub carrying nuclear warheads has gone missing – lost, with all hands. The Soviets never found it – but the Americans did – in nearly 5000 meters of water. What follows is the strange tale of Project Azorian, an ultra-secret mission by the US Central Intelligence Agency, ...
Seabed mining – savior or scourge?
63 Degrees North - February 06, 2024 08:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNorway's Mid-Arctic Ocean Ridge is alive with underwater volcanic activity – where big towers called black smokers spew mineral-laden boiling hot water into the ocean. The minerals precipitate out, and have accumulated over millions of years. At the same time, this extreme environment is home to...
Report from Dubai
63 Degrees North - December 13, 2023 19:29 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsOur guest on today's show is Anders Hammer Strømman, one of the lead authors for the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on mitigation of climate change, released in April 2022. He was invited to Dubai to the COP 28 climate talks to talk to the shipping industry about how they ...
When trees talk
63 Degrees North - November 01, 2023 07:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn their careful records of climate change over the centuries — and millennia — trees offer a kind of crystal ball on the past. But they can also help researchers figure out everything from what happened in Norway during the Black Death to how Nazis hid an enormous battleship from the Allies dur...
1100 Norwegian teachers fought Hitler — and won
63 Degrees North - October 18, 2023 06:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhen Hitler's troops stormed into Norway on April 9, 1940, Germany's goal was to secure the country’s 1200 km long coastline so iron ore from Swedish mines could continue to flow to the northern Norwegian port of Narvik — and eventually to the German war machine. But that wasn't all that Hitle...
Tea bags on the tundra
63 Degrees North - October 11, 2023 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsUp on the Arctic tundra, a young man in chest waders is wandering around a peat bod, burying tea bags — Lipton tea bags, green tea and rooibos, to be exact. This week, I head to Iskoras mountain, a low peak in far northern Norway, outside of the town of Karasjok to find out what burying tea bag...
When the doctor is out
63 Degrees North - October 04, 2023 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsSierra Leone used to be the most dangerous place in the world to give birth. Without enough doctors to do C-sections, women and babies were dying. But what if you didn't need a doctor? This week, the story of two determined surgeons and a no-so radical idea that is saving lives in Sierra Leone ...
Listening to Leviathans: Sounds from the deep
63 Degrees North - September 27, 2023 06:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNorwegian technology, courtesy of the 19th-century whaler Svend Foyn, played a critical role in establishing the modern era of industrial whaling.By the time the 1960s rolled around, most large whale populations hovered on the brink of extinction. Now, Norwegian researchers are testing new techn...
Running rats and healing hearts
63 Degrees North - September 20, 2023 06:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIn 1998, a young Norwegian exercise physiologist found that a technique he had used to help Olympic athletes could help heart patients too. But his idea made doctors sweat. One famous cardiologist told him that if he used his technique in human heart attack patients, he "would kill them." Today...
5 Strategies for Writing Engaging Social Media Posts for your Practice with Guest Expert Kayla Das
Practice Management Nuggets - February 27, 2023 16:33 - 31 minutes ★★ - 3 ratingsAre you a new clinic owner and wondering if social media marketing is for you? Maybe you have been dabbling into social media marketing but now you are feeling overwhelmed? Or, maybe you have an established social media presence but you want to learn new ways to get social media engagement. ...
Interview Right to Hire Right
Practice Management Nuggets - January 30, 2023 16:58 - 38 minutes ★★ - 3 ratingsDo you feel that you are “unlucky” when making hiring decisions? Have you ever hired someone and then within a few days realized that this isn’t the right fit? Would you like to avoid common hiring mistakes? Would you like some tips on how to improve your hiring process? Hiring the right...
Wax, wood and CO2
63 Degrees North - November 15, 2022 15:15 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThree tons of wax. A 4-story office building made almost entirely of wood. And putting CO2 to work instead of letting it heat up the planet: Scientists and engineers across the globe are harnessing unlikely materials to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Today's show looks at how a zero-emissions o...
The EU has the strongest climate law in the world. But it's not enough.
63 Degrees North - November 07, 2022 09:06 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEarlier this year, tremendous floods in Pakistan forced 600,000 pregnant women to leave their homes for safer ground. It was among the latest in a series of nearly unthinkable happenings caused by climate change."Can you imagine if you are about to give birth to a child, and you have to leave yo...
Cybersecurity In Your Privacy Impact Assessment
Practice Management Nuggets - November 02, 2022 02:13 - 28 minutes - Video ★★ - 3 ratingsHow To Include Cybersecurity In Your Privacy Impact Assessment Keeping information safe and secure is a challenging development for businesses of all sizes over the last few years. Remote working and using cloud hosted services forced healthcare practices to change, or at least re-examine, the...
How Virtual Office Medical Administration Services Can Help Your Healthcare Practice
Practice Management Nuggets - October 12, 2022 15:06 - 27 minutes - Video ★★ - 3 ratingsHave you ever said, If only our referral backlog was caught up, our incoming faxes were sorted, our billing team was more confident someone could help with the incoming phone calls during our busiest hours or lunch hour then you want to listen to our episode today how virtual medical off...
Managing Employees When They Make Mistakes - Addressing Employee Performance
Practice Management Nuggets - September 28, 2022 18:00 - 37 minutes - Video ★★ - 3 ratingsHave you ever had an employee who has made a mistake and now you’re scrambling about what to do next? Your business needs a set of reasonable rules and guidelines for employees to follow. This helps to create a safe and respectful workplace and protect the privacy rights of your patients and e...
Getting to Net Zero
63 Degrees North - June 02, 2022 09:40 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWe all know that climate change is real and that we have to do something about it. In today's podcast extra episode, we go behind the scenes at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and talk to Anders Hammer Strømman, who was one of the lead authors for their latest report, released in ...
The Alchemists: Turning wild water into white coal
63 Degrees North - April 13, 2022 17:54 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsThe secrets behind how Norwegian scientists and engineers harnessed the country’s wild waterfalls by developing super efficient turbines — and how advances in turbine technology being developed now may be the future in a zero-carbon world. They include an engineer who figured out how to take adv...
From Bedside to Certified Nurse Midwife, Krystal Brown is the Nurse for Women
TobiTalks- A Nursing Career Guide For Millennials - April 05, 2022 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsThis Nurse is not checking the box, she is meeting the PURPOSE! On this Episode of TobiTalks, Krystal Brown shares her journey to becoming a certified nurse midwife. From shining light to the lack of diversity in nursing school to becoming an owner of one of the only two black-owned birthing c...
The Detectives: Hunting toxic chemicals in the Arctic
63 Degrees North - March 30, 2022 20:23 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsBaby grey seals. Polar bears. Zooplankton on painkillers. How do toxic chemicals and substances end up in Arctic animals — and as it happens, native people, too? Our guests on today's show are Bjørn Munro Jenssen, an ecotoxicologist at NTNU, Jon Øyvind Odland, a professor of global health at ...
Hermann Göring’s Luftwaffe and the $6 billion deal
63 Degrees North - March 16, 2022 18:07 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsHow the unlikely combination of WWII Germany, a modest English engineer who created a worker’s paradise, an ambitious industrialist prosecuted as a traitor and a hardworking PhD helped build modern Norway, one aluminium ingot at a time. Today's guests are Hans Otto Frøland, Svein Richard Brandt...
The 10 Year Tenacious Journey to Becoming a Nurse
TobiTalks- A Nursing Career Guide For Millennials - March 08, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsWhen giving up on your dreams is not an option, you dream BIGGER! On this Episode of TobiTalks, Shacarra Briscoe shares the ups and downs of her 10 year journey to becoming a nurse. From failing out of nursing school to becoming one of the highly sought after new graduate for two of the largest ...
Pirates, noblewomen and bicycling housewives
63 Degrees North - March 02, 2022 16:13 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhy does Norway always rank among the top countries on the planet when it comes to gender equality? It didn't happen by accident. Instead, it took powerful medieval noblewomen, 19th century farmers’ wives, an early 20th century activist on a bicycle, and the feminists who emerged from the postwa...
The Year of The Nurse Continues: A Conversation with Tobi Tajomavwo
TobiTalks- A Nursing Career Guide For Millennials - February 22, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 48 ratingsOn this episode of TobiTalks, Tobi discusses what life has been for her during a two year hiatus from podcasting in the midst of the pandemic. She talks about how her platform will be highlighting health equity, diversity and inclusion in healthcare. From becoming a new mother to sharing details...
Old bones and modern germs
63 Degrees North - February 16, 2022 15:30 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTrondheim, Norway’s first religious and national capital, has a rich history that has been revealed over decades of archaeological excavations. One question archaeologists are working on right now has a lot of relevance in during a pandemic: Can insight into the health conditions of the past she...
Build Your Authority, Appeal, and Profit as an Author
Practice Management Nuggets - February 07, 2022 14:00 - 23 minutes - Video ★★ - 3 ratingsIn this episode #104 of the Practice Management Nuggets Podcast, Lind Stirling will walk you through some of the essentials for creating a profitable book that represents you well. Would you like to help family members of your patients to be better prepared to support your patient after treatme...
Lessons From The Babylon Telus Health OIPC Investigation Report
Practice Management Nuggets - January 10, 2022 03:49 - 22 minutes - Video ★★ - 3 ratingsYou've probably heard about the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) investigation report into Babylon Health. The investigation report provides privacy guidance for vendors of virtual health solutions and the healthcare providers who use the digital health solutions. This i...
5 Critical Things Healthcare Practitioners Need To Have A Profitable Business
Practice Management Nuggets - September 11, 2021 18:17 - 29 minutes - Video ★★ - 3 ratingsIn the latest episode of Practice Management Nuggets Podcast, Tammy Hyska shares her expert tips on 5 Critical Things Healthcare Practitioners Need To Have A Profitable Business. Are you excited to start your chiropractic, medical, or dental practice, but don’t have a plan to make it profitable...
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