This week, Knut and Chris talk about the movie Arrival, and what learning a new language might or might not do to your brain. Also under the microscope are doors, Janteloven, and Norwegians' unfavourable assessment of their own rudeness.

Links:

• Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King - YouTube
• List of tunnels in Norway - Wikipedia
• Lærdal Tunnel - Wikipedia
• Pavlok
• Stormkast 2017
• Dan Wilbur on Twitter: "President Trump referenced the horrible incident in Sweden last night. Here's a photo of the chaos: https://t.co/cuGP5qOz50"
• John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) - IMDb
• Arrival (2016) - IMDb
• Arrival (film) - Wikipedia
• Story of Your Life (book on which Arrival is based) - Wikipedia
• Beautiful Girls (1996) | "You're a dude in flux" - Natalie Portman, Timothy Hutton - YouTube
• Linguistic relativity (Sapir-Whorf hypothesis) - Wikipedia
• What happens when you can't count past four? | Education | The Guardian
• Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia
• Maurice Bloch - Wikipedia
• The Blob by Maurice Bloch « Anthropology of this Century
• A linguist on Arrival's alien language.
• Language Log » "Arrival" arrives