Sakte men sikkert rulles historien opp om hvordan amerikansk teknologi muliggjorde at Kineserne skapte ekstremt potente varianter av koronaviruset i laboratoriet i Wuhan. En lab med slurvete sikkerhet; rett utenfor en millionby. Aksel Friedstrøm er tilbake for å hjelpe oss å sette sammen puslespillbrikkene.

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Da Peterson gjorde seg til skraveklassens hatobjekt nummer en; båret frem på incel-bølgen, ble JP-fortolker en loslitt tittel kun forbigått i antall av amerika-eksperter.   Hva tenker så JP-ekspertenes ekspert: Jørg Jørgensen; universitetslektor og aftenbladet-kommentator; om Petersons opptreden i oslo spektrum.

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Sune Lehman who’s a professor of Complexity and Network Science at the Technical University of Denmark was introduced to Sturla via Johann Hari and his new book «Stolen Focus» about how to get back our attention that is stolen from us by Big Tech, and Sunes perspectives are mostly about the speed of things online. In this episode though Sune the person and hobby philosopher meets Sturla the person and hobby philosopher for an open talk about the world and its ideas. In the preparation for this convo they both logged on Twitter and before they log of again today june 1st they share there common experiences from the platform after about 2 months of using it since they agreed to do this pod. Highly intersting, tune in!

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To paraphrase the great Norwegian essayist Georg Johannesen in his preface to the translation of Tu Fu: «The evening tabloids come out every day, but an interview about Confucius with philosophy professor Bryan Van Norden (Vassar College, NY) on a Norwegian podcast comes out only every 2000th year — it should have been the other way around.» An absolute must-listen!

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Co-Founder of the Hong Kong Watch Benedict Rogers on him self facing up to life in prison if he returns to HK and about his upcoming book The China Nexus: the truth about the CCP, about Tibet, Taiwan, Hongkong and the Uigyrs. Tune in!

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Sturla rightfully got some friendly critique from Ole Martin Moen (Oxford/Oslo Met) for only having skeptics on discussing free will and moral responsibility and took it as a challenge. In this episode he is talking to philsophy professor Eddy Nahmias (Georgia State) about the compatibalist view, and about the view that one can be punished solely to inflict harm on wrongdoers. Eddy is explaining this view in a most sympathetic and commonsensical manner and as it turns out the two fonds more common ground than points of contention. As promised by his «friends» from the skeptic side the conversation with Eddy ended up very fruitful and Sturla so far can only agree with Derk Pereboom that the free will scene is a super cool scene with super cool people - on all sides - this far.

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He is quoted by Paul Krugman, misunderstood by Ezra Klein and he invented C3Po(?)! Steven Randy Waldman on nihilism, punitivism, the erosion of US democracy and the chance for peace in Ukraine - check out his blog interfluidity.com!

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Lisa Loven Kongsli er en norsk skuespillerinne, en venninne som jeg har kjent siden barnehagen, men også, og i denne konteksten aller viktigst, en pårørende hvis mor har bodd mye på Kirkens Bymisjon der denne samtalen ble tatt opp. Vi snakker om skam og skyld, om tap og håp, om hvilke systemer som kan få mennesker til å blomstre eller visne - og om mye mer. Dette er første gang Lisa snakker om dette offentlig så veldig stort! Hør hør

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“I believe rehabilitation is a tribute to victims”
Sturla speaks with columnist and convicted murderer James Erwin about the importance of tolerance when striving for a better society. During their conversation we learn about the difference between the UK’s punitive approach in contrast with Norway’s more compassionate philosphy in regard to correctional services. James also tells us about his own path from lawless to law abiding citizen. Tune in!

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Watch out, bavuse out of 150+ episodes this one is Sturlas #1 favourite! Aaron Rabinowitz is a philosophy professor at Rutgers, a podcaster (Embrace the Void/Philosophers in Space) and a personal friend of - according to Sturla - the funniest guy in the world, Chris Kavanaugh from Decoding the Gurus. Apart from discussing Chris and his twisted mind they get into the weeds of the moral luck-debate and through Aarons unique perspective look at the Culture War online through this prism. Aaron is maybe also the most eloquent philosopher in the Galaxy Brain-o-sphere, maybe a combination of Schopenhauer and Martin Luther King? With a dash of Rick and Morty! Enjoy:)

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