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Good morning from the airport everyone!

I'm blogging from the gate at Gardermoen airport - on my way to Trondheim to give a talk about nuclear power (it will actually be more like two talks: one about "myths" about nuclear power and radiation, and one more technical about thorium as a nuclear fuel) for a bunch of science teachers *excited!* 😀
Just "stopping by" to say Hi, and wish you all a great, sunny (at least the weather is beautiful here at Gardermoen) day, and to tell you about the talks I'll be giving before summer - in case anyone's interested in coming 😉
  • May 6th: The "Women in Tech"-conference 
  • May 12th: Popular talk about nuclear power and maybe some thorium
  • Week 21: About the progress of my uranium-233 experiment - at the Oslo (nuclear physics) Workshop
  • May 26th: The future of nuclear power and thorium and what's really "the thing" about Norwegian thorium - INSEAD Alumni 
  • June 1st: Popular talk about nuclear power and thorium
So if you're interested, the two talks in pink are open to everyone...;)

Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til I love my job


Happy happy Monday everybody <3
Last week (weekend included) was quite exhausting, with five different talks, one trip to Bergen, one trip to Ålesund, Lise´s thesis defence and so on… I had to do something i really HATE – I had to cancel a meeting I was supposed to go to on Friday, but I just really needed to spend my time on preparing for my talk Friday afternoon (at Ekerberg, with a beautiful view of beautiful Oslo, bathed in sunlight).
There was no real weekend this weekend (work work work, talk talk talk), and on Friday my neck and upper back stiffened (not the worst I´ve experienced, but still quite painful) - BUT...to the title of this blogpost:

Yes, periods like this is exhausting. But it is also extremely exciting! I was sitting at a café in Ålesund after I had finished my talk for NITO on Saturday (which seemed to have gone really well – they seemed happy and excited J ), preparing for the Ludvigsen committee meeting today and tomorrow, and I was drinking a glas of wine (since it, after all, was Saturday) – that´s when I realised I had been up since 4:20 AM, and also that I was actually working, but I was really happy, I was doing my job, sitting at a café in beautiful Ålesund, drinking wine! I´m so grateful to be in a position where I can call days and periods like these for my job! (I´ve worked for it, so I must admit that I think I´ve earned it, but I´m still grateful).

Anyway, I just had to tell you: I Love My Job <3
  


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Publisert 3 kommentarer til Dead tired

Good morning everyone!

Guessing a lot of you are still asleep...;) I´m not, though - I´ve been at Gardermoen airport for about 45 minutes already. Going to Ålesund to talk about physics and science and stuff for NITO, and then back again to night. I´ll be landing at 9:25 to night; so it´s really close to the epic date and time march 14, 2015 - 9:26:53 (3.141592653)... Yes, happy Pi Day to all!
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Found this video thing of Alexandra and cousin Andrea playing and dancing just before christmas - aren´t they adorable? At least to me they are <3

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I´ve been working on talks (yes, plural) all day.

Yesterday I realised that I´ll be giving (and therefore also making - which is really the main part of it) 5 different talks in one week.
  1. Thorium on Saturday
  2. Personal talk about choices in Bergen (NHH) on Tuesday
  3. Science Communication on Thursday (same day as Lise is defending her thesis - so I´ll be going back and forth between Tøyen and the University)
  4. Mathematics for teachers on Friday (next Friday)
  5. Nuclear physics and research and stuff in Ålesund (NITO) on Saturday (next Saturday)

Today I´ve mainly been working on the math-talk, which is the hardest one to make... "Why do we need math?"

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Publisert 3 kommentarer til Foredrag: Thorium Mythbusters

God midtuke alle! Her kommer et lite foredragstips fra meg 😉
Jeg skal nemlig holde tre foredrag fremover - eller, det vil si; jeg skal holde ett foredrag - Thorium Mythbusters - tre ganger i tiden fremover. Dette kan jo kanskje være interessant for noen av de fineste leserne mine, og siden det er åpent for alle så må jeg jo nesten si i fra 😉
Det første foredraget er allerede nå til lørdag, ifbm. NFK (Norske Fysikkstudenters Konferanse), klokken 12:30 i Store Fysiske Auditorium på Fysisk institutt på Blindern.
De to andre er torsdag 9. april på Real Frokost (kl 08:30) på Realistforeningen, og det siste er tirsdag den 12. mai er på arrangementet Frokost hos Kristine (jeg kan selvsagt komme med mer info om de to andre foredragene når det nærmer seg, hvis det er ønskelig?)
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Det jeg skal snakke om blir omtrent som dette <3

Thorium er et naturlig forekommende, lett radioaktivt materiale, som av mange har blitt sett på som redningen for kjernekraftens rykte, og løsningen på klimakrisen.

Å bruke thorium som brensel i kjernekraftverk kan ha flere fordeler, og det som ofte trekkes frem er bla:

  • det fins fire ganger mer thorium enn uran i naturen 
  • man kan produsere mindre radioaktivt avfall
  • sannsynligheten for en reaktor som "løper løpsk" er null
  • man kan gjenvinne avfallet fra thorium-brensel
  • thorium kan ikke brukes til våpenproduksjon

Men stemmer det virkelig at thorium er 200 ganger mer energitett enn uran? Og er thorium-ktaftverk tryggere enn konvensjonelle kjernekraftverk? Går thorium-tilhengerne for langt, og er kanskje thorium blitt vår tids teknologiske kult?

Foredraget tar for seg myter og misforståelser rundt kjernekraft generelt, og throium spesielt.

Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til #jenterogteknologi

Hei fineste <3

Her kommer et lite "foredragstips": neste onsdag (den 11. februar) skal jeg snakke på Høyskolen i Oslo og Akershus (HiOA) på deres "motivasjonskonferansen" om Jenter og Teknologi . 
Velkommen til en konferanse om – ja, nettopp: Jenter og teknologi.

Sted: Høgskolen i Oslo og Akershus, Pilestredet 32, OsloDato og tid: onsdag 11. februar 2015 kl. 09.30 - 14.00

Vi inviterer jenter fra ungdoms- og videregående skole til motivasjonsdag på Fakultet for teknologi, kunst og design, for å gjøre jenter kjent med teknologiutdanningene på HiOA.

Jenter og teknologi er en konferanse for deg som vil
  • få en karriere innen teknologi- og realfag,
  • få en spennende jobb og tjene godt, og
  • møte studenter, lærere, ingeniører og forskere som arbeider kreativt med teknologi, realfag og design.
Jeg kommer til å snakke om "kjernefysikk og forskning og sånn" - hvorfor jeg har gjort de valgene jeg har gjort (feks sluttet på ballettlinjen, gikk et år ekstra på vgs), og hvordan det har gått (jeg gikk bla. et år "for lenge" på bachelorgraden, men har allikevel kommet forholdsvis langt...:)).
Påmeldingsfristen er dessverre allerede i dag, så det haster litt (beklager for det) - men det skulle sikkert gå greit om man melder seg på litt senere og (sender mail, eller noe) 😉
Jeg gleder meg!
Sees vi?
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ElektroSilje har laget småfilmer om hvordan det er å studere teknologifag på HiOA, som feks denne fra Energi og miljø:

Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til Who´s the scientist?
The doctors and the lawyers are (at least in popular culture) successful, nice, good looking people who help others and make good money...but who´s the scientist?
Today I´ve been in Hamar (at Hamar Katedralskole) talking about "my story", and physics and science and scientists and why it´s important and a profession I love <3 Can´t complain about the view from the train either 😉

Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til Busy day
It seems to me like Mondays are always so busy, and the TO DO list is just a never ending story... Is that just me, or do others feel the same way?
Tomorrow I´m going to Hamar to give a talk about science and physics and "my story" and stuff like that - really looking forward to it, but my talk is not entirely ready yet :/ However, I´m getting up early tomorrow, to get Alexandra to kindergarden when it opens, to get to Hamar before 10:30 AM, so now I have to go to sleep! Sleep is so extremely important (like, really!), and since I have time on the train tomorrow I can finish everything there 🙂
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Love this cover of Taylor Swits "Shake it off", btw...
...and Einsteins letter to Marie Curie - basically telling her that haters gonna hate, a 100 years ago. 
SHAKE IT OFF <3

Publisert Legg igjen en kommentar til Nervous
I guess some (many?) believe I don´t get nervous before I give talks, since I do it "all the time" - and I don´t think I normally seem very nervous...well, I do get nervous. I´m nervous right now. Nervous about my talk tomorrow - feel like I have nothing smart to say. Nothing to contribute to the conference.
It´s probably "healthy" to feel like this from time to time, but it´s NOT fun :/
Of course, the rational part of me tell me it´s not entirely true that I have nothing, but, well, feelings...:P The best thing I can do right now is probably to go to sleep; so that´s exactly what I´m planning on doing in just five minutes 😉
Wish me luck, please <3
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