Research

They possess charisma and score goals for our favourite teams. This is how we are influenced by today’s football heroes.

According to professors at UiA, the role of Christianity in shaping the development of society has been given too little attention in Norwegian historical writing. 

The weather forecast used to be presented through words, but today it is conveyed using tables and symbols. Researchers at the University of Agder (UiA) believe this implies that people may have a greater aptitude for mathematics than they realise.

Interest rates are on the rise, inflation is surging, and prices are going up. But what does this mean, and how does it all work? Two economists have answers. 

Poor women with weak social ties were more often accused of witchcraft. And the punishment for this was brutal.