Norway Ran Out of Butter Because the Entire Country Ate It For Some Fad Diet
Believe it or not, Norway is out of butter. Like seriously. According to Reuters, they've got none. Zero. Zilch. Null. Hilariously, it's all because of a fad diet that demands people eat more fat. You...
View ArticleNorway’s Selling a Super Villain Starter Set
You can’t very well take over the world from your parent’s basement, now can you? No, a proper arch-nemesis needs a sufficiently intimidating hidden base. Luckily, Norway is selling off its defunct...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Sorry Over Cock-Themed PR Disaster
Microsoft showed us all how not to motivate the developer troops at its Azure platform party in Norway last week. It busted out a Microsoft developer song that included baffling references to hard...
View ArticleThis Coiled Cultural Centre Could Be the Guggenheim’s Long Lost Cousin
This spiraling building is the proposed design for a cultural centre in Norway. Look familiar? It reminds us of a stripped-down Guggenheim Museum. The building was imagined by Portuguese firm Cerejeira...
View ArticleA Norse Town Has Built an Artificial Sun to Light Up Its 5-Month Night
The far north (or south) isn’t the only place on Earth that spends the winter locked in perpetual darkness. Beginning in September and ending in March, the tiny Norwegian town of Rjukan is cast into a...
View ArticleNorway Is Overrun With Plastic-Covered Corpses That Refuse to Rot
Norway’s got a major corpse problem that isn’t going away anytime soon. Literally, they won’t rot. What’s the culprit behind this profusion of bodies that refuse to take their place in the circle of...
View ArticleWhy Norway Might Have to Tear Down These Massive Picasso Murals
Norway finds itself in a tough conundrum after a terrorist attack crippled a pair of Brutalist buildings in downtown Oslo. Tearing down the buildings is one thing—they’re crumbling, controversial and,...
View ArticleThis Norwegian Road Tunnel Exists Solely to Set Fire to Things
The Runehamar Tunnel on the west coast of Norway is a piece of disused underground road infrastructure that has found an unexpected second life through its new and bizarre purpose: it now exists solely...
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