Articles by Onar Åm

Media treat the Coronavirus as a potential pandemic, but many experts regard it as not particularly dangerous. While the virus can be deadly, there is some evidence that information technology is preventing a pandemic. Background Despite living in a globalized… Read More

Every day, you use oil products that make your life better and easier. Thanks to advances in a technology called hydraulic fracturing – “fracking” for short – America now has plenty of oil and gas and doesn’t have to rely… Read More

If you have ever been on a tropical island, you may have experienced that as the sun rises, the temperature shoots up, only to start falling a few hours later due to the formation of clouds. Then, after increasing again… Read More

For years, wind turbines have been thought of as a sustainable alternative to fossil fuels like coal and oil. However, since the 1980s, there have been reports of noise, nausea, and headaches by neighbors. The culprits are infrasound and subsonic… Read More

As fires have ravaged large parts of the Australian wilderness, many have blamed manmade climate change. But while people are largely to blame for many of these fires, it is in far more direct ways than climate change. Over the… Read More

Mars is a simple planet compared to Earth. There is almost no atmosphere, there are no oceans, and the planet has only trace amounts of water. Its climate should be very simple to model, predict, and understand, but Mars is… Read More

Pro-democracy protests have been going on in Hong Kong for several months. Student demonstrations continue against new laws imposed by the central Chinese government in Beijing. Some of the protests turned violent, and the group appeared to shrink to a… Read More

Some say that capitalism leads to a greater gap between the rich and the poor, but the middle class didn’t exist before capitalism. Around the world, people who live in socialist countries are not more equal than those who reside… Read More

Astronomers keep discovering new planets they don’t understand. Recently, they found a huge planet around a small star named GJ 3512. According to their theories, it shouldn’t exist. It is too large, and it’s made of gas. The Old View… Read More

You may have heard that humans are destroying the planet by using fossil fuels that release a gas called carbon dioxide (CO2). Many scientists agree that CO2 traps heat and leads to global warming. And worse: It is happening very… Read More

According to recent reports, 9,000 fires are raging in the Amazon rainforest. Many people have described the situation as a crisis and believe the area may soon be destroyed. While the fires are a problem, this is not the first time… Read More

President Donald Trump was scheduled to visit Denmark, but he announced on August 20 that he would not go. The president canceled the trip due to Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s harsh public rejection of Trump’s offer to buy Greenland…. Read More