Peter Olausson

Peter Olausson
Born (1971-11-06)November 6, 1971
Långekärr, Tjörn, Sweden
Occupation Author
Nationality Sweden
Genre Factoids
Literary movement Skeptical movement
Notable works Faktoider
Website
Official website

Peter Gustav Olausson, born 6 November 1971,[1] is a Swedish author and webmaster. Since 2003 he has had a special interest for factoids,[2] which he has collected and described on the Internet as well as in several books.[3][4]

Biography

Olausson was born and raised on Tjörn.[5] He is educated in computational linguistics and works as a webmaster.[6]

Since 2003 Olausson has been collecting factoids, a term that has been compared to "urban legend".[3] He has described and published these on the Internet and in several books.[7] The first book was published in 2008, and book number three in the series has been transalted to Norwegian.[5]

In 2009 he participated in the radio series Mytjägarna, in which Olausson och the program leader Tobias Svanelid searched for popular misconceptions, factoids and myths. The eight programs in the program series have since been on replay several times, the last time the summer of 2012.[8]

Peter Olausson has been a board member of the Swedish Skeptics Association on various occasions[9] and since 2017 he is chairman of the association.[10] Since 2012 he is board member of the association's Gothernburg chapter and since 2015 its chairman.[11]

References

  1. ↑ Folkbokföringsdata. Ratsit.se. Read 2013-06-23.
  2. ↑ Forum. "Peter Olausson - Forum". www.forum.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-01-24.
  3. 1 2 Gellerfelt, Mars (2008-03-16): "Detta har kanske nästan hänt". Svd.se. Läst 24 januari 2017
  4. ↑ "Faktoider : försanthållna osanningar, halvsanningar och missuppfattningar av Peter Olausson - LitteraturMagazinet". LitteraturMagazinet (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-01-24.
  5. 1 2 "Om faktoider". Faktoider.nu. Läst 23 juni 2013.
  6. ↑ "Peter Olausson: "Ett 'puh!' från stenåldern"". Historiska ord (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-01-24.
  7. ↑ "Nazitysklands faktoider som mordredskap". www.unt.se. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
  8. ↑ "Om programmet – Mytjägarna". Archived 2013-06-29 at Archive.is Sverigesradio.se. Läst 23 juni 2013.
  9. ↑ "Intervju med Peter Olausson". Archived 2014-04-13 at the Wayback Machine. 1av3.se. Läst 12 april 2014.
  10. ↑ "Riksstyrelsen". vof.se. Läst 26 april 2016.
  11. ↑ VoF Göteborg
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