On show 39, Shane and I talked a bit about Polonium and the Litvinenko poisoning. A friend of mine sent me a link to a useful article in the Toronto Star titled Killer radiation safer than you think. If you want to learn more about the substance, its uses and risks, this is a good place to start.
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Every once in a while, I skim through Google Analytics to learn a little more about the people who are visiting Atomic Insights. (My title is making the assumption that most visitors are actually reading the pages that they land on.) Here is the most recent global map. I’m not sure why the east coast…
This is a personal reflection of an event that altered world history. If you are already overwhelmed by other stories and coverage of the event, please forgive me, read something else and come back to Atomic Insights later. In July 2001, I was transferred from my job as the Associate Chairman of the Weapons and…
Several months ago, I interviewed Ruth Sponsler, an amateur mineral collector. Ruth also runs a blog titled We Support Lee, which is named for a proposed new nuclear power station in Ruth’s home state of North Carolina, located in the southeast section of the United States. Ruth recently wrote a rather detailed post titled The…
Though The Atomic Show does not play music – yet – I am a big fan of independence and the idea that artists do not benefit much from big music labels. One way to show the power of independent music artists is a promotion called Bum Rush The Charts. The idea is that podcast listeners…
I apologize for my lack of shows during the past couple of weeks. Summer is always a challenging time – there is less news, potential guests are out of town, and there are always competing activities that can take the place of putting together a show. I hope you all forgive me, but it sure…
During episode number 22, Shane and I begin with a rant about people like George Monbiot, the author of a recent article titled Sure, nuclear power is safer than in the past – but we still don’t need it. Our big beef is that he accepts a fossil fuel industry supported notion that it is…
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