New Take on Impacts of Low Dose Radiation « Berkeley Lab News Center
I first heard about the LNT (linear non-threshold theory) of the health effects of radiation exposure via Prof. Lenz’s blog (I couldn’t find a search function on the blog, but here are a couple of items that came up in a Yahoo search: Bernard Cohen on LNT junk science and Nobuo Ikeda on LNT and [...]
“Our fathers lied”
Image via Wikipedia 24hGold, a website devoted to precious metals, includes a randomly selected relevant quotation. Today’s: If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied. This anti-war sentiment is uncharacteristic of Kipling, and so I had to look it up: where did it come from? When and why did he write [...]
Work till you drop… it’ll stave off Alzheimer’s!
Image via Wikipedia Well, well. First we get this reminder from the Telegraph (reminding us of who is really working for whom) and then barely two weeks later, this from the BBC: Keeping the brain active by working later in life may be an effective way to ward off Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests. There’s a [...]
