I’ve been reading, and enjoying, Ann Finkbeiner’s The Jasons: The Secret History of Science’s Postwar Elite, an account of the Jason scientific advisory panel. One chapter details a Jason study that led to the deployment of two extremely low frequency (ELF) radio transmitters in Wisconsin and Michigan to communicate with submarines deep underwater: Besides nonattenuation, …
Get Enriched or Die Tryin'
by | 2006-04-21 | 1 Comment
I missed The Daily Show but reliable sources tell me that was the headline. Update: A reader sends along the link. Jon Stewart is brilliant.
Iran News Online
by | 2006-04-19 | 7 Comments
Some of you may be regular readers of Managing the Atom’s Iran News—a daily e-mail compilation of news stories related to Iran and the nuclear fuel cycle. We’ve moved the service online, supplemented by a weekly e-mail summary. http://www.managing-the-atom.org/ The site focuses on providing short news summaries and the odd opinion piece. The whole thing …
Thank You James Nagelberg
by | 2006-04-19 | 4 Comments
I received the following note in the mail yesterday, from reader and friend James Nagelberg. The note accompanied a box containing a sweet Y-12 mug (shown at right) packed in crumpled paper. For those of you who don’t know: The Y‑12 National Security Complex is a premier manufacturing facility dedicated to making our nation and …
