Archive for March 6th, 2008
Chernobyl: the legacy
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 6, 2008
- In: chernobyl | leaving cert | legacy | misconceptions | Physics | radiation
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Photo from Jeremy Nicholl on flickr I have mentioned this before, but it’s worth throwing it up again (and again) Given the low radiation doses received by most people exposed to the Chernobyl accident, no effects on fertility, numbers of stillbirths, adverse pregnancy outcomes or delivery complications have been demonstrated nor are there expected to [...]
If one death is a tragedy . . .
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 6, 2008
- In: lawrence of cyberia | smoking | stalin | who
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If Stalin got it right, and “One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic”, what is half a billion? 10 facts on the tobacco epidemic and global tobacco control From the World Health Organisation: WHO Lawrence of Cyberia has her own wonderful take on this quote.
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