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Fun With Sodium Explosions..

http://www.theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Stories/011.2/ I’d read about, and heard stories about, throwing sodium into water. It’s a classic thing chemistry students do in college, and based on the reports I have been able to find on the internet, they are...

Hunting For Dirty Bombs..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36157-2002Nov10.html Hunting a Deadly Soviet Legacy Concerns About ‘Dirty Bomb’ Drive Efforts to Find Radioactive Cesium By Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, November 11, 2002; Page A01...

Cellular Telephony A Victim Of Its Own Success..

Worth it for the chart (sorry about the attachment).. -Ian. —— http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/technology/18CELL.html November 18, 2002 Success of Cellphone Industry Hurts Service By SIMON ROMERO Americans’ use of cellphones has increased so...

Dump It On Africa..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,12188,842892,00.html Got a sticky problem? Don’t worry, you can always dump it on Africa Leaking oil tanker towed south after Europe says ‘not in my back yard’ Giles Tremlett in Caion, north-west Spain Tuesday...

You Are A Suspect..

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/14/opinion/14SAFI.html November 14, 2002 You Are a Suspect By WILLIAM SAFIRE WASHINGTON — If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make with a credit card, every...