Paul, did you build an atomic bomb?

Only a little one. Boing Boing had this quite a while ago, but I just ran across it courtesy of Dubious Quality. The A.C. Gilbert company sold educational science sets back in the 50′s, and one of their less successful offerings was the Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab sold from 1950-51.

One-Star Mondays: the beginning

One of my favorite blogs, Radley Balko’s The Agitator has a great feature called Five-Star Fridays where Radley shares some of his favorite music every Friday. However, just as light cannot exist without dark, and good cannot exist without evil, great music can only exist if there is truly awful music with which to compare [...]

Radiation therapy wait times in the US and Canada

One issue that comes up in the discussion of nationalized health care is wait times.  We’ve all heard horror stories about patients having to wait for seemingly insanely long periods of time before receiving the sort of basic medical care we take for granted in the United States.  It’s hard to take anecdotal evidence seriously, [...]

Need swine flu info?

There are a lot of rumors and unsubstantiated reports flying around the internet about the swine flu outbreak in Mexico. A large information vacuum has been created by the lack of openness by the World Health Organization and the Mexican government. If you want a good source of information, the best place to go is [...]