[ RadSafe ] Re: The (IEM) e-Newsletter -Psychoceramics ["Cracked Pot"] experts?

[Maury Siskel]

Thoroughly enjoyed your note below on psychoceramics. And the 
information about Dr.  Carberry. A hot Friday made! Thanks.
Cheers,
Maury&Dog        maurysis at ev1.net
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farbersa at optonline.net wrote:

> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:54:10 -0400 (EDT), <BergerIEM at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> Clearly input from a  "psychohistorian", much like Isaac
>> Asimov described in The Foundation  Trilogy, will be a "must".
>
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> Dear colleagues,
> Carol's mention of the potential input from a  "psychohistorian" to 
> model  doses over 1,000,000 years or more reminded me that my 
> undergrad school,  Brown University had a running joke that Dr. Josiah 
> F. Carberry,   Professor-emeritus of psycho-ceramics [or an expert in 
> "cracked pots"] was  visiting the campus.
>
> Several times each year [and always on April 1st] Dr. Carberry had a  
> lecture scheduled on campus or was seen fleetingly and only the tail 
> of  his overcoat photographed as he dashed around a corner and 
> published in  the daily student paper. Of course, Carberry never 
> showed up for his  lectures and no one ever got a look at his face.
>
> Since ceramic matrix materials are planned to be used to stabilize 
> some  high-level nuclear waste, it would seem in addition to a 
> "psychohistorian"  Yucca and other projects will need to secure the 
> expert services of one or  more "psychoceramicists" to have the needed 
> input on "cracked pots".
>
>
> Stewart Farber
> Consulting Scientist
> 1285 Wood Ave.
> Bridgeport, CT 06604
> [203] 367-0791 [office]
>