[ RadSafe ] Hiroshima Syndrome exposed as subtle butsignificantwidespread psychosis predicated on fictions!

[Ted de Castro]

My inspiration to science was Mr. Wizard.  That format can be very 
educational and inspirational to kids.

On 12/6/2011 9:21 PM, Dan W McCarn wrote:
> Dear Ahmad&  Franz:
>
> I grew-up reading George Gamow's brilliant "Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland" and
> "Mr. Tompkins Explores the Atom".  My copies have my early artistic attempts
> in crayon.  My dad placed them on the bedside table when I was 6 or 7 years
> old.  I must have read those books 100 times!
>
> "Mr Tompkins has become known and loved by many thousands of readers (since
> his first appearance over seventy years ago) as the bank clerk whose
> fantastic dreams and adventures lead him into a world inside the atom.
> George Gamow's classic provides a delightful explanation of the central
> concepts in modern physics, from atomic structure to relativity, and quantum
> theory to fusion and fission. Roger Penrose's new foreword introduces Mr
> Tompkins to a new generation of readers, and reviews his adventures in the
> light of current developments in physics today."
>
> They make dandy Winter Solstice presents!
>
> http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/tompkins.pdf
>
> I gave my daughters copies of these great books when they were old enough to
> read!
>
> Dan ii
>
> P.S. Franz - Did the Krampus come to Vienna yesterday?  Did you get a lump
> of coal?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Ahmad Al-Ani
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 21:18
> To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu; franz.schoenhofer at chello.at
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Hiroshima Syndrome exposed as subtle
> butsignificantwidespread psychosis predicated on fictions!
>
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 12:26 AM  J. Marshall Reber wrote:
>
> "Much of the anti nuclear power sentiments are successfully promulgated
> because of the lack of scientific input in the education of many youngsters"
>
> Eloquently said indeed, particularly when the issue is put for public voting
> these days. A vote is a vote, and we, the "Know It All" people, are not that
> many to tip the voting results one way or another.
>
> We, again the "Know it All'ers", have failed miserably in simplifying the
> facts about anything radiation and nuclear, so that the topic becomes a
> public knowledge, enough to gain an educated vote, rather than keeping the
> science for experts only.
>
> Unfortunately, we inherited a bad habit of keeping things for ourselves, as
> most of the work done by the  nuclear pioneers was in clandestine nuclear
> projects, Manhattan to name the "worst" example.
>
>
> Ahmad Al-Ani
> Radiation Physicist
>
>> On Dec 6, 2011, at 3:17 PM,<franz.schoenhofer at chello.at>  wrote:
>>
>>> j, Marshall Reber,
>>>
>>> I would have believed that RADSAFE is a scientific platform for
> scientific professionals.
>> Franz, indeed that is so.  My impression is that much of the anti nuclear
> power sentiments are successfully promulgated because of the lack of
> scientific input in the education of many youngsters.  Much of this is due
> to misdirected governmental influences as discussed by Leslie Corrice, whose
> experiences as he discusses are primarily in the U.S.  My hope is that
> scientific professionals would be more vocal, not within Radsafe, but within
> lay persons' venues, after contemplating Leslie Corrice's presentations.
>> J. Marshall Reber, ScD
>> 165 Berkeley St.
>> Methuen MA 01844
>>
>> Tel/Fax: 978-683-6540
>> Alternate Email: reber at alum.mit.edu
>>
>>
>>
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