In 1945, after atomic bomb detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, several former Manhattan Project scientists founded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Publishing continuously since 1945, its current deputy editor, science writer DanDrollette, is also a Slashdot reader, and shared one of the nonprofit magazine’s thought-provoking new interviews:
In 2012, author David Quammen wrote a book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next…
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Will Cellphone Tracing Bring a Tolerance of Surveillance?
An anonymous reader quotes the Washington Post:
In a matter of months, tens of millions of people in dozens of countries have been placed under surveillance. Governments, private companies and researchers observe the health, habits and movements of citizens, often without their consent. It is a massive effort, aimed at enforcing quarantine rules or tracing the spread of the coronavirus, that has…
What was the Manhattan Project?
Hundreds of thousands of Americans participated in the Manhattan Project. Most of them had no idea. Source: https://www.livescience.com/manhattan-project.html
The end of the world: A history of how a silent cosmos led humans to fear the worst
It is 1950 and a group of scientists are walking to lunch against the majestic backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. They are about to have a conversation that will become scientific legend. The scientists are at the Los Alamos Ranch School, the site for the Manhattan Project, where each of the group has lately played their part in ushering in the…
Trump: We ‘Will Take a Look’ Into Peter Thiel’s Claims of Google Working With China
President Trump said this week his administration will “take a look” into Google following statements made earlier this week by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel. From a report: “Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason,” Trump said in a tweet. “He accuses Google of working with the Chinese Government… A great and brilliant guy who knows…
What You Didn’t Know About the Apollo 11 Mission
“From JFK’s real motives to the Soviets’ secret plot to land on the Moon at the same time, a new behind-the-scenes view of an unlikely triumph 50 years ago,” writes schwit1 sharing a new article from Smithsonian magazine titled “What You Didn’t Know About the Apollo 11 Mission.” It’s an excerpt from the recently-released book ONE GIANT LEAP: The Impossible Mission…
What They Left Behind: Legacies of the Recently Departed
Some gems from the life’s work of people remembered in obituaries in The New York Times. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/obituaries/what-they-left-behind-legacies-of-the-recently-departed.html?partner=rss&emc=rss…