So The Board thought of something for Holocaust Remembrance Day almost a day late. Like many bass players my age, Geddy Lee of Rush was a huge influence on my decision to take up bass guitar. But what I didn’t know until just not that long ago was that Geddy’s parents were Holocaust survivors. In […]
Read more "A Belated Holocaust Remembrance Day Post"Had too much band rehearsal last week. The Board will get back to the INF Treaty next week. Today we will take a visit to Oak Ridge National Laboratories and hear Rose Boll explain how her department extracts and refines radioisotopes from what the folks at Oak Ridge call “legacy material”. This is fascinating stuff. […]
Read more "Nuclear Friday: Cancer Cures from Radioactive Waste"A couple of weeks ago The Board posted a video of a talk by Eric Schlosser, author of Command and Control. He argues that the United States needs to have a public discussion about nuclear weapons policy. We can’t know what weapons we should have without clarity about the goals of having such weapons. Schlosser also […]
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