August 2010
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Idaho National Lab: America’s Nuclear Epicenter
Last week I traveled to Idaho Falls along with PopAtomic Student Advisor Jim Bowen to tour portions of the Idaho National Lab and give a short presentation about PopAtomic Studios. I was invited by Todd Allen, Scientific Director of the Advanced Test Reactor, and he was kind enough to take us all over the campus which starts in the city and sprawls out into the desert, surrounded by monolithic...
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Art-Based Nuclear Outreach Proves Successful
We here at PopAtomic have been formulating ways to use art to effectively reach young people with critical information about nuclear energy for some time now. I am excited to report that our first major Educational Outreach effort at Chattahoochee Technical College in Atlanta confirmed our theory that art can make learning about nuclear energy a fun and empowering experience.
As a part of their...
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“Wall Street Subsidiary Open for Business!” (It’s...
Anemic growth in economic indicators has a number of savvy observers worried, most notably the Federal Reserve. The July jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics looks bad enough, but dig beneath the statistical obfuscation and our situation appears downright dire. Last month saw the loss of 131,000 jobs, and job losses in June were revised up from 125,000 to 221,000. The...
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Classic Albums: Blood on the Tracks
There are breakups, and then there are Breakups. If you’ve encountered the latter, the kind where you sit in desperate silence longing for a way out of the daily misery that stings your soul every time you think about your ex, well, then you can feel the pain in Dylan’s voice on Blood on the Tracks. I’ve had a few breakups here and there, but only one can measure up to...
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'Nothing New' Doesn't Mean What it Used to: The...
Government officials, abetted by a complicit media, have repeatedly denounced the disclosure of the “Afghan War Diary” documents, made available by the organization Wikileaks, as an irresponsible and largely irrelevant act, since excerpts first appeared in print last Sunday. I can only suspect that the assorted Secretaries and Pentagon brass who have gone on record as stating that the leaks...
