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Hillary Jordan • Anonymous Sex
Her discovery may have been crucial to creating the atomic bomb, but she wanted nothing to do with it nor wanted to be depicted in films about it. And I believe Meitner’s refusal to participate in the weaponization of her work on moral grounds makes her more worthy of commemoration than Oppenheimer. She chose humanity over notoriety.
Olivia Campbell • Lauding Lise Meitner, Who Said ‘No’ to the Atomic Bomb
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Shore Leave • Like Shining From Shook Foil
Consider the precipitous drop in American crime in the mid-1990s. One hypothesis is that the drop stemmed from a single piece of legislation, the Clean Air Act, which required automobiles to switch from leaded gasoline to unleaded. With less lead in the air, crime saw a significant drop twenty-three years later. It turns out high lead levels in the
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