Professor Blue

Anyone here know about nuclear reactors using Thorium? I just did some research on and an interview of someone who collects radioactive antiques. He fell across a Wired article Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors - and did got enthused by what they purport to offer - clean energy that's nearly impossible to be weaponized. I did some reading as well and came across a couple of mentions about how the US had started testing Thorium in the 1950s-1960s but abandoned this in favor of Uranium reactors due to the showdown ability of weaponized Uranium, potential deterrents against the Soviets. Does anyone here know who would be the person / persons responsible for making the decision to veer away from Thorium? My blog post is here -- http://professorblue.com/thorium-radiation-light-never-goes/ I'm also interested in hearing from others - especially scientists and engineers - who have a viewpoint about the efficacy of the US switching to LFTRs. Sounds so good, too good to be true, almost. Which is usually a red flag. Thanks!

Oops - you're right Nevada for Cliven Bundy. Which is still not in the US south. As for this: ...what are you referring to? Carries more weight where, and how exactly? Two more quotes that I find to be both contradictory and right on: @cartoon_physics: "It's astonishing how many people in science ignore data until they're confronted with anecdotes." @DNLee5: "Science requires data to believe anecdotes but won't believe the data until there are powerful anecdotes. ~ This is crazy think/talk" Then there's this, where a citizen finds the Ferguson PD to be outright liars. https://storify.com/VeryWhiteGuy/shaunking-exposes-ferguson-pd-lie-about-distance-f The thing about news and science is that people report the news. People are scientists and 'do' science. Science isn't a thing found on its own in nature. If you have a small representative sample in every field, no matter the field, you're not including a good enough sample of humanity. Which skews the data. Doesn't tell a good story. And so on.

Unfortunately, even when people from under-represented groups are qualified to the nth degree, they still encounter huge hurdles that are simply not there for ... (insert white guy term here). Here's a recent Huffington Post article written by a women student at MIT. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-selvidge/pushing-women-and-people-_b_5840392.html?&ir=Science&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000047 This has been shared by a lot of academics and scientists, including the likes of @DNLee5 (her twitter account), among others. She's tweeted a lot about Ferguson in particular, and also about being a black woman scientist. One tweet of hers in particular caught my attention: "What I witnessed y'day on Twitter was a mass of ppl shock & awed at a problem that is happening daily, right in front of their eyes. " She could have been discussing any number of issues and this tweet would easily apply. Back to Ferguson. You have black people who experience being black in America. And some white people in power making that experience worse. There's a writer named Digby who has been documenting an increase in abuses by members of the police force in the US with regard to using tasers. Stand Your Ground Laws hurt people of color disproportionately. And for what it's worth? Missouri is a state that is not part of the South. Racism exists everywhere in the US. Lest we forget the Cliven Bundy brouhaha in Montana, for example.

A very interesting article I will also share it thanks especially the wave power making fresh water ! That is cool!

Climate Change, Chaos, and The Little Ice Age: How the History of the 13th - 19thC informs us about climate change today. Wars, famine, migration, SPAM? Shakespeare? Sometimes we like to think that math and science don have anything to do with the humanities. How we live in our world isn't shaped by our environment. But of course it is. We are shaping our environment; our environment is also shaping us. url deleted EXCELLENT short video by the guy who wrote ‚The Fault in Our Stars‚.

water is everywhere underground ...all over ....we are made up of almost 90% of water....icebergs are huge water icecubes....

Water is really really important, I write books about this and make videos to explain to kids what is going on.....a water shortage can be the next big war but till then lets start working towards better ways of not wasting water...and doing all we can to stop that from really happening ! Follow my link to learn more!