A nuclear storage pool is also called a spent fuel pool. They are used for cooling used fuel assemblies from nuclear reactors, and they are at least 40 feet deep. But with the nuclear stuff at the bottom, I wouldn't even...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/10/How-Dangerous-Would-It-Be-to-Swim-in-a-Nuclear-Storage-Pool/Remember when you first learned the word "defenestration"? It means throwing someone out of a window. You were probably amused that there was a word for such a specific act, yet you were also appalled because it happens...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/10/Where-Defenestration-Was-Born/Joaquin Phoenix returns as Arthur Fleck in the sequel to Joker titled Joker: Folie à Deux. The Joker is still seriously mentally ill, of course, but this time he's in love! Fleck is plenty menaci...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/10/iJoker-Folie-Deuxi-Gets-Its-First-Trailer/A little nod to Peter Higgs, to mark his passing. I interviewed him at Cheltenham Science Festival a few years ago, and asked him to sign this silly note, which he was delighted to do! There are only two of these in ex...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/04/10/Single-Higgs-Boson-Particle-Authenticated-by-Peter-Higgs/Daniel Whiteson is a particle physicist at the University of California at Irvine. Along with Jorge Cham, the cartoonist behind PHD Comics, he hosts the podcast Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe. This podcast ma...
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