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The UN Nuclear Ban Treaty is Leading Resistance to Nuclear Autocracy

Union of Concerned Scientists

The 2MSP heard how post-war US secrecy around the atomic bomb fostered significant discrimination towards hibakusha in Japan. That dehumanization and disregard for human life was also central in nuclear testing across the world. She described how her father heard the ground shake and felt the “black smoke” move over their lands.

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Environmental Justice, Truck Pollution, and the Biden EPA

Legal Planet

I was interested to see how environmental justice figured into the analysis, looking for clues about how the Biden Administration plans to make EJ part of decision making. What’s in the notice of proposed rule making leaves a lot of open questions. I did find two discussions of environmental justice, on pp.

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A “Hunger Catastrophe” in the Making

Legal Planet

Experts contend that by limiting trade these protectionist measures will only make the global food crisis worse —further disrupting the ability to move supplies around the world and making life that much harder for those countries and their populations that depend upon food imports.

Politics 221
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Simulations offer observational test for Planet Nine hypothesis

Physics World

Crucially, this gathering of TNOs did not materialise in low-inclination orbits in the simulation of an eight-planet solar system. The results therefore suggest that a search for real-life, low-inclination orbit, TNOs in faraway regions might offer insights into the presence, or not, of the hypothetical Planet Nine.

2023 136
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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Their work has revealed to them one of the darker sides of rural life in Nebraska. Fresh attention to a persistent drinking water problem in farm country did not happen overnight. A week of rest and antibiotics did not subdue the sickness. A CT scan did, too. In short time the rituals of Jacob’s life shifted.

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How Stephen Hawking became the world’s most famous physicist

Physics World

Hawking Hawking begins with a chapter entitled “Next to Newton”, which describes both the position Hawking occupies in the public psyche and his physical burial place in Westminster Abbey in London, where his ashes were interred following his death in March 2018 at the age of 76.

2014 138
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Francesca Altieri – From Maths to Mars

Frontiers

In this interview, our discussion is focused on how culture and tradition amongst families affect our decisions to pursue a career completely outside the expectations of our parents. Furthermore, we focus on the importance of taking big leaps of faith as well as how taking these leaps allows you to discover your own hidden talents.