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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

RADIATION QUIZ

An interesting & amusing quiz on the terrors of atomic radiation. Hint - regular readers will probably do well as it fits with what I said last month about Chernobyl & previous posts on hormesis.

http://www.richel.org/radiation/welcome.php

Of course the benficial effects to health of being bitten by radioactive spiders are well known.

Labels: Hormesis

// posted by neil craig @ 12:39 pm

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Excellent letter from Mr Craig. He is like a lone wolf howling in despair in the intellectual wilderness of our politics.

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