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Friday, January 2, 2015

Manhattan's janus children, transitional era boomers born 1940-1956

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I am a member of the transitional era boomer generation (born 1940-1956) : we historical few who experienced both the waning of modernity a...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Manhattan '45 : Janus year (on the Janus campus) in the Janus city

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Ah, yes the year 1945 : it was the best of times , it was the worst of times. It just all very much depended on who you chose to listen to...

'Running against New York City' secret of OSRD and NAS wartime success in Washington

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In 1940 New York City and New York State were at the very height of their power in the United States. At that time, they even retained a v...

earth-shattering Hiroshima Bomb had but one millionth the power of 1997 El Nino

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Instead of always writing that this or that weather system packs the punch of x number of A bombs or H bombs , why not reflect for a moment ...

"Janus Manhattan" : home to both wartime's synthetic plutonium death-dealing and to natural penicillin lifesaving

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Why write fictions about Manhattan --- when its real life is so much more exciting than anything Hollywood screenwriters could ever dream up...

"Climate Hubrists" : deniers of any limits to human ability to control reality

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I separate Holocaust deniers from Climate Change deniers, I really do. Most Holocaust deniers deny that the event ever happened - and cont...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Stanley Baldwin : through rain, sleet, or snow - in a triumph of the will - the bomber always gets through, like Superman they're faster than a speeding bullet

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Other than by specialists , Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of Britain is little remembered today --- except for this simple and rather commo...
Monday, December 29, 2014

Enough already about War's impact on Nature : what about Nature's impact on War ?

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With only the very best of intentions, environmentalists have tended to focus on what war does to nature - say for example, in reviewing the...

Manhattan's OTHER Project : Gotham's penicillin un-superheroes (and why they are ignored by academics)

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If another secretive, undemocratic, big science Manhattan Project is more likely to cause a global environmental disaster (think nuclear w...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Manhattan Projects cause (rather than end) global environmental disasters

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The year of 1945 was an unalloyed triumph for modernity thanks to  Allied big science's A-bomb decisively defeating the pre-modernity Ax...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Since Manhattan Project caused first global environmental crisis, it can hardly solve the new one ...

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If your baby isn't dying from an overdose of Strontium 90 from mother's breast milk , it isn't for want of trying on the part of...

'Weaponizing' the Wind

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The Allies actively 'weaponized' the wind to increase the lethalness of two death-creators during WWII (fire bombs and atomic radiat...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

1943 : War Movie vs Film Noir , Captain America comics vs Joe & Willy comics

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I would argue - I do argue - that the most Noirish 'gotcha' of all WWII was the simple one panel Bill Mauldin cartoon that won him ...
Monday, December 22, 2014

Noirs & Music Videos : share same basic narrative structure

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The classic Noir narrative structure is a deliberately disorienting mix of two main activities. One (the frame) features reflective and re...
Sunday, December 21, 2014

When they stopped making noirs, they stopped making babies : the Noir & Baby Boom, 1940-1959

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Why I don't know. Maybe I got it completely backwards , maybe when they stopped making babies they stopped making Noirs. I just don...

'Rogue Boomers' : optimistic, naive

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If we ever do encounter a 'spot of bother' (their words) over global warming, Rogue Boomers fervently expect the engineering equiv...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Elizabeth May - unlike Stephen Harper - is NOT a 'Rogue Boomer'

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It is interesting to speculate why Elizabeth May, so similar in age to Stephen Harper, is so different in her attitude. While Elizabeth is...

First Wave Boomers must help transition Second Wave Boomers into the new world

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My history professor, J udith Fingard (born in 1943) , myself (born in 1951) and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (born in 1959) are a...

why focus on Allied FAILURES of WWII ?

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Why not focus on the Axis failures of WWII ? Why not, you say, use a sawed-off shotgun at short range on a big fish in a small barrel ? ...

'Rogue Boomers' : Running our world ; ruining our planet

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When one thinks of Rogue Boomers, one immediately thinks of people like prime ministers Stephen Harper (born 1959) and Tony Abbott (born 195...