Radiation
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Low Levels of Prolonged Radiation Exposure Not Risky to Health
Turns out you can plop yourself amongst over 200 times the average level of background radiation for as long as you’d like, it’s probably not going to hurt you all that much. Despite popular thought that any radiation exposure increases...
And Then There Was The Time They Sold Golf Balls With a Radioactive Core
This one is going straight on my “Do Not Want” list. Apparently, back in the good old days of 1910, the Worthington Golf Ball Company produced golf balls with a radium-laced core. Known as the “Ball of Mystery that never loses life or...
The Man Who Took A Proton Beam To The Face And Lived
Meet Anatoli Petrovich Bugorski. He was a Russian scientist studying high energy physics when he accidentally stuck his face in the path of a proton beam being generated by a particle accelerator. Reportedly, he saw a flash “brighter than...