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...public," he says. "In a weird way that often means you have to fail in public too. I became a poster child for the '80s." In the past few years, Longo has begun showing work again in New York Citydrawings of Sigmund Freud's apartment, waves and atom-bomb blasts. "An artist should know art history," he now concludes. "Shock value only lasts so long...
DIED. HANS BETHE, 98, last of the scientific titans who helped devise the atom bomb for the U.S. government's top-secret Manhattan Project; in Ithaca, N.Y. Before heading the theoretical-physics division at Los Alamos, the brilliant, unpretentious refugee from Nazi Germany took on an age-old mystery, the question of precisely how the sun and stars keep burning, and solved it in six weeks. Later a vocal proponent of disarmament, he criticized Ronald Reagan's Star Wars plan in the 1980s, saying, "We need to try to understand the other fellow and try to come to some agreement...
Student input on issues surrounding nuclear weapons and terrorism is important to aiding the government in coping with nuclear proliferation, according to James Walsh, executive director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Managing The Atom (MTA) project, who spoke last night at an event in the Quincy House Senior Common Room...
...have supplied a uranium compound to Libya for its weapons labs. The gaseous compound, known as uranium hexafluoride (UF6), is a precursor to bomb-grade uranium, something bombmakers feed into centrifuges to harvest the highly fissionable isotope uranium-235 (U-235) that is at the heart of an atom bomb. Though UF6 is hard to make, it's possible to track: forensic tests focus on trace isotopes, such as U-234, whose prevalence differs from country to country and even from mine to mine. After the U.S. gained access to Tripoli's bombmaking labs a year ago, it ran tests...
Leaving for the holidays has made me really nostalgic for music that reminds me of home, so recently I’ve been listening to a lot of X, Tragedy, Tear It Up, Harum Scarum, Charles Bronson, D.R.I., Husker Du, and Atom Kinder. I’ve really gotten into Lightning Bolt over the past couple of weeks, and both Mecca Normal and Heroin have made more than a few appearances on my turntable. While I’m studying, I lean towards Murder by Death and Billie Holiday. In terms of shows, I recently saw (and loved) Lucky Dragons...