How Does Isotopic Dating Work?
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Dear Dr. Zoomie – every now and again I read about isotopic dating being used ...
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Olden Days of Radium: Patent Medicine’s Risky Practice?
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Patent medicine – with radioactivity! Hey Dr. Z – I heard something about people actually ...
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The Bomb: A Deep Dive into the Oppenheimer Film
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Hey Dr. Zoomie – I’ve heard about the new Oppenheimer movie. It sounds pretty good…but ...
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The Unseen Danger: A Close Look at The Radium Girls
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The Radium Girls Hi, Dr. Zoomie – so I’ve been reading this book called The ...
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A century ago was a heady time to be a physicist – new phenomena, new ...
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Roentgen’s discovery of x-rays was easily the most exciting scientific discovery of its time. Here ...
Read moreThe Golden Age of Radium
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Marie Curie was perhaps the first “rock star” scientist – she was smart, hard-working, attractive, ...
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When I was in the Navy, at one point I got to stand watch for ...
Read moreAtoms for…pace?
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At 2 PM local time on January 19, 2006, an Atlas V rocket lifted off ...
Read moreRadioluminescence
By Dr. Zoomie
I’ve been working in radiation safety and related fields my entire adult life (well…except for ...
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