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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
(I can't believe my last post on this thread was a month ago today.)
I'm now into the article in the March 4 issue about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
I have just read about how upset and fearful some people were about the use of dihydrogen monoxide in the efforts to disperse the oil.
Dihydrogen monoxide is water. ...
Front-Ranger:
That's funny, Jeff. You mean they used water to disperse the oil in the Gulf? Trying to visualize how that would work.
I went all the way back to January 24 to read "Books as Bombs" about the impact of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique on mid-century American women. I often am inspired to go back to an earlier issue after I read a letter commenting about an article in a later issue. Thus, the piles of NYMs squirreled away in my dressing room.
But I was also very moved by the cover of this latest issue. At first it seems to be cherry blossoms, but when you look more closely, the blossoms are actually radioactive symbols. I was shocked to read that crisis plans for US nuclear industry cover not the disasters most likely to happen, but those that are "reasonable" to defend against. How short-sighted!
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 24, 2011, 12:52:17 pm ---That's funny, Jeff. You mean they used water to disperse the oil in the Gulf? Trying to visualize how that would work.
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Dihydrogen monoxide was one of the components of the dispersant that was used.
One thing that I've learned from this article is that there are actually microorganisms in the ocean water that really do "eat" oil.
--- Quote ---I went all the way back to January 24 to read "Books as Bombs" about the impact of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique on mid-century American women. I often am inspired to go back to an earlier issue after I read a letter commenting about an article in a later issue. Thus, the piles of NYMs squirreled away in my dressing room.
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I enjoyed that article about Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique, too.
Even if I fall weeks behind, I take every issue in order, and when I've finally finished one, I pass it on to a friend at work.
Front-Ranger:
I have a different method. When a new issue arrives, I stop reading any old issues and start to devour the new one. Thus, I have quite a few half-read issues by my bed at any one time, but at least I am up to date on the latest news.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 24, 2011, 02:25:12 pm ---I have a different method. When a new issue arrives, I stop reading any old issues and start to devour the new one. Thus, I have quite a few half-read issues by my bed at any one time, but at least I am up to date on the latest news.
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I usually read the theater/TV/movie/book reviews as soon as an issue arrives, because those articles are generally comparatively short and can be read while I eat dinner. But then I go back and read the longer articles in each issue in the order in which the issues arrived.
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