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Posted on entry If this were Brad de Long's blog, this header would read "Andrew Northrup is banging his head against the wall." ::: September 09, 2003, 05:07 AM:
"Abiola, maybe we read a different WHO report?"

If you did, where is it? I showed you mine, so you might as well show me yours. I suspect that you didn't read any such report, and simply want to pass off your own groundless paranoia about depleted uranium as some sort of scientifically-founded opinion.
Posted on entry If this were Brad de Long's blog, this header would read "Andrew Northrup is banging his head against the wall." ::: September 08, 2003, 11:15 PM:
Did you even bother to read the report before uttering this bit of propaganda? Need I point out that if you are in the vicinity of a tank that is firing a DU shell, you might have more pressing matters to worry about than dust from DU? Or that, being a heavy metal, aerosolized DU would hardly stay in circulation for very long?
Posted on entry If this were Brad de Long's blog, this header would read "Andrew Northrup is banging his head against the wall." ::: September 08, 2003, 11:02 PM:
Well, what is "the truth about depleted uranium"? I know a thing or two about the physics of radioactive decay, and one thing I do know is that depleted uranium is hardly worth bothering about as a source of radiation. Any risks posed by DU are more likely to stem from the fact that it is a heavy metal, rather than the ominous notions that the word "uranium" seems to inspire in many souls on the web.

The findings of the very World Health Organization cited above as an authorititative source of information would seem to corroborate my opinion as to the (non) significance of DU as an environmental threat. Chalk at least one up for blogosphere opinion in this case.
Posted on entry Lists apart. ::: August 21, 2003, 11:12 AM:
"Vo Nguyen Giap?"

Von Manstein was by no means a nice guy (he was an enthusiastic supporter of the "Kommissar Befehl" - a policy of shooting Soviet commissars on sight without trial), but from a purely military point of view, Giap is in no way comparable to him, or even to Heinz Guderian.

And now for something completely different! My nominees for the greatest mathematicians of this century are (in no particular order):
  1. David Hilbert
  2. Kurt Gf6del
  3. Andre Weil (brother of Simone)
  4. Robert Langlands
  5. Jean-Pierre Serre
  6. Andrei Kolmogorov
  7. John von Neumann
  8. Paul Erdf6s
  9. Alexandre Grothendieck
  10. Igor Shafarevich

    I'm sure there are equally worthy nominees, but the list above reflects the biases imposed by my own background.

Posted on entry Lists apart. ::: August 21, 2003, 10:53 AM:
How is it that this thread has gone so far without anyone even once mentioning Marcel Proust? Hasn't anyone here read him?

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