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With brotherhood from sea to shining sea dark skies and ruined water, burning rivers, oil spills, closed beaches. Silent spring. 20 years ago, the wealthiest nation the world had ever known, a people who enjoyed a level of private consumption undreamed of in the past, found itself awash in environmental squaller. Our cars were comfortable, but our children couldnt play outside because of the smog. Our clothes were clean, but our bays were choked with sewage and our lakes were slowly dying. A wave of horror swept the nation as we began to realize what we had done to the Natural Systems that sup...

Credit: M. Mille From the earliest days of radioactivity research, radiation and cancer therapy have gone together like peas and carrots. But Zach Levine covered peas and carrots in an earlier blog post, so I will focus on radiation and cancer therapy. Shortly after Wilhelm Röntgen discovered the high-energy electromagnetic radiation he called “X-rays” in 1895, their cell-killing power was recognized and harnessed to treat cancer. Similarly, within a few years of the Curies’ discovery of the radioactive element radium, doctors were deploying the energetic particles it emitt...