Commonplace Blog

commonplace book. n. Formerly Book of common places (see commonplace n. 3). orig. A book in which ‘commonplaces’ or passages important for reference were collected, usually under general heads; hence, a book in which one records passages or matters to be especially remembered or referred to, with or without arrangement. OED Online. Oxford University Press, March 2015. Web. 5 April 2015.

commonplace blog. n A commonplace book in a blog.

Friday, June 17, 2022

Nuclear Power’s Big Downside

Splitting atoms to boil water was never a good idea. Nuclear energy produces nuclear waste, and 80 years into the nuclear age, we still have no idea what to do with these lethal byproducts.

Thomas Bass, The Bomb Next Door, American Scholar, Summer 2022, at 33, 34.

Mary Whisner at 2:46 PM

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