- With wartime Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents showing greater longevity and lower cancer rates, a study argues for radiation hormesis - the notion that low radiation doses are beneficial; this could mean drastically lower radiation shielding requirements in spaceflight https://genesenvironment.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41021-018-0114-3 9 comments space
- Low-dose radiation from A-bombs elongated lifespan and reduced cancer mortality relative to un-irradiated individuals https://genesenvironment.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41021-018-0114-3 31 comments science
Linking pages
- My Left Kidney - by Scott Alexander - Astral Codex Ten https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-left-kidney 318 comments
- 52 things I learned in 2022. This year I worked on fascinating… | by Tom Whitwell | Magnetic Notes | Dec, 2022 | Medium https://medium.com/magnetic/52-things-i-learned-in-2022-db5fcd4aea6e 0 comments
Linked pages
- https://xkcd.com/radiation/ 1084 comments
- Creative Commons — CC0 1.0 Universal http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 305 comments
- Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International — CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 95 comments
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsutomu_Yamaguchi 38 comments