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Nnadir is a mildly amusing cranky guy living in New Jersey with his wife and two sons. He seems to have a strange fascination with elements that have f orbitals. He harbors the puerile opinion that the future matters.
Diaries published: 399 (1499 days since last diary on Sun Dec 16, 2012 at 08:39 AM PST)
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Most Recommended Diary: My Eight Year Old and I Had a Chat Tonight., 216 comments, 195 recommends
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The paper from the primary scientific literature that I will discuss in this diary is from the journal Tree Physiology and has the (long winded) title "Mistletoe effects on Scots pine decline ...
by NNadir
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on Sun Dec 16, 2012 at 08:39 AM PST
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So called "renewable energy," as represented by the combustion of biomass, is a major health problem on this planet, responsible for a considerable fraction of the 3.3 million deaths associated with ...
by NNadir
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on Sun Oct 21, 2012 at 01:29 PM PDT
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Some people are complaining about the scant attention being paid to climate change in the current election. I'm not among them, and it's not because I am unconcerned with the outcome of the ...
by NNadir
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on Sat Oct 13, 2012 at 09:33 AM PDT
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This will be a very brief note.
In the comments section of my last diary on this website, The Transplutonium Element Curium Found On Mars , I remarked, in response to a question that the Curiosity ...
by NNadir
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on Sat Aug 25, 2012 at 05:51 PM PDT
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It is, you know. (Someone put it there.) Curium, named for the great nuclear chemist Marie Curie, was discovered by Glenn Seaborg.
Tomorrow Darleane Hoffman, the great nuclear chemist - now in ...
by NNadir
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on Sat Aug 18, 2012 at 09:15 AM PDT
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The practice described in the title of this diary will, I predict, never happen, although, as I will describe below relying on a paper published in the scientific journal Industrial and Chemical ...
by NNadir
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on Sat Jul 14, 2012 at 02:17 PM PDT
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- Japanese Nuclear Reactor Earthquake Story Changes. Everyone in
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- The Nuclear Shill Apologizes.
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