Overnight holidays at a nuclear plant

Overnight holidays at a nuclear plant by David Pescovitz

The Philippines’ National Power Corporation is offering tours and overnight beachside holidays at its Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, built in the 1980s but never fired up. It’s been “uranium-free” since 1997 and is now marketed as an ecotourism site. From National Geographic:

The trip back in [...]

Coming soon glow-in-the-dark “Radiation” badge

Coming soon glow-in-the-dark “Radiation” badge by adafruit

Coming soon glow-in-the-dark “Radiation” badge. You learned about radiation and radioactivity! Adafruit offers a fun and exciting “badges” of achievement for electronics, science and engineering. We believe everyone should be able to be rewarded for learning a useful skill, a badge is just one of the many ways to [...]

Master Control Project

Master Control Project

Last weekend I finally mostly-finished the project I’ve been working on, on and off, for the last several months. My Master Control Project, or MCP*, was designed to be a central controller and information display that would sit on my desk in my livingroom, and give me all sorts [...]