So, an article on Playfuls.com claims that banning smoking in a pub reduces the carcinogen level in the air in that pub. WOW! Really?
Some interesting data though. Read on.
Smoking Ban Dramatically Reduces Air Pollution In Irish Pubs
Daily Archive for April 18th, 2007
Wow. There are bigger things than not having heat for a day… The people described in this article by Highland News are truly suffering.
I think to myself sometimes what my life would have been had I not gotten a computer what I was… how old was I? something like 8. Anyway, I wonder what it could have been like… I am sitting here, taking a break from writing a manuscript [there! I'm trying to not call them "papers" anymore; it's "manuscripts"] and reading news. What’s in the news? Nose-bleeds, ulcerating wounds, half-dead children.
This “slum”, though, doesn’t look half-bad, compared to the average apartment in Moscow around where I grew up. We lived in an all-brick highrise which was something amazing, you know. I would tell people we live in a brick building and they would ask in amazement if it’s really brick and not concrete panels like 99% of the other houses there.
Looking around my apartment now in center city Philadelphia I think it’s pretty good, no matter for the occasional no-heat spells, thanks to the age of the building. Like my hairstylist sais: “your building’s got ALOT of character” 
Anyway, here’s the article:
Mums slam ’sick’ slum flats
By Claire Doughty
Published: 14 April, 2007
A though-provoking article, nothing less!
I recall reading about cholera outbreaks through infestation of drinking water. But that was so long ago! Surely by now we have much better treatment systems, do we not? Alas, bacteria and viruses are stronger, too.
I know I will repeat it for the millionth time, but as we get rid of weaker bacteria we make room for the stronger species. In some cases, far stronger ones. I am actually curios to see the outcome of all this.
Well, whatever the case, take a look at this article on wastewater treatment published on RedOrbit.
Posted on: Sunday, 15 April 2007, 03:00 CDT
Investing in the Science of Disinfection
By Rose, Joan B; Haas, Charles N
Exduco publishes an interesting article on the new research in fusion. Confining plasma in magnetic field is nothing new but explanations of the phenomena are lacking.
I like this idea of usig space plasmas (auroras and such) to try to explain tokamaks.
Anyway, here’s the article from Exduco.
Twisted Flux Tubes Expel “Wrong-Way” Ions - 2007-04-16
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