At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the Manhattan Project and the Space Race - Silicon Valley's AI talent war just reached a compensation m... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/at-250-million-top-ai-salaries-dwarf-those-of-the-manhattan-project-and-the-space-race/ #artificialgeneralintelligence #fairchildsemiconductor #superintelligence #talentacquisition #aiinfrastructure #manhattanproject #machinelearning #markzuckerberg #aidevelopment #siliconvalley #compensation #biz&it

A creek with atomic waste from WWII is linked to increased cancer risk

by Ronnie Cohen, July 21, 2025

"Children who lived near a St. Louis creek polluted with radioactive atomic bomb waste from the 1940s through the 1960s were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer over their lifetimes than children who lived farther from the waterway, a new study has found.

"The findings, published in JAMA Network Open, corroborate worries that neighbors of Coldwater Creek have long held about the #MissouriRiver tributary where generations of children played.

" 'We actually saw something quite dramatic, not only elevated risk of cancer, but one that increased steadily in a sort of dose-response manner the closer the childhood residents got to Coldwater Creek,' said the study's senior author, Marc Weisskopf, an epidemiology professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

"As part of the #ManhattanProject, #Mallinckrodt Chemical Works processed #uranium in #SaintLouisMO for the development of an #AtomicBomb. By the mid-1940s, according to historians, the company began to haul its #RadioactiveWaste north of the city, leaving it in open steel drums, unattended and exposed to the elements, next to #ColdwaterCreek."

[...]

"Almost one-quarter of the participants [in a study] reported having cancer. Those who lived within one kilometer of the creek as children were 44% more likely to report having cancer than those who lived more than 20 kilometers away. Even more striking, those who lived within one kilometer of the creek were 85% more likely to have radiosensitive cancers, cancers believed to be caused by radiation."

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/21/nx-s1-5474883/nuclear-waste-manhattan-project-missouri-reca-jama?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

80 years since Trinity test, new oral history reveals the human drama: Scientists were told "lie face down, don't look!" Edward Teller's response? "Hold my calculator" *stares directly at nuclear explosion through welding goggles*

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/19/187249/what-eyewitnesses-remembered-about-the-worlds-first-atomic-bomb-explosion-in-1945

#Germany was the world leader in many fields of #science.
Until the #Nazis came and threw out the best scientists because of the heritage.
The #US took in some of these refugees, many of them participated in the #ManhattanProject, and became the world leader in science and technology.
The Soviets may have put a satellite up first and Gagarin, but Gagarin had to jump out of his capsule because the parachute on it didn't work.
But #America landed humans on the #Moon and returned them safely to the #Earth.
Now, #fascist and #demented #Trump has, in less than a year, made it nearly impossible for any international #scientific #conference to be held anywhere in the United States ever again based on its deportment policies, arbitrary demands for #bribes, and #abductions by #brownshirts on the street.
Hanson, Kara. “We Moved a Conference Halfway Around the Globe to Avoid Visa Discrimination.” Nature, vol. 639, no. 8053, Mar. 2025, p. 9. https://doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00614-1.

Nel giorno degli 80 anni dalla prima detonazione di un'arma nucleare della storia, ricordiamo, grazie a Gabriella Greison, #LeonaWoods - 'La donna della bomba atomica' - Invidious https://iv.duti.dev/watch?v=EC8I1Oe0Sb8 #ManhattanProject

The Little-Known History Of #BohemianGrove, The Summer Camp For The ‘Masters Of The Universe’

By Katie Serena | Edited By Jaclyn Anglis
Published November 28, 2021
Updated February 6, 2022

A private campground in Monte Rio, California, Bohemian Grove hosts an all-male social club of rich and powerful members who want to "misbehave."

The High-Ranking Bohemian Grove Members

"Today, the Bohemian Grove serves as a getaway for members to reconnect with each other and to let loose. The club’s motto is “weaving spiders, come not here,” a line from William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. It means that members aren’t supposed to work while at Bohemian Grove.

"However, there have been notable exceptions, including planning for the #ManhattanProject in 1942, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb. But considering how many well-known policymakers have been members of the Bohemian Grove club, this isn’t entirely surprising.

"Past members and guests have included #RonaldReagan, #RichardNixon, Karl Rove, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter Cronkite, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Barry Goldwater, Colin Powell, and Nelson #Rockefeller."

Read more:
https://allthatsinteresting.com/bohemian-grove

#Caesium-137, a product of #uranium-235 fission, is one of the world's most widely used #radionuclides and is the inspiration for my nick.

Did you know that Margaret Melhase Fuchs, a #chemistry undergraduate at UC #Berkeley, discovered Cs-137 in 1941, but was prevented from pursuing a PhD?

More information about this interesting woman who has been repressed from history:
https://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/40/4/18N

https://www.chemistryworld.com/culture/margaret-melhase-fuchs-and-the-radioactive-isotope/4015340.article