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  • 5 days ago | thebrowser.com | Kaamya Sharma

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  • 1 week ago | thebrowser.com | Kaamya Sharma

    Alex Chalmers | Works In Progress | 27th May 2025Nuclear regulation worldwide is based on the Linear No Threshold, the hypothesis that any amount of radiation increases cancer risk. It was popularised by Nobel laureate Herman Muller, based on his finding that fruit fly sperm cells treated with X-rays had a 15,000% higher mutation rate.

  • 1 week ago | thebrowser.com | Kaamya Sharma

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  • 1 week ago | thebrowser.com | Kaamya Sharma

    The Honest Sorcerer | 25th May 2025Electric grids exemplify two vulnerabilities in all manmade complex systems: tight coupling and the limits of human comprehension. Cascading collapses happen within seconds of things going slightly wrong, as with the blackout in the Iberian peninsula. “We are lurching towards a post-electric world, where national grids will gradually become unaffordable, and be broken down into smaller local grids” (3,500 words)Nomido is the Browser's daily word game.

  • 1 week ago | thebrowser.com | Kaamya Sharma

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