Your parents probably warned you against sitting too close to the TV set. I know mine did, and we only watched a couple of hours a day. The adult in you probably knows this is a myth, and research backs that up. But that...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/01/17/Is-Sitting-Too-Close-to-the-TV-Really-Bad-for-You/Can color kill? Not by itself, but humans love color so much that we are drawn to things that may be really dangerous, just because we like the pretty colors.[https://youtu.be/gKfjHTk8KrY] (YouTube link)The problem was t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/23/Historys-Deadliest-Colors/Marie and Pierre Curie first isolated radium on Ap... ...dark. Everyone started to notice the danger after radiation sickness became common among radium workers. Spas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/06/02/Glow-with-the-Flow/Olivier Bernard is a pharmacist in Quebec with a popular blog, Le Pharmachien. That’s where he posts comics that take complicated medical subjects and breaks them down into everyday language. Usually, that everyday...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/30/Cancer-Chemo-Radiation-and-Dandelions/[http://youtu.be/TRL7o2kPqw0] (YouTube link)We hea... ...sement of Pripyat’s hospital. The amount of radiation is presented in bananas as a visualization device...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/12/20/The-Most-Radioactive-Places-on-Earth/[http://youtu.be/OvJ-fFajiY4]YouTube LinkHave you ever had anyone warn you not to stand near the microwave as it is cooking? Watch as Mental Floss takes on the often heard warning, particularly in media presentations. Is...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/10/13/Is-it-Unhealthy-to-Stand-in-Front-of-a-Microwave/Some glassware collectors take a handheld black li... ...ent day. That’s because the tiny amounts of radiation emitting from Vaseline glass are smaller than radiation emitted from many other things we encounter in ou... ...anium will glow under UV light even after all the radiat...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/07/30/These-People-Love-to-Collect-Radioactive-Glass-Are-They-Nuts/Almost three decades after the nuclear meltdown at... ...es in structure and physiology and high levels of radiation . And another effect of the disaster may spell tro... ...he level of decay corresponded with the amount of radiation in the area in which they were placed (shown on m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/15/Chernobyl-Trees-Dont-Rot-Right/The following is an article from Uncle John's Full... ...but in the 1920s, when much less was known about radiation , it seemed to make sense. People had long wondere... ...oak in a hot spring exposed the soaker to as much radiation as an hour in the sun), the radon appeared to be... ...ion.It wasn't just qua...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/18/The-Strange-Fate-of-Eben-Byers/The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan were... ...later, Chernobyl is still an exclusion zone, with radiation levels registering as dangerous. What makes the d...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/24/The-Difference-Between-Hiroshima-and-Chernobyl/
