Comments on: Morning Cup of Links: Chocolate Super Hero Costumes http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20284 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:46:21 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Kiki http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20284/comment-page-1#comment-108147 Kiki Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:41:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20284#comment-108147 I have always and will always hate LOLcats, whether they are happy or sad. Puppet was grand though! I have always and will always hate LOLcats, whether they are happy or sad.

Puppet was grand though!

]]> By: BassMan http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20284/comment-page-1#comment-108109 BassMan Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20284#comment-108109 Puppet: Wonderfully twisted! Puppet: Wonderfully twisted!

]]> By: airship http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20284/comment-page-1#comment-108058 airship Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:36:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/20284#comment-108058 We learned in the late 60's that open-air A-Bomb tests in Nevada had showered the Midwest with tons of the radioactive isotope strontium 90. Cows that fed on grass contaminated with strontium 90 passed in on in their milk. I was in grade school at the time, and we had a program that gave us free milk every afternoon. Here's a map of the strontium 90 distribution. I'm in Iowa; other states were hit even harder. facstaff.gpc.edu/~jaliff/envschem_files/usimap.gif We learned in the late 60’s that open-air A-Bomb tests in Nevada had showered the Midwest with tons of the radioactive isotope strontium 90. Cows that fed on grass contaminated with strontium 90 passed in on in their milk. I was in grade school at the time, and we had a program that gave us free milk every afternoon.

Here’s a map of the strontium 90 distribution. I’m in Iowa; other states were hit even harder.

facstaff.gpc.edu/~jaliff/envschem_files/usimap.gif

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