Monday, April 11, 2005

LewRockwell.com Blog: The Death Of a Physicist: "I just read an obituary of William Bade, a physicist who had - among his other accomplishments - worked with the Nobel laureate Hans Bethe to develop the Bethe-Bade theory of the x-ray effects generated by nuclear explosions in space. The obituary noted that, as a youngster, Bade had a chemistry lab in his basement where he created explosives."

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"Today's politically-dominated culture fears such power - limited as it was - in the hands of boys. While occasional school shootings are carried out by teenagers on Prozac or other anti-depressants, the institutional order prefers to find causation in guns. Many teenagers of my era owned guns without school shootings taking place. Of course, they were not on anti-depressants."

(Via LewRockwell.com Blog.)