Tickets are officially purchased for upcoming the May and June parts of the 2011 Scientific Drinking Tour plus a new addition in September! This is your opportunity to get direct hand off of either Steins of Science or BBotE while we’re on the road. They more detailed itinerary looks like this: May 12th-17th: Fairbanks, AK We …
Category Archives: Adventure & Radiation
Playing Cops & Robots and Touching Faults, Pt. 1
There’s nothing quite like the end of the month, which is always paperwork crunch time, for new and interesting opportunities to crop up. Despite knowing the certain long hours they will demand in make up time, you just can’t…say…no. Two of those happened this week, I got to enter into UC Berkeley’s Lawson Adit (definition: …
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Corporate Culture vs. The Frozen Frontier
Right out the gate, I must highly recommend the work of Mr. Nicholas Johnson writer of Big Dead Place and curator of the website of the same name. I started giggling at his tales while I was still in Antarctica and it now helps me maintain a connection to a continent I never expect to …
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Cryogenic Cocktails – An Antarctic Tale
In addition to being South Pole Station’s bartender, my actual job (the reason I was sent to the bottom of the Earth) was as the science/cryogenics technician. It was my job to take care of all the liquid helium and liquid nitrogen and make sure all the cryogenic equipment on the telescopes stayed in good …
Post-Tsunami Japanese Reactor Problems
While I like to keep my discussions here coffee, beer, and historical science related some things just can’t be ignored especially when people keep poking me for answers. So, I have some thoughts that are quite lacking in insobriety. First, I am not a nuclear engineer, contrary to how more than a few people have …
Goiania
Herr Direktor Funranium shares a brief history of the Goiania Radiological Accident and some thoughts about hazard communication.
The Resurrected “Origins of Funranium”
The long absent “Origins of Funranium” post from the Iteration I website returns.
Antarctic Lifestyle Challenge
Herr Direktor Funranium issues a challenge for you to assess what is important in your life.
Drinking To Columbia – An Antarctic Tale
Herr Direktor Funranium shares another Antarctic moment and salutes the astronauts who made for a very special, though sad, memory.
Las Vegas (Part 2): The Atomic Testing Museum, NERVA, and SL-1
Herr Direktor Funranium cannot encourage you enough to go to the Atomic Testing Museum
Las Vegas (Part 1): CES 2011 & Good People
The non-Atomic Testing Museum half of Herr Direktor Funranium’s Vegas adventures.
Blowing People’s Minds With Geology
Sometimes all that time playing on and researching about volcanoes pays off.
The Black Lodge, Antarctica
Rather than talk about Las Vegas adventures, Herr Direktor Funranium shares with you a slice of life from Amundsen-South Pole Station, circa-December 2002.
A Field Trip To NASA Ames/Moffett Field
Herr Direktor Funranium has a grand day out exploring in the land of Big Science. Many pictures in here, so brace for slow loading.
Herr Dirketor Funranium, Down Under (100% Paul Hogan Free Content)
The quote of the trip so far: “I think that in the depth of winter, Australians have forgotten what summer is like and what it does to beer. This thing is brilliant. How many thousand have you sold to Queensland?”
Answer: None…yet.