Smoking Radiation?

[Tobacco Smoke as Another Source of Radiation]

Actual cause of the lung cancer ,associated with cigarette smoking, is Radioactivity ??



  Per [Tobacco Smoke | Radiation Protection | US EPA]:

Radioactivity may be one of the key factors in lung cancer among smokers....†.

The tobacco leaves used in making cigarettes contain radioactive material, particularly lead-210 and polonium-210. ...
The radionuclide content of tobacco leaves depends [on fertilizer use]...


"... phosphate fertilizers, favored by the tobacco industry,
contain radium and its decay products (including lead-210 and polonium-210).
When phosphate fertilizer is spread on tobacco fields year after year,
the concentration of lead-210 and polonium-210 in the soil rises... ..."

(more at http://www.epa.gov/radiation/sources/tobacco.html )


...So what about other plants (foods)?

† See http://www.epa.gov/radiation/sources/tobacco.html#footnote



See also:

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/understand/perspective.html

and

http://www.epa.gov/radiation/topics.html.

Primorsky, Vladivostok, Irkusk, China, and Japan

Did you realize that Russia interjects itself squarely between China and Japan?


Google maps will tell you that Vladivostok [ Владивостока ] is located in\at the "Region of Primorsky, Russia" *
But that won't be evident looking at their map...

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It seems that this was tranditionally known (to us in the west) as "Primorsky Kray" [pree.mohrrsk'CRY]:
aka. the Primorsky Maritime Territory' .... ... Incidentally, in browsing the map today, I realized I always thought that Russia dipped down towards Japan by way of Kamchatka; but I guess I wasn't remembering my 'Risk' map correctly ;-) (See Kamchatskaya oblast... )

~footnotes~

*2 ] alt.: ' Primorskiy kray ' ; ' Primorskiĭ kraĭ ' ; c.f. Rusko, ' Primorský kraj ' , Приморский край ;

Primorskiĭ kraĭ

* img: http://www.ieeta.pt/~skl/travel_not_protected/FormerUSSR/WhereIsOnMap/Vladivostok.jpg; src: http://www.ieeta.pt/~skl/travel_not_protected/formerussr.html

'Super Full Moon' !

[subject: Lunar , March 16 -- March 19, 2011]

Did you notice the Full Moon this month? Did it look especially big and bright to you ?
Here's why : (at least scientifically, not poetically..)

Super Full Moon - NASA Science [from science.NASA.gov >Science News ; 2011, March 16)]
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Razor Blade Sharpening the Quick and Easy Way

Today's Tip of the Day comes from a 1958 issue of popular mechanics:

>> Read the tip, and the rest of the issue, at google books <<
[ http://books.google.com/books?id=Qt8DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA206&pg=PA194#v=onepage&q&f=false ]

Links:

 Magazine Info Page (including T.of Contents) for Pop Mechanics, September, 1958: http://books.google.com/books?id=Qt8DAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s \

google sidewiki and google 'ardvark' help

Google Sidewiki:
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Export (download) / Import Your Blog < [note]

( file under:  quicknotes ;  tech notes ;  blogger  how-to  )

How-To: Export (download\save) Your Blog (example: blogger's version):

» [Blogger Help] > ["How do I import and export blogs on Blogger?"] » http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97416