High School Student Builds a Cheap 75,000 Volt Portable X-Ray Machine

Source: Wonder How To

What were you doing with your spare time in high school? Playing sports? Video gaming? Surfing the Web? Building portable x-ray machines? Okay, that last one might not be every teen's hobby, but one 18-year-old spent the last few years of high school ...
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A Guided Tour of Catastrophe

Source: Wall Street Journal

By Michael C. Moynihan The pop environmentalist polemic follows a rigid formula. From its best-selling beginnings, with angry screeds like Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" (1962) and Paul Ehrlich's "The P ...
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Chernobyl Diaries review: Horror thriller offers a few worthy scares

Source: Toronto.com

The big shocker in Chernobyl Diaries, the horror thriller from Paranormal Activity franchise creator Oren Peli, is that it’s better than expected. Just like horror flick tropes where the busty die first and the worst thing y ...
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Peli lets horrors out of house for 'Chernobyl'

Source: Louisville Courier-Journal

"I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for," says 'Chernobyl Diaries' producer Oren Peli. (Credit: By Dale Robinette) After sc ...
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10 Horror Movie Locations You Can Actually Visit

Source: Original Signal: Movies

In this week’s Chernobyl Diaries, six young tourists take an 'extreme tour' of Pripyat, an abandoned city near the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and soon discover that ‘getting off the beaten path’ is far more dangerous than they had ...
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Geiger Counter Powered Ambient Music Player

Source: MAKE: Blog

The PULSE output of each Geiger counter is connected to one input of a 74LS04 hex inverter on the Protoshield. Each time a Geiger counter detects a radioactive decay, it sends a 0.1ms 3V high pulse to one input of the inverter. The ...
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Is pro-nuclear the best option for our make-or-break century?

Source: Brave New Climate

We’ll come complete with some entertaining show pieces, including a geiger counter and various ‘radioactive’ samples – it should make for a highly entertaining and informative afternoon! Mayor Heather Wright (Town of Walkerville) invites you to take ...
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'Paranormal' Creator Amps Up Fear Of Unknown With 'Chernobyl Diaries'

Source: WLWT Cincinnati

The odd part about Oren Peli's success is that with each new film, the "Paranormal Activity" creator said he's actually feels less pressure to deliver. That's a pretty amazing sense of calm to have given the filmmaker's budgets ...
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High Schooler Builds Portable X-Ray Machine

Source: The Escapist

Student puts other high school science projects to shame. With a bit of research and tenacity, a high school student by the name of Adam Munich has completed probably one of the most interesting science projects to date: a fully-operational, port ...
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