Why doesn't the government ban foods containing radioactive carbon-14?
Fact: Carbon-14 (a.k.a. "radiocarbon") accumulates in the human body and releases damaging radiation.
Fact: Carbon-14 causes millions of cancers
Fact: Carbon-14 has a half-life of over 5700 years!!
Fact: Carbon-14 is more radio-active than Uranium
Why is nobody doing anything about it?
In fact their are signs of a government conspiracy about this. Why does the US Department of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms require a MINIMUM level of radiocarbon in alcoholic drinks?
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but something did. Perhaps it was the sheer scope of the concept, the depth of the imagination, and the grandeur of the images that expanded my mind so.
taught me to care
but it was worth it to understand quality.
shaped my middle-age politics.
. It also made me laugh a lot.
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, which I re-read occasionally with renewed pleasure.