Berkeley Is Nuclear Free [and Ridiculous]
The City of Berkeley's "Peace and Justice Commission" is currently at odds with the city's library over a maintenance contract with 3M.Evidently (and likely for good reason), 3M has not signed Berkeley's nuclear-free disclosure form. To the crazies on the commission, that means the library's self-checkout machines should remain unserviced (and thus a huge waste of taxpayer dollars and time).
Suddenly, those stupid signs all around this town aren't quite as funny.
Labels: Only In Berkeley, Rabid Liberals
posted by tj at 12:17 PM
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It's particularly absurd in light of the dirt on campus, which practically glows in the dark.
Ah the irony. See element 97, berkelium (Bk); element 98, californium (Cf); element 103, lawrencium (Lr); and element 106, seaborgium (Sg).
Ernest Lawrence was so cool that there is two, TWO!, national labs named after him: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab and Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab. Not only that, but he was Berkeley's first Nobel Laureate for his work on the cyclotron.
Glenn Seaborgium was the principal of co-discoverer of 10 transuranic elements: plutonium (Pu 94), americium (Am 95), curium (Cm 96), berkelium (Bk 97), californium (Cf 98), einsteinium (Es 99), fermium (Fm 100), mendelevium (Md 101), nobelium (No 102), and, his namesake, seaborgium (Sg 106). He was also Berkeley's 2nd Chancellor.
OK. I'll stop being such a nerd for the time being.
Correct on all accounts, 2:13.
Seaborgium was the first element named after a living person. This is traditionally frowned upon, and threw tons of chemists and physicists into a bit of a tizzy.
More irony: two universities collaborated on the Los Alamos project - Berkeley and Chicago. Berkeley's cyclatron was instrumental in the creation of the atomic bomb.
Doesn't that make it more appropriate for the hippies to be freaked out about their horrible legacy of nuclear destruction?
I think that we should run around one night and make all these signs glow in the dark. That would be soooo much fun.
Does anyone know what the signs all around Berkeley with the letters "HM" with a red line through them mean? These signs have been driving me totally crazy since I moved up here.
Prohibition of hazardous materials.
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