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People who keep every birthday card, ticket stub, and handwritten note aren't sentimental hoarders — they're often trying to prove to themselves that the years actually happened and weren't just something they survived on autopilot
A single gram of tritium costs roughly 30,000 US dollars and glows faintly blue in the dark, and fusion reactors like ITER will need to breed their own supply from lithium blankets because the entire global stockpile sits at about 25 kilograms
In 1974, Indian scientists detonated a plutonium device in the Rajasthan desert under the code name Smiling Buddha, using material bred in a Canadian-supplied research reactor called CIRUS that had been sold on the written condition it be used only for peaceful purposes
How did a volcanic island near the Arctic Circle, stripped of most of its birch woodland over a thousand years, begin growing forest again across badly eroded ground?
