ASFO 2026–02–21

"Man and Atom" display at FenCon XXI, Dallas, Texas, February 2026

Margaret “Tina” Thatcher, FenCon XXI and their Science Guest of Honor, the difficulties of fitting display materials into a very small borrowed car, and my continuing printer woes take up most of the time this week.

Supplementary Show

2026–02–27 (second part) Audio from four new film transfers : Atomic Power Comes of Age, a trailer for an article in the 1965 December Reader’s Digest ; Inside the Atom, an Encyclopædia Brittannica film ; Everyday Radioactivity, an introduction to gamma ray spectroscopy ; and How Much is Enough?, an introduction to the concept of statistical uncertainty in measurements, using radioactive counting rates.

Author: publius

Fools! I will destroy you all!!