Talking to people I know in the NHS, Covid is currently playing merry hell with staffing levels. It may not be killing very many people, or even putting them into intensive care, but it is rampant in… (View Post)

Have you read them? We are talking about a series where a character was bricked up alive for the sin of refusing to work here after all. The Rev Awdry liked his fictional societies constructed so tha… (View Post)

The British aristocracy probably promised that they would block the legislation in the Lords unless these changes were made. See “The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Tran… (View Post)

Further investigation - I’m not sure I entirely believe the sources that suggest that the red forest still has places with backgrounds of 10mSv/hr. But the dust inhalation would seem to be a real iss… (View Post)

Those numbers are likely wrong, at least they don’t match sources I’ve found elsewhere, which suggest that the background radiation dose in the parts of Chernobyl immediately adjacent to the reactor … (View Post)