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EmilyAnthes: Disturbing developments at the grocery store http://t.co/XrrrHxmaj6
TravisSaunders: @MrEpid @chetm12 @Taryn_PhD hmmm.... do any of the background papers on Canada's PA guidelines do that? seems like they must
hillaryrosner: Bizarre. RT @wunderground: Tornado Warning for Columbia and Dutchess Counties in NY until 6:00 PM EDT http://t.co/w5nDsnhDWQ
stevesilberman: @kathrynschulz I know!
daniel_lende: Guns on the Brain http://t.co/wB7HSICEBu Embodied cognition and how holding a gun in hand interacts with emotion & environmental perception
mfenner: RT @tomdemeranville: End goal - single search for datacite & crossref. #orcid10 Now to get more data creators to register for DOIs!
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Jason_Reads: 7 anti-gay attacks this month alone in NYC, and 29 so far this year. A timeline of these hate crimes by @theferocity: http://t.co/ujzvATx9jH
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Category Archives: The Poisoner's Handbook
The Science of Mysteries: An Overdose of Strychnine
Category: murder mystery, poison, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged Agatha Christie, Ann Finkbeiner, arsenic, Dorothy L. Sayers, Hercule Poirot, Jennifer Ouellette, Science of Mysteries, Strong Poison, strychnine, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Thomas Neil Cream, William Palmer
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The Pet Poisoner Next Door
Category: poison, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged animal abuse, animal poisoning, antifreeze, Bombshock, cat poisoning, CCAP, dog poisoning, ethlyene glycol, Humane Society, John Rennie, Myrtle Maly, Nico Dauphine, Pet-Abuse.com, strychinine, Washington Humane Society
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Periodic craziness
Category: chemistry, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged chemistry, Hugh Aldersley-Williams, lead, Marie Curie, Periodic Tales, polonium, radiation, radium, Sam Kean, thallium, The Disappearing Spoon, The Elements, The Elements (song), The Periodic Table of Elements, The Poisoner's Handbook, The Radium Girls, Theodore Gray
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At the Door of the Loony Gas Building
Category: consumer protection, lead, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged Alexander Gettler, Charles Kettering, Charles Norris, Dupont, Jr., lead poisoning, leaded gasoline, loony gas, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, Standard Oil, Tetraethyl Lead, Thomas Midgley
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An Almost Perfect Murder
Category: carbon monoxide, methane, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged Alexander Gettler, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, Charles Norris, forensic toxicology, hydrogen, Leah Friendlich, methane, murder, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, Tenement Museum, The Poisoner's Handbook
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A Dazzle in the Bones
Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged Alexander Gettler, alpha radiation, dial workers, Harrison S. Martland, New York City Medical Examiner's Office, radiation exposure, radioactivity, radium, Radium Girls, The Poisoner's Handbook, U.S. Radium Corporation
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Life in the Undark
Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged alpha radiation, beta radiation, Consumers Union of New Jersey, gamma radiation, Harrison S. Martland, Japan, Marie Curie, nuclear power, polonium, radioactivity, radon, The Poisoner's Handbook, The Radium Girls, U.S. Radium Corporation, uranium
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The Radium Girls
Category: radium, science history, Speakeasy Science, The Poisoner's Handbook
Tagged 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, Alexander Gettler, Charles Norris, Harrison S. Martland, Henri Becquerel, Marie Curie, N.J., New York City Medical Examiner's Office, nuclear, Orange, Pierre Curie, polonium, radioactivity, radium, The Radium Girls, U.S. Radium Corporation, uranium
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