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The frightening, fascinating, inspiring story of radiation

Timothy J. Jorgensen’s Strange Glow contains some really quite interesting facts about this strange transmission of energy that can both kill and cure

5 March 2016

9:00 AM

5 March 2016

9:00 AM

Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation Timothy J. Jorgensen

Princeton University Press, pp.456, £24.95, ISBN: 9780691165035

About a century ago, scientists started meddling with an unfamiliar force of nature and the rest of us were terrified. That force was called electricity and nowadays we’re all fine with it. What Timothy Jorgensen wants to know is: why don’t we feel equally relaxed about radiation? After all, electricity is just as dangerous, but only if you’re very unlucky or very stupid.

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