sciencemadness

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by sciencemadness 8mo ago
My site is Sciencemadness. The forum is the most active part of the site: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/ Check out the library too (this started before Google Books, Internet Archive, and Hathitrust were offer
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by sciencemadness 4y ago
You can find it here, minus the posts from the private forums: https://the-hive.archive.erowid.org/ also see https://archive.erowid.org/
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by sciencemadness 4y ago
The bad actors were much less prevalent back in the heyday of small phpBB style forums. I have run a forum of this type for 20 years now, since 2002. Around 2011 was when link spam got bad enough that I had to start writing my own bolt-on s
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by sciencemadness 4y ago
Not in the United States. I run a web site that publishes information about the making of explosives, chemical weapons, and even restricted nuclear materials. It's all perfectly legal. Most of the information comes from government publ
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by sciencemadness 4y ago
The OCR text beneath the page image is there to make it easier to search. I used ABBYY FineReader for the OCR process. I didn't do any manual reviewing or correcting of the automatically generated OCR text. I ran additional scripted to
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by sciencemadness 4y ago
Wow, time flies. I scanned this book more than 12 years ago. Here's my original announcement on the Sciencemadness forum: https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/viewthread.php?tid=24... I'm glad that it was s
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by sciencemadness 4y ago
I didn't realize that one was rare and expensive! I have it sitting on my shelf next to the 1965 Model Rocketry manual from Estes Industries. But it looks like archive.org already has a scan, so I don't need to scan it myself: ht
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by sciencemadness 4y ago
This was a favorite book of mine as a child. It was one of the last books that I scanned and uploaded to sciencemadness.org. That's probably for the best, since I was still learning how to make good scans and PDFs with the early books.
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by sciencemadness 4y ago
My site is sciencemadness.org. I started it when I was still an undergraduate some 20 years ago now (!). It's mostly about chemistry and nuclear technology. My personal interests include chemistry, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, mater
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by sciencemadness 6y ago
When I was a kid in the 1980s it didn't seem harder than my other hobby, programming a Commodore 64. The relative difficulty is probably higher now, and of course your friends/neighbors/postal carrier may be more paranoid t
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by sciencemadness 6y ago
I found it funny too, hence my "lateral move" comment :-)
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by sciencemadness 6y ago
It appears that new accounts can't edit comments. Here is the Mullis Nobel lecture mentioning Max Gergel that I meant to link in footnote 2: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1993&#x2
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by sciencemadness 6y ago
It's always a pleasure to see Sciencemadness linked here. The link is usually to this book, and with good reason. It's a classic. You don't have to be a chemist to enjoy it (though that helps). I have a main account here but