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The Dangerous Kit

By Machiavelli | Published: January 4, 2010
“The Dangerous Kit” teaches kids at a young age not to be afraid of the world around them and to be critical thinkers by providing hands-on experience with items at different times in culture have been seen as shockingly dangerous when the true scale of their deleterious effects is between zilch and inane. A booklet [...]
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Thorium, Blood of Civilization

By Machiavelli | Published: January 3, 2010
When the choices for developing nuclear energy were being made, uranium was chosen because it had the byproduct of producing plutonium that could be weaponized. But thorium is safer, easier to work with, and gads more efficient. The plants are smaller, use a hundred times less fuel by mass, and the operating costs are much [...]
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The Perfect Crime

By Machiavelli | Published: January 3, 2010
Purchase and intentionally age soft drinks before giving them to someone. The drinks will retain their bubble and taste, all the while becoming cerebrally carcinogenic dietary saboteurs. According to Wikipedia, “[R]esearchers found that 6 months after aspartame was put into carbonated beverages, 25% of the aspartame had been converted to DKP.”1 If this is true, [...]
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