[ via FoRK-list ] A graduate student in anthropology at Stanford, active in the anti-nuclear movement, chose the people working at our nuclear weapons labs as a research topic:
I was shocked to discover that I really liked him, as a person. Till that moment, people on the other side of the debate were very abstract to me. I’d never met any of them. Yet, my whole life was devoted to undoing their work. I began to wonder more about what kind of people they were.
When I joined EPRI in 1996, I was assigned to support the web efforts of the environment and nuclear power groups. There were more economists than enviromental scientists in the environment group. But the nuclear engineers won my respect (even if we often locked horns on who’d host a server.) And even if I’m registered Green, I’ve put aside my hostility to nuclear power. Of course, my Dad, the life-long Republican, doesn’t support nuclear power (or electricity deregulation). We’re a odd bunch.
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