Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

Chicago Pile-1 led directly to the secret construction of the X-10 graphite reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee (left), and the B Reactor at Hanford, Washington (right). The latter produced plutonium for the first atomic bomb, detonated 957 days later about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico.

Ted Petry, the last of the 49 witnesses to this world-changing event, died in 2018 (he commemorated the 75th anniversary in 2017). Petry was a 17-year-old high school student who worked as a laborer building the 20-foot-tall pile out of tons of ultra-pure graphite, uranium metal, and uranium oxide.

see, it's not a pyramid! it's CIRCULAR that shape is FINE

My grandfather supported a family of four on a single hose man income. The American dream was alive and well back then.

It's incredible that Mesopotamian astronomers could do this AND that modern day people could translate cuneiform and figure out what they were up to.

The leading figures of the second Trump administration are the Kardashians of fascism.

I'm really tired of people pretending that this is about whether or not the essay was bad! It's not. It's about trying to purge trans people from society. The student called the TA a fucking demon, man. Do you know what that's like?