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\nI found an article that said \"The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments.\" And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it? Pull down the description for thorough references and credits. Thanks to James Lovelock for...\nI found an article that said \"The microwave was invented to heat hamsters humanely in 1950s experiments.\" And I thought, no it wasn't. ...was it? Pull down the description for thorough references and credits. Thanks to James Lovelock for his time! His latest book is Novacene [that is, of course, an Amazon affiliate link] Filmed safely - thanks to jabs, PCR tests, isolation and distancing. I did consider whether to do an extended interview with Dr Lovelock, but the Science Museum has already done far better than I ever could: On cyborgs, asteroids and Gaia theory On his greatest epiphany An extended 90-minute interview from the Lovelock Centenary Conference REFERENCES: HISTORY OF THE MICROWAVE: I Burrell, in the Independent, 1997: \"Your money, or the cat gets microwaved\" M Blitz, \"The Amazing True Story of How the Microwave Was Invented by Accident\" E Schliephake, \"Ultra-short waves in medicine\" in Short Wave Craft, Vol. 3, No. 11, March 1933, p. 646 [PDF] E Ackerman, \"A Brief History of the Microwave Oven\", IEEE Spectrum Radarange photo from Acroterion - image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, James Lovelock in 1962: Photo by Donald Uhrbrock/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images PAPERS FROM NIMR: A Smith, J Lovelock, A Parkes, 1954: Resuscitation of Hamsters after Supercooling or Partial Crystallization at Body Temperatures Below 0° C.. Nature 173, 1136–1137. R K Andjus, J E Lovelock, 1955: Reanimation of rats from body temperatures between 0 and 1° C by microwave diathermy. The Journal of Physiology, 128. Lovelock, J E, Smith A U, 1959, Heat transfer from and to animals in experimental hypothermia and freezing. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 80: 487-499. Hi! You pulled down the description, which means you've unlocked a secret: I'm testing out a weekly newsletter, to help get around The Algorithm. It goes out on Mondays, contains a link to that week's video, but it also has a load of other interesting things that I've found over the week. I'm not publicising it much right now because I'm still testing that everything works, but if you want to subscribe, you should go here I'm at on Twitter at on Facebook at and on Instagram as tomscottgo\n
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