You can live and have ideas even if the temperature in your room is 37 degrees and even if you must walk three blocks for water, he said. Material conditions of life are not important. It was a disturbing view for an economist to hold. Leontiff died at age 93. So often the British papers get it just right.
Plutonium is certainly one of the most thrilling substances ever.
Not only is it a primary component of nuclear weapons, but ingestion of one one-millionth of a gram of it is fatal. Luckily for life on Planet Earth, it does not exist here. Or it didn t until Glenn Seaborg created it. For this the Swedish Nobel committee honored him with its great prize. Before nukes, that was the decimator s substance of choice.