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Leonard George DeStoppelaire (January 5, 1923 – February 12, 2006), better known as Lenny Dee, was a virtuoso organist who played many styles of music. His record albums were among the most popular of easy listening and space age pop organists of the 1950s through the early 1970s. His signature hit, Plantation Boogie, charted as a Top 20 hit in 1955. He also had a gold record with 1970's Spinning Wheel.
Dee played a variety of songs in numerous styles. He played original compositions, popular songs, and novelty tunes, and was a master of improvisation. Although his unique style was a pop/boogie-woogie blend, he also played ballads, country and western, jazz, rock, and patriotic songs.
Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1923, Dee was an only child (though it is sometimes erroneously reported that he was one of eleven or twelve children). As a child, he sang in his church's choir; he also played ukulele, banjo and accordion. As a teenager, he turned playing the accordion into a profession in his uncle's quartet, which he continued until he volunteered into the Navy during World War II in 1943.
Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. This is compared with the "hot" fusion which takes place naturally within stars, under immense pressure and at temperatures of millions of degrees, and distinguished from muon-catalyzed fusion. There is currently no accepted theoretical model which would allow cold fusion to occur.
In 1989 Martin Fleischmann (then one of the world's leading electrochemists) and Stanley Pons reported that their apparatus had produced anomalous heat ("excess heat") of a magnitude they asserted would defy explanation except in terms of nuclear processes. They further reported measuring small amounts of nuclear reaction byproducts, including neutrons and tritium. The small tabletop experiment involved electrolysis of heavy water on the surface of a palladium (Pd) electrode. The reported results received wide media attention, and raised hopes of a cheap and abundant source of energy.
Cold fusion (aka low-energy nuclear reaction or LENR) is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at or near room temperature, originally put forward by electrochemists Fleischmann and Pons.
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"Cold Fusion" is the thirty-sixth episode of the science fiction television series 2002 revival of The Twilight Zone. The episode was first broadcast on April 2, 2003, on UPN.
A physicist named Dr. Paul Thorson (Sean Patrick Flanery) is sent by Admiral Munro (Scott Hylands) to an Alaskan research base to investigate the staff's loss of contact with the outside world. The researchers are working on Project Gemini, a secret research project that Thorson is supposed to put back on track. The helicopter drops him off and he enters the base. He finds a paranoid Marine corporal, Gordon (Gordon Michael Woolvett) firing at a door leading to a secure lab. Thorson tries to calm Gordon down, but the corporal says that "he" has locked himself in the lab and is preparing to activate Gemini, destroying them all. Thorson tries to explain that Gemini is not a destructive device but Gordon insists that "Chandler" is the one responsible. Thorson has not heard of anyone called Chandler and cannot find the name in the staff log. Gordon claims that Chandler created Gemini and then went nuts, driving all but three station personnel out into the snow at gunpoint to freeze to death.
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Gen Z is really going through it at the moment. From high inflation, rising interest rates and impossible housing. In this episode we find out the reasons on why Gen Z is so poor. Sources and notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i7d3vRiY2DH23p5qbKYumDVuCZzV5ipBYbrtmEhKpVc/edit?usp=sharing ColdFusion Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ThroughTheWeb ColdFusion Music: https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusionmusic http://burnwater.bandcamp.com Get my book: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/ColdFusionTV https://twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV https://instagram.com/coldfusiontv Created by: Dagogo Altraide Producers: Tawsif Akkas, Dagogo Altraide Writers: Laura Woods, Dagogo Altraide Editors: Brayden Laffrey, Dagog...
Go to https://ground.news/coldfusion to stay fully informed on every side of every story. Save 50% on unlimited access with their Vantage Plan through my link. It's their biggest sale of the year! Samsung has been on an unstoppable tear for the last decade, but has its luck finally run out. A stock panic triggered a $122 billion blow out. In this episode we'll see what's going on behind the scenes. Sources and notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/116VgttdocC2uQ9yEi99hC-SXYEQ0axc3_r8bDW-tvzY/edit?usp=sharing ColdFusion Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ThroughTheWeb ColdFusion Music: https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusionmusic http://burnwater.bandcamp.com Get my book: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/C...
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Go to https://brilliant.org/coldfusion for 30-day free trial + 20% off! In this episode we check out the details on a world first: Banning children under 16 from using social media. On the surface it sounds fine but as you dig deeper, things get murky. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dCTHXsup8Xb6ZqOiBQKFY-uQ9Go413Bog-IciZb6OZY/edit?usp=sharing ColdFusion Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ThroughTheWeb ColdFusion Music: https://www.youtube.com/@ColdFusionmusic http://burnwater.bandcamp.com Get my book: http://bit.ly/NewThinkingbook ColdFusion Socials: https://discord.gg/coldfusion https://facebook.com/ColdFusionTV https://twitter.com/ColdFusion_TV https://instagram.com/coldfusiontv Created by: Dagogo Altraide Producers: Tawsif Akkas, Dagogo Altraide Writ...
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Leonard George DeStoppelaire (January 5, 1923 – February 12, 2006), better known as Lenny Dee, was a virtuoso organist who played many styles of music. His record albums were among the most popular of easy listening and space age pop organists of the 1950s through the early 1970s. His signature hit, Plantation Boogie, charted as a Top 20 hit in 1955. He also had a gold record with 1970's Spinning Wheel.
Dee played a variety of songs in numerous styles. He played original compositions, popular songs, and novelty tunes, and was a master of improvisation. Although his unique style was a pop/boogie-woogie blend, he also played ballads, country and western, jazz, rock, and patriotic songs.
Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1923, Dee was an only child (though it is sometimes erroneously reported that he was one of eleven or twelve children). As a child, he sang in his church's choir; he also played ukulele, banjo and accordion. As a teenager, he turned playing the accordion into a profession in his uncle's quartet, which he continued until he volunteered into the Navy during World War II in 1943.