Author Archives: Margaret Littman

Glass artist Steven Webber holds the end of a five-foot metal blowpipe over a fire blazing in one of the reheat stations along the “hot wall” at his Humboldt Park studio. Sunglasses protect his eyes from the intense flame, which can reach more than 2,100 degrees Fahrenheit. Sweat rolling down his neck, he pulls the […]

In her 14 years at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, editor Linda Rothstein has published many expert opinions on how to dispose of plutonium. The conventional wisdom–bury the stuff–bored Rothstein and didn’t keep the issue out in the open where she thought it should be. “We had really grown weary about the lack of […]