subatomic physics on the Central Line

This is a nice fragment capturing the strange times we live through. Today's Metro backs up its coverage of energy policy with a handy graphical description of 'The facts behind the arguments', including a quick run through on 'How nuclear fission works'. (For my non-London readers, Metro is a free anaesthetic that is distributed on the London Underground to help block out the fact of having a stranger's armpit in one's face. It has proved so potent that it would have been declared illegal, had the stakes not been later raised by far more dangerous drugs such as 'London Lite' and 'Thelondonpaper', who share the editorial motto "one word per picture".)

I think this is what some sociologists mean by the term 'late modernity'.

Comments

[stet]

The deictics are very nice and sympathetic (the "we" and the "our" in "where we get our uranium"). Except perhaps if you read them as "we Metro readers" (then it's scary).

[Will Davies]

Who knows - perhaps Metro is trying to build a nuclear bomb. You heard it here first.

[John]

Sadly, The Metro is not just confined to London (as you imply) but most major cities in the UK. Whenever I am carrying out ethnography in Glasgow, Newcastle, Manchester, Birmingham I am reminded of its rather dry brand