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    1 month ago

    “Nuclear” sounds scary

    Related, unfun fact: MRI used to be called NMRI, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, because it used the nuclear magnetic resonance phenomenon (literally a nuclear vibe check), but people were so afraid of the word “nuclear” that it was dropped.