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Body-Scanner Updates and Links

by Hans|Published November 19, 2010|1 comment

Today’s post is a mix of recent updates and older background posts on full-body scanners.

Kevin Poulsen writes in Wired that New York City may forbid TSA from using body scanners at New York airports, including JFK.
There’s a summary on full-body scanners in New Scientist.
Here’s an older piece from Scientific American on body scanners,
And another piece from Jeffrey Rosen at The New Republic.
Finally NMA.tv “explains” the controversy to their Taiwanese audience:

Previously on ÆtherCzar:

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Hans

Hans G. Schantz is the Principal Scientist of Geeks and Nerds Corporation (GaN). He was co-founder and CTO of Q-Track Corporation until GaN's acquisition of Q-Track in 2019. Co-inventor of NFER indoor location technology, he has more than 40 U.S. patents to his credit. He is the author of The Art and Science of Ultrawideband Antennas, The Biographies of John Charles Fremont, and the science fiction thriller, The Hidden Truth, available free through Kindle Unlimited. The sequel, A Rambling Wreck, was a finalist for the Conservative Libertarian Fiction Alliance 2018 Book of the Year, and third in the series is The Brave and the Bold. His latest work is The Wise of Heart, an illustrated courtroom drama of biological science versus transgenderism that updates the Scopes Monkey Trial for the twenty-first century. Dr. Schantz earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Texas at Austin. alternate history science fiction techno-thriller, The Hidden Truth.

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