http://www.metafilter.com/tags/biohazzard Posts tagged with 'biohazzard' at MetaFilter. Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:54:52 -0800 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:54:52 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/45579/Symbols <a href="http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/20/wred20.xml">✙ ☪ ◊?</a> The addition of a third protective symbol (fourth, if you count this <a href="http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList74/FA1947624978D210C1256B66005EA15B">happy lion</a>) will allow the <a href="http://www.magendavidadom.org/redcross.asp">Magen David Adom</a> of Israel to join the Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies after over 50 years. It might look odd, but a lot of other symbols we take for granted have interesting recent origins. ☮ was <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/addpages/PeaceSymbolArticle.html">designed in 1958</a>. ☣ was <a href="http://www.hms.harvard.edu/orsp/coms/BiosafetyResources/History-of-Biohazard-Symbol.htm">created by Dow</a> in 1966. ☢ first appeared <a href="http://www.orau.org/ptp/articlesstories/radwarnsymbstory.htm">as a doodle</a> in the 1940s. The <a href="http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=167">symbols of the planets</a> have many origins, but here on earth, the origins of ☺ remain so <a href="http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_031.html">convoluted</a> that it might take a <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/davinci/robertlangdon/">fictional "symbologist</a>" to sort it all out. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.45579 Mon, 03 Oct 2005 07:54:52 -0800 biohazzard magendavidadom nuclear peace redcrescent redcross symbols blahblahblah