Monday
Apr042011
Forging his way through the predictable UK media censorship: Dr Andrew Wakefield Responds to Measles Outbreak in Swansea
Entries in Japan (13)
Tuesday
Mar292011
Obama's March Madness
March 29, 2011 President Obama’s pick of Kansas to win the “March Madness” collegiate basketball tournament ended with their defeat by Virginia Commonwealth University this past Saturday. He must know how the Jay Hawks are feeling because he is entangled in his own March Madness that will continue after this month ends.
Thursday
Mar242011
Geologists warn another earthquake could tear Tokyo in two after weakening of fault line below capital
March 24, 2011 Geologists have warned that another powerful earthquake could inflict terrible damage on Tokyo because the Size 9 monster which struck on March 11 has altered the earth's surface.
Thursday
Mar242011
Earthquake science advances - does nuclear safety keep up?
March 24, 2011 The 104 nuclear reactors providing 20 percent of America's electric power were designed and built in the 1960s and '70s, an era when seismologists knew much less about earthquakes than they do today. Now that Japan's 9.0 magnitude earthquake has focused world attention on desperate efforts to halt the release of deadly radiation and on warnings to parents not to give their young children radiation-tainted tap water in Tokyo, U.S. regulators and nuclear industry advocates are scrambling to convince the public that America's reactors are safe.
Wednesday
Mar232011
John LaForge: Spewing from Meltdowns: Dangerous Plumes of Disinformation
March 23, 2011 Well-reported plumes of radiation have spread to California and beyond from the wrecked six-reactor complex at Fukushima, Japan. What’s worse in terms of citizen awareness, clouds of disinformation are circling even faster.
Wednesday
Mar232011
Tom Engelhardt: Irradiated Zone -- Don’t Go There!
March 23, 2011 “Seldom more than thrice annually did any layman or stranger travel the old road that passed the abbey, in spite of the oasis which permitted that abbey’s existence and which would have made the monastery a natural inn for wayfarers if the road were not a road from nowhere, leading nowhere, in terms of the modes of travel in those times. Perhaps, in earlier ages, the road had been a portion of the shortest route from the Great Salt Lake to Old El Paso; south of the abbey it intersected a similar strip of broken stone that stretched east- and westward. The crossing was worn by time, but not by Man, of late.”
Print Article | Permalink | tagged A Canticle for Leibowitz, Catastrophe, Health, Japan | in World Economics Friday
Mar182011
The megaquake connection: Are huge earthquakes linked?
March 18, 2011 The recent cluster of huge quakes around the Pacific Ocean has fuelled speculation that they are seismically linked. New Scientist examines the evidence
Wednesday
Mar162011
14 Reasons Why The Economic Collapse Of Japan Has Begun
March 16, 2011 The economic collapse of Japan has begun. The extent of the devastation is now becoming clear and many are now projecting that this will be the most expensive natural disaster in modern human history.
Wednesday
Mar162011
Fire in Fuel Pools 'Would Raise Radiation Exposure'
March 16, 2011 A fire at the stores of spent atomic fuel in Japan's stricken nuclear reactors would dramatically raise the dangers of a radiation leak, scientists have warned.
Wednesday
Mar162011
Protecting Yourself in a Nuclear Emergency with Potassium Iodide
March 16, 2011 The possibility of radioactive contamination from a device detonated by terrorists within the country’s borders is a frightening scenario. In such an emergency, exposure to radioactive iodine is a haunting specter that could see many individuals succumb to thyroid cancer.