Long Term Effects
Two million Fukushima residents will undergo radiation health checks for thirty years. This is not because Tokyo Electric Power Company is taking corporate responsibility, or because the Japanese nanny state is solicitous of the health of citizens. This is because the Japanese people demand an honest assessment of the real damage. Citizen groups are buying [...]
Workplace– Artist’s Model
A guy I used to know, who was a pretty good writer but needed a day job was posing for the life drawing class at RISD. “It’s the essence of job,” he said. “You go to work, you plant yourself there and stay for a number of hours. Afterwards you get paid for the number [...]
Father’s Day
Happy Father’s Day to all our readers. I’m grateful today for my father and father-in-law still well, and to my husband who is such a good father and example. I’ll try to keep the spirit going for the other 364 days of the year.
Workers Dark and Stranded at Fukushima
A damning report today from the Toronto Star details how the Fukushima nuclear disaster was worsened by lack of an emergency plan. Workers were left to their own desperate measures to try to stop the radioactive core from melting– their heroic efforts thwarted by omissions and errors of management… TOKYO — A new report says [...]
Agent Orange
From Yahoo News… HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnam on Friday started the first phase of a joint plan with former enemy the United States to clean up environmental damage leftover from the chemical defoliant Agent Orange, a lasting legacy from the Vietnam War. The work concentrates on a former U.S. military base in central Vietnam where [...]
Setback at Fukushima
“Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.”, said Einstein. The latest setback facing workers and technicians who are trying to alleviate the damage is a function of how nuclear power works. Heat is the product. In this crisis there was no better alternative than to pump tons of water into the [...]
Bioblitz
Here’s a link to Kathy Hodge reporting on Bioblitz 2011. Kathy went as an amateur naturalist and professional artist and combined the two disciplines by drawing from life and nature. Moths, bats and insects were observed and counted by hundreds of volunteers. Check out Art and Nature for details and photos of the blitz.
Radiation Hotspots
Fukushima is low in the fifteen minute news cycle, but the problem of long-lived and far traveling nuclear pollution is not going away… TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan plans to ask pregnant women and children to move away from radiation “hotspots” that were found far away from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the government said on [...]
Workplace
Someone somewhere mentioned that NPR, often accused of a liberal bias, has a show called ‘Marketplace’. But there’s no show called ‘Workplace’. I have wanted for a long time to remedy that, and I’m starting a series on this blog where we talk about work. I want to invite our readers, especially some of our [...]
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