Radiation Soars at Fukushima — to 10 Sieverts Per Hour
NHK English, and Al Jazeera (but, weirdly, not yet The Japan Times) are reporting that the damaged Fukushima...
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The Anti-Obama Right Grabs at Anti-U.S. Pakistani Conspiracy Delusion
As a second nuclear plant in Nebraska issued a “notification of unusual event” because of rising floodwaters, right-wingers are...
Pakistani Slam Piece Spreads Panic Over Ft. Calhoun
A truly crazed article in Pakistan’s The Nation leads one to believe that the Fort Calhoun nuclear plant...
No-Fly Zone, “Level 4 Emergency” at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant?
About an hour ago, Reuters published an article reassuring readers about the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant, North of Omaha,...
There’s Still-Molten Fuel at Fukushima?
In The Telegraph today, there’s an article about the confirmation, finally forthcoming from Tokyo Electric & Power (Tepco) that...
iPad-Controlled Quadricopter Surveys Tuscaloosa Storm Damage
The mainstream news is finally catching up on the robot takeover of the globe — and I, for one,...
What Happens When You Get Sucked Out Of A Plane
I don’t know about you, but I fly a lot and I always have these emergency fantasy scenarios in...
Magnitude 7.4 Quake Hits Japan; No Abnormality at Fukushima
The Associated Press reported about 20 minutes ago as of this writing that a magnitude 7.4 quake hit off...
Egyptian Cobra Reported Missing at Bronx Zoo
To celebrate the imminent disappearance of the New York Times from my life, I took a long, slow dance...
Radioactive “Zenon” Detected in Fallout from American Science Reporting Meltdown
In tonight’s entry in The Chronicles of Dubious Science Reporting, you could track the high achievement in atomic-powered journalism...