news, nuclear edition
Aug. 20th, 2013 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheMore Than Two Years After Meltdown, Doubt and Fear Remain Over Fukushima's Safety
After Chernobyl, complexity surrounds local health problems -- These first two links are current.
Here are some of the articles written contemporaneously about Chernobyl. These are from the Chicago Tribune, which did not report on the disaster until four days after the event (according to one article, "The accident occurred last Friday or Saturday, [...] but the U.S. learned of it only Monday through a report by Tass, the Soviet news agency").
When Chernobyl hit, another environmental issue--that of acid rain--was prominent in U.S. newspapers as well. While researching acid rain, I came across the term "rain dust" which is a type of alkaline rain. At the end of that article, it read, "Some radioactivity in rain dust falls to Greece in 2000 was caused by the Chernobyl disaster." (!!)
In other topics:
Head Start hit with worst cuts in its history
Scandinavian Swimmers Warned About Testicle-Attacking Monster Fish -- This is from Gawker, not the Onion.
Beetles eat greedy offspring Edinburgh University research finds -- The squeaky wheel may get the grease, but the squeaky beetle gets swallowed.
New music 'rewarding for the brain' -- an article I missed posting earlier this year (features the nucleus accumbens & the auditory cortical stores)
After Chernobyl, complexity surrounds local health problems -- These first two links are current.
Here are some of the articles written contemporaneously about Chernobyl. These are from the Chicago Tribune, which did not report on the disaster until four days after the event (according to one article, "The accident occurred last Friday or Saturday, [...] but the U.S. learned of it only Monday through a report by Tass, the Soviet news agency").
When Chernobyl hit, another environmental issue--that of acid rain--was prominent in U.S. newspapers as well. While researching acid rain, I came across the term "rain dust" which is a type of alkaline rain. At the end of that article, it read, "Some radioactivity in rain dust falls to Greece in 2000 was caused by the Chernobyl disaster." (!!)
In other topics:
Head Start hit with worst cuts in its history
Scandinavian Swimmers Warned About Testicle-Attacking Monster Fish -- This is from Gawker, not the Onion.
Beetles eat greedy offspring Edinburgh University research finds -- The squeaky wheel may get the grease, but the squeaky beetle gets swallowed.
New music 'rewarding for the brain' -- an article I missed posting earlier this year (features the nucleus accumbens & the auditory cortical stores)