Japan Earthquake 2011

Yasuteru Yamada proposes that the elders take over the radioactive cleanup and his arguments are absolutely in-discussable. The 72 year old retiree is recruiting other elders based on the premise that, on average, they have at most 12-15 years left to live, and it would be difficult to catch,...

I know, we all have disaster fatigue now – but the fourth biggest earthquake in recorded history hit Japan a couple of weeks ago and was followed up with a tsunami chaser. The situation on the ground in the worst areas is bad: roads are gone or covered in...

While the government of Japan does their best to assuage our fears, the situation at TEPCO’s Daiichi nuclear power plant seems nothing short of dire. Nuclear energy has a polarizing effect on scientists; they either love it or hate it, often in equal measure. The facts: the reactor designs...

The massive earthquake 8.9 / 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan last week has not only devastated the country. It’s shifted the earth’s figure axis (the axis balanced by mass) about 15 centimeters and this is going to make days shorter. According to NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s (JPL) specialist Richard...