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Food Sickens Millions as Company-Paid Checks Find It Safe
William Beach loved cantaloupe — so much so that starting in June last year he ate it almost every day. By August, the 87-year-old retired tractor mechanic from Mustang, Oklahoma, was complaining to his family ...
New Treatment System Could See Discharges Into Pacific as Storage Space Rapidly Runs Out No. 1 Radioactive Water Tanks Maxed
Workers at the Fukushima No. 1 plant are struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water used to cool its crippled reactors, the manager of the water treatment ...
Cyberdyne Unveils Improved Robotsuit ‘HAL’
Both the names Cyberdyne and HAL may not be the best names to imply a positive omen for the robotic suit, given the connotation to the Terminator and 2001: A Space Odyssey movies. tomshardware.com | Oct 21, 2012 by Wolfgang … Continue reading →
Can Ginger Beat Out The Multi-Billion Dollar Acid Blockers?
Did you know that the multi-billion drug category known as “acid blockers,” despite being used by millions around the world daily, may not work as well as the humble ginger plant in relieving symptoms of ...
15 Houseplants For Improving Indoor Air Quality According To NASA
Our space program has led the way to a fascinating and important discovery about the role of houseplants indoors. NASA has been researching methods of cleansing the atmosphere in future space stations to keep them ...
Fukushima Fish Carrying 258 Times the ‘Safe’ Level of Radiation
A pair of fish captured near Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant have shown to be carrying record levels of radiation. The pair of greenlings are contaminated with 258 times the level government deems safe for ...
The Ever-Shrinking Burden of Proof
Taking the “scary Iran story” angle to a new low, a new report today reveals that Iran could theoretically make 5 nuclear bombs if it took all of its civilian uranium and dedicated it exclusively to weapons production. The bulk of Iran’s uranium is enriched to 3.5%, the level needed to power the Bushehr plant, ...
Japanese tsunami debris ‘to reach Hawaii in next few days’
Japanese Tsunami debris will make landfall soon on small atolls northwest of the main Hawaiian Islands Lumber, boats and other debris ripped from Japanese coastal towns by tsunamis last year have spread across some 3,000 miles to areas halfway across … Continue reading →
How the Yakuza went nuclear
Suzuki Tomohiko’s book on the ties between the yakuza and the nuclear industry What really went wrong at the Fukushima plant? One undercover reporter risked his life to find out Telegraph | Feb 21, 2012 By Jake Adelstein On March … Continue reading →
24 hour shifts, suicide nets, toxic exposure and explosions: Inside the Chinese iPad factories
Unpleasant sight: Nets to prevent workers from jumping to their deaths are pictured outside one of the Foxconn factory buildings in the township of Longhua, in southern Guangdong province ‘Work hard on the job today or work hard to find … Continue reading →
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