Fukushima Daiichi - WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?! I will tell you.

Thu Jun 30, 2011 10:08 PM EDT

-@BottomfedBuddha Well my friends, here we are. "And where is that?" I ask.

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world-news, japan, love, newsvine, peace, success, safety, solutions, meltdown, survival

Rising water, falling journalism - Ft Calhoun

Seeded on Fri Jun 17, 2011 11:28 AM EDT (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)

Every evening, my father climbs the levee along the Missouri River in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and peers down into the black water that swallows the road. The water is rising, and the Army Corps of Engineers says the levee has never faced such a test.

us-news, nuclear, power, disaster, meltdown, nebraska, plant, flood, nrc, good-gracious-i-hope-the-levees-hold

Sarah Palin Has No Idea Who Paul Revere Was, Or What He Did

Seeded on Fri Jun 3, 2011 4:05 PM EDT (Wonkette » top)

Jabbering imbecile Sarah Palin and her rented tour bus continue to bring laughs to America.

politics, usa, palin, otb, who-supports-this-idiot

E. Coli outbreak spreads to America

Seeded on Fri Jun 3, 2011 2:53 PM EDT (Russia Today)

Three Americans who recently returned from a trip to Germany have been infected the same E. Coli strand that has spread through the EU and already killed 18 people and left over 1,800 ill. It is considered to be the deadliest E. Coli outbreak on record.

us-news, usa, e-coli, outbreak-otb

Letter from a Fukushima Mother

Sun May 29, 2011 10:13 PM EDT

Letter from a Fukushima mother When Tomoko-san, a mother of two in Fukushima City, heard from an NGO worker that I was going to be in Fukushima to report on a story about radiation levels at local schools, she was kind enough to volunteer her time to speak to me – and …

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Where does good come from? - The Boston Globe

Seeded on Tue May 24, 2011 4:54 PM EDT (The Boston Globe)

On a recent Monday afternoon, the distinguished Harvard biologist Edward O.

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Let's Just Go Ahead And Assume We've Learned The Lessons Of The Gabrielle Giffords Shooting | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Seeded on Tue May 24, 2011 1:53 PM EDT (The Onion)

On Jan. 8, 2011, we as a society were shocked and dismayed when 19 people, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democratic congresswoman from Arizona's 8th District, were shot during a public meeting outside a local supermarket. Six people were killed and Rep.

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Fukushima Daiichi: A Problem Worth Solving

Tue May 17, 2011 11:49 PM EDT

Greetings fellow denizens of the World, Every day on which I’ve taken time to work on this piece, over a trillion becquerels (one Becquerel being a single nuclear decay, and that nuclear decay being more or less dangerous depending on the element from which it is decaying) …

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Fukushima Reactor Building #4 is Leaning

Seeded on Tue May 10, 2011 8:20 PM EDT (YouTube)

Russia Today discusses the evacuation zones around Fukusihma and the now obvious listing of the Reactor 4 building. That's correct, the compromised building is listing, with millions of pounds of water perched atop it, in an earthquake zone. If only someone had come up with a pla …

us-news, japan, nuclear, power, solutions, meltdown, plant, fukushima, earthquakenhk-world, fukushima-rt

Zeolite and Active Venting: Parts of a Viable Plan to Control Emissions from Fukushima

Tue May 3, 2011 9:58 PM EDT

Zeolite should be added into the sand/borax reactor building fill matrix.

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A Viable Plan for Emergency Containment at Fukushima: Support this Campaign

Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:14 PM EDT

TEPCO MUST reduce the potential for catastrophic exposure to the general population of Japan by burying these out-of-control rods. Tepco's best plans at this point are basically, "We will repair the unrepairable cooling systems that were blown to pieces by the previous explosion …

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Fukushima is not Chernobyl, and does not require a Chernobyl Solution

Fri Apr 1, 2011 1:01 AM EDT

There is no such thing as a Chernobyl solution. There can't be, because the two situations are nothing alike. Chernobyl was one massive explosion, resulting from a complete meltdown of the core and explosion of the fissionable gases which has no containment vessel to retain them.

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USA: Potentially Missing a Golden Libyan Opportunity

Wed Mar 9, 2011 3:02 PM EST

Regarding Libya, I'm somewhat ashamed of the United States' response so far. You only get so many golden, international stage-setting opportunities to walk your talk.

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A Nervous Asia Welcomes Larger U.S. role

Seeded on Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:55 PM EST (CNN)

President Obama's trip to Asia comes at a time when major powers in the region are welcoming a greater U.S. role to counter China's increasingly assertive stance, says CNN analyst Fareed Zakaria.

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The Beginning of the End of the U.S.A.

Wed Sep 29, 2010 9:56 PM EDT

This may be it. I'll begin by saying that I do believe I will be an American patriot to the bitter end.

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OTB 3: Staring at Death in an Avalanche Chute

Tue Sep 1, 2009 6:11 PM EDT

I was up with a group of folks camping and climbing around Lake Agnes in Colorado over Labor Day weekend. We got a good early start and made it up to the main lake, pressed on to the upper lake, and then decided to proceed on up to a saddle that looked doable.

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Billups the General

Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:31 PM EST

The issue of the Billups vs Iverson trade and how it impacted both teams will likely be a hot topic all season long.

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Prosecuter of the Weathermen Calls out Smears About Obama in Letter to NYT

Seeded on Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:03 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Seeded by StacyM (Clipped by otb)

As the lead federal prosecutor of the Weathermen in the 1970s (I was then chief of the criminal division in the Eastern District of Michigan and took over the Weathermen prosecution in 1972), I am amazed and outraged that Senator Barack Obama is being linked to William Ayers's …

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John McCain, I am not your friend.

Wed Oct 8, 2008 12:11 AM EDT

A simple count of the phrase "my friend" in the second presidential debate transcript tells the story: McCain - 22 Obama - 0 Fear and pride. The Ministry of War and the Ministry of Truth. These are the tools of the grand Old party.

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Otb's Analysis: Palin

Mon Oct 6, 2008 6:31 PM EDT

It's been reiterated in many ways - this woman is not fit to serve.

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OTB: A Breakdown of my Ideas and Beliefs

Thu Sep 4, 2008 10:17 PM EDT

I'm not sure I've ever actually written out a comprehensive list of my ideas and beliefs, so maybe I will also learn something about myself through this experience.

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Palin? Really?

Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:02 PM EDT

It makes perfect sense. If you're insane... (read: senile)

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Assignment: The confused clock

Thu Aug 21, 2008 5:36 PM EDT

Edit: This is a submission in response to Scott Butki's ongoing set of writing challenges... explained here

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entertainment, personal-interest, confused-clock, scott-assignment

Obama's Celebrity Status: The Basis of the fame is the Crux

Mon Aug 11, 2008 6:56 PM EDT

I have been attempting to grapple with McCain's insistence on harping on Obama's popularity, and trying to establish for myself what the point of these attacks are.

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