Archives for 2011

The fractious news media cackle over the Occupy movement's motives and the hygiene of its participants continues to raise the ire of astute internet citizens ...


In which Larry Summers speaks remarkably candidly about the problem of regulatory capture. You can almost see the words Timothy Geithner on his lips. ...


The Hill is reporting that Speaker Boehner is preparing to demand further budget cuts as a requirement to raising the debt ceiling for the US ...


The Washington Post and the New York Times have separately produced two new articles regarding the forensic reconstruction of the Fuskushima Daiichi accident by different ...


I found these two interesting graphics on the website of Germany’s Federal Office for Radiation Protection. The first graph shows the concentration of airborne Iodine-131 at ...


The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Public Health has published radiation monitoring data for the city of Tokyo (air distance of approximately 150 mi. from the ...


Data from the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization's (CTBTO) monitoring stations are beginning to accumulate sufficiently to estimate the quantity and type of radionucleotide release ...


The mainstream media coverage of the unfolding nuclear disaster at Japan's damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has been disappointing to say the least. From ...


An apropos follow-up to GQ's story The Day The Movies Died, Chris Dodd has become chairman and CEO of Hollywood's lobbying arm, the MPAA. Chris Dodd ...


More grave news from the Middle East region, including reports that a Saudi protest organizer, Faisal Ahmed Abdul-Ahadwas, has been killed by government forces. ...


"If movies were now seen as packages, then the new kings of the business would be marketers, who could make the wrapping on ...