Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
The Criminalization of Everyday Life
December 10th, 2013Via: Tom Dispatch: If all you’ve got is a hammer, then everything starts to look like a nail. And if police and prosecutors are your only tool, sooner or later everything and everyone will be treated as criminal. This is increasingly the American way of life, a path that involves “solving” social problems (and even […]
Fukushima: Outdoor Radiation Reading 25 Sieverts Per Hour
December 9th, 2013Via: news.com.au: WELCOME to Fukushima, where the radiation’s so bad it can be fatal within 20 minutes. The tsunami may have happened some 33 months ago, but the fallout just keeps getting worse. Japanese media is reporting that the intensity of radiation levels in the nuclear powerplant devastated by the earthquake – and subsequent tidal […]
Vast, Nonrenewable Freshwater Reserves Found Beneath the Oceans
December 9th, 2013So let’s just get this straight: The same expensive equipment that’s used to drill for oil would be used to drill… for water. Man, sometimes, I just love coming to work at Cryptogon for the comedy factor alone. Oh yeah, these are nonrenewable aquifers and prone to damage by drilling operations. Maybe buy some canned […]
U.S. Doctors Choose a $2000 Drug Instead of a $50 Alternative to Treat Eye Condition
December 8th, 2013Via: Washington Post: The two drugs have been declared equivalently miraculous. Tested side by side in six major trials, both prevent blindness in a common old-age affliction. Biologically, they are cousins. They’re even made by the same company. But one holds a clear price advantage. Avastin costs about $50 per injection. Lucentis costs about $2,000 […]
Dangerous Air Pollution in Shanghai, Schoolchildren Ordered Indoors
December 6th, 2013Via: Guardian: Shanghai authorities ordered schoolchildren indoors and halted all construction on Friday as China’s financial hub suffered one its worst bouts of air pollution, bringing visibility down to a few dozen meters and obscuring the city’s spectacular skyline. The financial district was shrouded in a yellow haze and noticeably fewer people walked the city’s […]
Newborn-to-Toddler Apptivity™ Seat
December 5th, 2013Television and other entertainment media should be avoided for infants and children under age 2. A child’s brain develops rapidly during these first years, and young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens. —American Academy of Pediatrics In other news: Screen Time Resulting in Children Turning Up to Doctors with Motor Delays, Decreased […]
Typhoons Spread Fukushima Fallout
November 29th, 2013Via: AFP: Typhoons that hit Japan each year are helping spread radioactive material from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the country’s waterways, researchers say. Contaminated soil gets washed away by the high winds and rain and deposited in streams and rivers, a joint study by France’s Climate and Environmental Science laboratory (LSCE) and Tsukuba University […]
Israelis Secretly Inspect Saudi Bases; Possible Staging Ground for Strikes Against Iran
November 24th, 2013As a response, would Iran blow up Saudi Aramco’s deep water oil terminal at Ras Tanura, or close shipping through the Strait of Hormuz? Decisions, decisions. Via: Klein Online: Israeli personnel in recent days were in Saudi Arabia to inspect bases that could be used as a staging ground to launch attacks against Iran, according […]
The City Addicted to Crystal Meth: The Methamphetamine Zombie Apocalypse in Fresno
November 20th, 2013This is a documentary from 2009. I think that YouTube recommended it to me because I was looking at videos about Breaking Bad. Via: BBC:
Fukushima Plant Fuel Rod Removals to Begin Today
November 17th, 2013Via: Blomberg: Tokyo Electric Power Co. will begin removing spent fuel today from the wrecked Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear facility, an early milestone in decommissioning that could threaten another crisis if mishandled. Removal of the first of the 1,533 fuel-rod assemblies at the plant’s No. 4 reactor building is scheduled to begin at about 3 p.m., […]
