BBC News – What Britain used to look like from the air
The BBC is soliciting personal reminiscences related to places in the UK photographed from the air by a company called Aerofilms (nothing to do with Aeros -hmm, yumm) in the 1920s and 1930s. Click the photos to see the video. High-quality photos of Britain before WWII. Amazing. Plus commentary in that “quaint British accent”. [...]
“Italy? Japan is next,” says successful hedge-fund manager
Update: Here is the video of the BBC Hardtalk program referred to below (Mish’s link is to the BBC audio). If you live or work in Japan, you might be interested in this BBC interview with hedge fund manager, Kyle Bass. From “Mish”(click the link below for the audio). I agre with Mish that Bass [...]
Sunflowers ineffective in radiation decontamination | Majirox News
Apparently, the sunflowers are not doing their thing. Too bad. TOKYO majirox news — Sunflowers are virtually ineffective in soaking up radioactive cesium from contaminated soil, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries MAFF on Sept. 14.Ministry officials carried out the tests from May in areas near the radiation-spewing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.Ministry officials [...]
BBC News – Japanese unite in show of self-restraint
“Solidarity” is the word used in some news articles to express or explain the respect for the feelings of others that characterizes much Japanese behaviour, and that puzzles so many Western observers. I’m not sure it is the best English word: in Japan, solidarity is more than a spontaneous expression of empathy, it is closer [...]
BBC News – Japan nuclear crisis: Radiation spike report mistaken
The incorrect reading was announced yesterday. The corrected reading is not so terrifying, but an error of this magnitude does not inspire confidence in TEPCO, does it? Aren’t these guys supposed to be the experts in radiation readings? The operators of a stricken Japanese nuclear plant have apologised for a “mistake” in reporting a radiation [...]
BBC News – Japan nuclear threat: The tsunami is the bigger tragedy
That’s what the title says, but the article is mostly about the nuclear crisis. And there’s this astonishing tidbit of information buried in it: Because more than 70 million CT scans are carried out each year, the US National Cancer Institute has estimated that 29,000 Americans will get cancer as a result of the CT [...]
Work till you drop… it’ll stave off Alzheimer’s!
Image via Wikipedia Well, well. First we get this reminder from the Telegraph (reminding us of who is really working for whom) and then barely two weeks later, this from the BBC: Keeping the brain active by working later in life may be an effective way to ward off Alzheimer’s disease, research suggests. There’s a [...]
When is a dangerous drug not a dangerous drug?
The Cough —-not Strawberry Cough Originally uploaded by BodhiSativa Photography Judging from this BBC report about the possible downgrading of the drug ‘ecstasy’, the answer would appear to be “when the British government puts it in the ‘dangerous’ category”. Over the past few months in Japan, there have been a number of cases of young [...]
British news: migration
“It’s been too easy to get into this country in the past and it’s going to get harder,” said a UK immigration minister, according to this BBC news article. The article contains a link to an interesting map showing “total numbers of Eastern European migrants in each local authority who registered for work between May [...]
