Monday, June 27
Fukushima: It's much worse than you think - Features - Al Jazeera English
Fukushima: It's much worse than you think - Features - Al Jazeera English: "'We have 20 nuclear cores exposed, the fuel pools have several cores each, that is 20 times the potential to be released than Chernobyl,' said Gundersen. 'The data I'm seeing shows that we are finding hot spots further away than we had from Chernobyl, and the amount of radiation in many of them was the amount that caused areas to be declared no-man's-land for Chernobyl. We are seeing square kilometres being found 60 to 70 kilometres away from the reactor. You can't clean all this up. We still have radioactive wild boar in Germany, 30 years after Chernobyl.'"
Friday, June 24
digital digs: the liberal arts, humanities, and opinions
digital digs: the liberal arts, humanities, and opinions: "Psychology is a very popular major (second only to business according to Princeton Review), and yet psychology majors have a lower median starting income than English, history, or philosophy. So where are the New York Times articles calling for the dismantling of psychology majors?"
Tuesday, June 21
David Axelrod finds Huntsman’s presidential candidacy ‘slightly bewildering’ - Chicago Sun-Times
David Axelrod finds Huntsman’s presidential candidacy ‘slightly bewildering’ - Chicago Sun-Times: "“Already you see him inching away from some of the positions he’s taken in the past,” Axelrod said. “He was very vociferously a supporter of cap-and-trade to try to deal with the issue of climate change. He has walked away from that. He once raised the issue of a health care mandate. He has walked away from that. He once said the stimulus was too small. He walked away form that. So, after a while, these patterns become a problem for you when you’re running for president because what people look for is consistency.”"
Monday, June 20
Sunday, June 19
William Gibson | The Paris Review
William Gibson | The Paris Review: "Finding time to work is the main problem … You write a decent book, and you’re hired as a creative-writing teacher. The next thing you know, you’re director of the program, which basically means you get less time in class and more administration, which nobody likes, so that you can hardly write anything anymore."
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