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Anthropologist: Japan Will Rise Above This Disaster

By Guest PostApril 9, 2011Economy, Generalanthropology, bernard bernier, catastrophe, daniel desmarais, disaster zone, forces of nature, fruits and vegetables, Hiroshima, Japan, japanese people, low birth rate, model of urbanism, potential radioactive contamination, water supply

“Japan will recover from the catastrophe that has hit its shores,” says Bernard Bernier, director of the Université de Montréal Department of Anthropology. “This will not be a turning point in the country’s history.”

“I don’t want to underestimate the repercussions of the drama that has unfolded in the affected communities,” says Bernier. “In addition to the dead and the wounded, 300,000 people are now homeless. And the national economy is greatly indebted, which will make it that much more difficult to finance reconstruction projects. But the country has rolled up its sleeves before.” (more…)

Chernobyl Effects Could Last for Centuries

By PravdaSeptember 4, 2010EnvironmentChernobyl, david sumner, Greenpeace, Hiroshima, iaea, ian fairly, international atomic energy agency, mir, mutations, Nagasaki, NASA, nuclear accident, nuclear power plant, oksana kostikov, pavol stracansky, radiation, radioactive contamination, rianne teuleI, russian space station, thyroid cancer, WHO, wladimir wertelecki, world health organization

Nearly 25 years after the worst nuclear accident in history, new scientific findings suggest that the effects of the explosion at Chernobyl have been underestimated. Experts last month published a series of studies indicating that, contrary to previous findings, populations of animals decreased in the exclusion zone surrounding the site of the former nuclear power plant, and that the effects of radioactive contamination after the outbreak had been “overwhelming.”

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Volcanoes More Dangerous to Earth than Nuclear Bombs

By PravdaSeptember 2, 20101 commentEnvironmentantilles, april, atlantis, catania, crete-mycenaean, eruption, etna, Europe, eyyafyatlayokudlya, Hiroshima, Iceland, indonesian volcano, kamchatka peninsula, krakatau, martinique, mediterranean, minoan civilization, mont pele, peak sarychev, pompeii, santorini, sergei balmasov, sergei fedorov, soufriere, st vincent, tambora volcano, traffic jams, vesuvius, volcanic activity, volcanologist

Many still remember traffic jams in Europe, caused by the April eruption of Eyyafyatlayokudlya. Scientists around the world genuinely fear the catastrophic consequences of volcanic activity.

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The Wisedom

By ShamsOctober 31, 2008CultureAbu Ghraib, Alaskan, atomic weapons, Barack Obama, Clinton, Hiroshima, John McCain, Nagasaki, Nixon, Sarah Palin, Vietman

Senator Obama is in full swing (in full power) in his presidential campaign and as the latest polls show he is leading against the Republican candidate Senator John McCain.

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Anthropologist: Japan Will Rise Above This Disaster

Chernobyl Effects Could Last for Centuries

Volcanoes More Dangerous to Earth than Nuclear Bombs

The Wisedom