Tsunami and after effects and earthquake after shocks are bigger threat than nuclear power plants

BBC News – Even under this worst case, though, the direct health consequences of the nuclear accident would be very small compared with the thousands already killed by the earthquake and tsunami, let alone the continued suffering of the survivors (by David Spiegelhalter Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, Cambridge University. The Daily Mail …

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New Penn World Tables 7.0 for purchasing power parity are available

University of Pennsylvania purchasing power parity tables are available (Penn World Tables 7.0) Because of China’s population and a degree of uncertainty about the rate of growth of China’s GDP as well as its actual economic size, PWT 7.0 provides two versions, an official and non-official. The former uses the ICP 2005 base estimate of …

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Fukushima Daiichi – possible crack in wall of the No. 4 reactor pool and progress on restoring power

NEI – Chief Cabinet Secretary Edano said in a recent conference that plans are in place to use 30 water cannon trucks and fire engines to spray water into the reactor 3 spent fuel pool, and TEPCO is discussing whether to do the same for the reactor 1 spent fuel pool. The spraying work is …

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Public health and nutrition determines a lot of per capita IQ which determines a lot of per capita GDP

Two studies bring together the following correlations: Public health (disease reduction during childhood and teenage development and nutrition) determines about 70% of average IQ and average IQ (and the IQ of the top 5%) determines a lot of per capita GDP. A study published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the …

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Seawater dropped from military helicopters onto Fukushima reactors and power line could restore electric powered pumps soon

Crews began aerial water spraying operations from helicopters to cool reactor 3 at Fukushima Daiichi shortly before 9 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 16. The operation was planned for the previous day, but was postponed because of high radiation levels at the plant. News sources said temperatures at reactor 3 were rising. Each helicopter is …

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3D printing method advances electrically small antenna design

Optical image of an antenna during the printing process. While most electronic components benefit from decreased size, antennas—whether in a cell phone or on an aircraft—suffer limitations in gain, efficiency, system range, and bandwidth when their size is reduced below a quarter-wavelength. New 3D antennas are electrically small relative to a wavelength (typically a twelfth …

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Global Picture via Computer graphic of the Killer Tsunami

This graphic shows how waves generated by Japan’s Honshu earthquake propagated across the Pacific Ocean, based on computer models. The different colors indicate different wave heights, as indicated by the key at lower right. A picture of the killer tsunami that was caused by the Japan earthquake. If you liked this article, please give it …

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Japan Reactor Status from 9:00 AM EST

If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial …

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