One of my first memories of watching TV during the early 1950s was ads promoting leaded gasoline for reducing engine knock. Little did I suspect the strange history of that gas. By the beginning of World War I, it became clear that the internal combustion automobile was edging out its rival steam cars and electric cars. Shortly afterwards, Thomas Midgley began researching how to remove the knocking “ping” sound from gasoline-powered cars.
A group of scientists have detected traces of radioactive material from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in bottles of wine made in California at levels higher than before the power plant exploded and melted down.
(ZHE) Following the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan — which left Japanese residents contending with toxic water and radioactive wild boars, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said that particles of radioactive fallout which made its way to the Western United States and elsewhere was no biggie and didn’t pose a health risk. California […]
New report warns of electromagnetic radiation from power lines, wi-fi, phone masts and broadcast transmitters that threaten wildlife amid growing health concerns over the rollout of 5G small-cell transmitters and antennas. 237 scientists have signed an appeal to the United Nations asking them to take the risks of electromagnetic radiation more seriously. The goal is to have 100 billion new devices online connected to the internet to be monitored by an energy authority for global control.
With the escalating doom of climate change hovering over us, it is tempting to push nuclear horror to the back of our minds. To those of us who grew up in the 1950s, it was omnipresent. Nuclear war could not exist without nuclear power and on April 26, 1986 the world experienced a form of nuclear horror it will never forget.
TOKYO – According to peace and environmental justice watchdog NukeWatch, the Fukushima disaster has overtaken Chernobyl as the worst nuclear disaster in human history.
On November 9th, the French nuclear safety institute IRSN reported that a 'cloud' of radioactive pollution was hovering over much of Europe, with the speculation being that an 'accident' likely had occurred at a nuclear facility located either in Russia or in Kazakhstan. The Russian meteorological service now indirectly confirms this speculation by revealing that it is measuring levels of the radioactive isotope, ruthenium 106, at 1,000 times higher than normal in the Ural Mountains. [...]
Smartphone dystopia, altered algorithms and radiation-blocking boxers + this day in history w/the Outer Space Treaty and our song of the day by Nick Hakim on your Morning Monarchy for October 10, 2017.
A new examination of previously unreleased government documents, obtained by Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, has revealed that the U.S. government – in secret — sprayed, injected and fed radiation and other toxic material to “vulnerable” U.S. citizens, including pregnant women, during the Cold War. The tests are detailed in a recently released book by Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor, a sociologist based in St.
