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Abenomics: two percent inflation and consuming possibly tainted Fukushima rice

Abenomics: two percent inflation and consuming possibly tainted Fukushima rice

  The Bank of Japan, the country’s central bank governed by Haruhiko Kuroda, said the economy is showing signs of recovery after three months of inflationary policies, according to a New York Times article. The statement released Thursday was the first time the central bank has used the word “recovery” since the March 2011 quake/tsunami/nuclear […]

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Chernobyl, 25 Years Ago on April 26, 1986 (Part 1)

Chernobyl, 25 Years Ago on April 26, 1986 (Part 1)

Twenty five years separates us from the worst nuclear disaster in the history of mankind. I recently wrote about the 50th anniversary of human spaceflight and realized that a mere 25 years also separated April 1986 from Gagarin’s first human spaceflight in April 1961. On an early Saturday morning in April of 1986 at 1:23 […]

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