The events of the past several days in Japan are in many ways beyond the scope of the mind to comprehend. Thousands of lives were swept away in an instant. I walked around the World Trade Center on September 12, 2001 and had a very hard time then being able to grasp the enormity of […]
This explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station is just one part of the nightmare that visited Japan Friday. There is an ongoing effort now to cool the reactor. Bloomberg reports here that the engineers are trying to avoid damage to the radioactive core of the reactor. Anti-nuclear group in Japan says emergency was […]
Someone in my class at Pace University in NYC a couple of years ago mentioned that she thought that earthquakes and other similar phenomenon were being influenced by climate change. I pooh-poohed the idea, saying that climate change was responsible for a lot of ills – with more to come – but that it couldn’t […]