Day: April 10, 2012

  • We all glow down here: Study shows just how much radiation has covered the world since Fukushima

    We all glow down here: Study shows just how much radiation has covered the world since Fukushima

    This photo has been making the rounds on Facebook and other social networking sites over the past several weeks.. We’d be remiss not to address it on Earth Informer.

    The image is a model of that appeared in the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity *something you don’t find on many newstands* shows just how vast and widespread the radiation after the Fukushima disaster has been. The world covered with red and blue.. Shades of red indicate particles at the bottom layer, blue is the upper layer. And all the world is a sea of those two hazy shades of radiation.

    More here on the science behind it.
    And if you’re interested in reading more real research, here is the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity.

    Meanwhile….stay in.

  • Another day, another autism study

    Another day, another autism study

    Autism rates are high. So are obesity rates. And tonight, a study that somehow tries to link both together is getting a lot of press and air time..  More on that study here if you wish to grin and bear it..
    The basic gist, if you couldn’t get the relation, is that moms are really obese before they get pregnant.. and then after …jeeezsh.. that recommended weight gain puts them in a tip the scales category. Of course, no matter those skinny moms and dads in skinny jeans that ended up with an autistic baby.. Indeed, indeed.. 
    So tonight, if you’re a big fat pregnant woman who lives near a freeway and has a husband and father-to-be who is over the age of 35 and works with computers, your child may be autistic. But the vaccine won’t do it. No worry.
    It’s certainly interesting. All these years and we still can’t truly pinpoint what cases Alzheimer’s or autism. All the brain power going towards finding the causes.. all that brainpower lost on the mysteries of the brain. 
    More than $1billion has been spent over the past decade to try to find out the reason that children have autism. Hopefully the $1billion will pay off over the next decade. 
    Until then lose weight, move into the country, and quit the computer job. And get younger, too.