A bunch of interesting stories today:
“Water Leaks on the Fukushima Plant Could Contaminate Entire Pacific Ocean.”
The Faces of Project Y: the security badges for those working on the Manhattan Project.
And in further news from the Orwellian security state: “Apple has patented a piece of technology which would allow government and police to block transmission of information, including video and photographs, from any public gathering or venue they deem ‘sensitive,’ and ‘protected from externalities.'”
The Atlantic has amazing time-lapse satellite images showing the massive changes to the human-built world. An archive of disaster.
And from The Chronicle of Higher Education: “The National Institutes of Health announced on Wednesday that it had reached an agreement to give the family of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman who died of cervical cancer in 1951, some control over researchers’ access to the genomic data of cells derived from her tumor, according to The Wall Street Journal.”
The Hyperarchival Parallax 