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  Upcoming Inspection of Fukushima Unit 1 by dunrenard November 25, 2021 TEPCO announced that the next phase of containment inspections inside unit 1 will finally take place in early 2022. This next phase of inspections had been delayed due to technical challenges, concerns of radioactive dust releases, then due to the pandemic. Some of the explanatory materials provide new insight into the true situation inside unit 1. It has been speculated since 2011 that melted fuel (aka corium) flowed out of the pedestal of unit 1, across the containment floor, and burned through the thin connection edge of the containment structure. Diagrams included in this most recent report show that the entities tasked with decommissioning the damaged reactors think so too. Diagrams originally from NDF, the decommissioning authority, and IRID, the main agency tasked with research, show the same. The graphic below shows a significant pile of melted fuel in the pedestal and along the outer edge of the conta...

COURTESY OF WHITE FAMILY ARCHIVE & PATTY WHITE   If You Transplant a Human Head, Does Its Consciousness Follow? In her new book, Brandy Schillace recalls the unbelievable legacy of a Cold War era neurosurgeon’s mission to preserve the soul. BRANDY SCHILLACE SOMETIMES writes fiction, but her new book is not that. Schillace, a medical historian, promises that her Cold War-era tale of a surgeon, neuroscientist, and father of 10 obsessed with transplanting heads is true from start to finish. Schillace came across the story behind her book, Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher, somewhat serendipitously: One day, her friend, Cleveland neurologist Michael DeGeorgia, called her to his office. He quietly slid a battered shoebox toward her, inviting her to open it. Schillace obliged, half-worried it might contain a brain. She pulled out a notebook—perhaps from the ‘50s or ‘60s, she says—and started to leaf through it. “There’s all these strange little notes and stuff about mice and brains and brai...

  Globalization of Information, Digital Information, and Intellectual Property Law Harmonization One effect that seems clear is that globalization and the ease of transborder (or borderless) information flow is leading to worldwide similarities in intellectual property laws and rights. "The global period of intellectual property is marked by a weakening, at least in relation to property, of the principles of territoriality and sovereignty... intellectual property owners are finding that the intellectual property systems around the world are beginning to converge on the same substantive standards" (Drahos, 1997). Geller (1998) comments on the legal framework within which such harmonization is occurring and suggests a need for a coherent regime of international intellectual property law: "Digital media have unleashed deep-running changes in the international regime of intellectual property. The patchwork of nationstates can no longer respond, with its purely territorial la...

  Intellectual property rights In the Anglo-American legal framework, intellectual property rights generally are understood to consist in the categories of copyrights, patents, trademarks, industrial design, and trade secrets. The intellectual property rights most relevant to globalization of information issues are copyrights and patents. In this article intellectual property rights are discussed without reference to specific laws governing one or another of the categories. It will be seen, however, that frequent reference is made to copyright, as it is this area that has seen considerable activity in the domestic and international arenas. General understandings of the nature of copyright protection and a brief overview of the laws and agreements governing it are presented here. Copyright is an intellectual property right of the author of a work, giving the author certain rights in respect of the work. These rights vary among jurisdictions but generally include the right to pre...

  Figure 1 Change in birth-rate in months after the start of three recent epidemics, namely SARS, Zika, and Ebola (Source: The Economist; Institute for Family Studies). Scientists Ominously Warn COVID Is Reducing Fertility by aletho By Steve Watson | Summit News | February 3, 2021 Just when you thought the future couldn’t get much more dystopian, scientists have issued more stark warnings that COVID-19 is reducing fertility in men, and could contribute to depopulation of the planet. Scientists say that there is increasing evidence in patients of testicular damage and lower sperm counts and mobility, with initial studies revealing the presence of the virus in semen samples. Researchers at the Justus-Liebig-University in Germany. along with scientists from Allameh Tabataba’i University in Iran have reported  significant inflammation markers in samples of testicular tissue from 84 Covid-19 patients. They discovered that the inflammation and cellular stress were twice as severe in...

UK battery electric car strategy is ‘doomed to failure’ By Andrew Forster | Transport Xtra | June 1, 2020 The Government’s push to electrify road transport is based on naivety, the undue influence of the Committee on Climate Change, and a lack of engineering expertise within Government, an academic has said. Professor Michael Kelly, the former chief scientific adviser to the Department for Communities and Local Government, issues the warning in a paper published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation. He warns the Government’s ambitions for EVs and electric heating in buildings will end in damaging failure. “When the penny drops and the progress towards all-electric UK is halted, we will be reminded of Ozymandias [two poems that describe how even the greatest men and the empires they forge are impermanent, their legacies fated to decay into oblivion – Ed]. “The rest of the world can look at Britain and choose whether to laugh or weep.” On battery electric vehicles, he says: “Consider ...