Chances are pretty good that if you're reading this, you're either (1) better at physics than I am, or (2) already on board with this, but let me just vent a little
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Ugh. I've been reading everything that you and Jon have shared about this in Google Reader, and now the ignorance I see about this is painful. And since it involves your old town, it has to make this crap all the more infuriating.
Also, I apologize if you've seen this already, 900 times, and I'm surprised I havent seen Jon share it yet but good ol' Randall Munroe also had a nice visual:
Gotta love XKCD. Reminds me of the third page of this handout. I love the cutsey little animated people, and the caption at the bottom of that page, too. Considering that I regularly send people out for modified barium swallow studies (a type of GI X-ray), I'm actually exposing people to more radiation than someone is getting living in Tokyo.
I'm thinking about going back this summer, some time before classes start. It'd be nice to help out a little and show some support. I emailed my Gram telling her that, and she flipped out. When you're 80 with a high school education, you're entitled to be that way. On the other hand, to hear my coworker (who supposedly has a M.S. degree) say that I'm going to get cancer by going to Japan.... le sigh.
Then again, I don't want to sound like, "oh, I've known all along that radiation works in such-and-such as way." I have my bachelor's in linguistics, for goodness sake. But what I'd love to see more of is people looking for information to clarify -- if the Japanese government is saying that a 30 km radius is safe and the American media is saying that California is gonna grow a toomah, wouldn't people want to figure out what's really going on...? Maybe?
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http://xkcd.com/radiation/
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I'm thinking about going back this summer, some time before classes start. It'd be nice to help out a little and show some support. I emailed my Gram telling her that, and she flipped out. When you're 80 with a high school education, you're entitled to be that way. On the other hand, to hear my coworker (who supposedly has a M.S. degree) say that I'm going to get cancer by going to Japan.... le sigh.
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