As I mentioned on episode #22, Rod Adams (@atomicrod) is a self-professed nuclear energy “obsessive” since 1981. He writes at the Atomic Insights blog and has produced the…
Reading Zite on my iPad tonight and saw this headline: Drilled down into the story to discover the young guy in the photo is actually NOT a victim…
John Pilger has written a terrific article to commemorate the anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (6 August, 1945). I was talking about Hiroshima…
I don’t believe this Mobiro is really playing the violin. It’s fingers do seem to be moving but can you hear the vibrato?? I don’t see the fingers…
In this video from The Real News, Gore Vidal makes the suggestion I’ve heard a number of times that the USA knew Japan was defeated and had surrendered…
Canned coffee vending machines Originally uploaded by seanbonner Sean Bonner is posting great photos from Japan including this one of a canned coffee vending machine. Mmmmm. And I…
Today my guests are Andrew and Kevin – an American and a Brit living in Japan – to talk about some current conspiracy theories, including hundreds of “concentration…
I’m scanning the headlines this morning and see this one on News.com.au: “Priest claims praying ‘pointless’“. You just know that’s going to get my attention, right? I thought…
For a while I’ve been thinking about putting together a ‘keiretsu‘ of Aussie online startups. Technically, a real keiretsu in Japan is “a set of companies with interlocking…
Every year, the editors of Harvard Business Review find twenty essays on provocative and important new ideas. Here is my review of the 2007 list. They are: 1.…