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Thursday, April 07, 2011

CHERNOBYL 5: THE LEGACY

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Chernobyl aerial view into the core, smoke from the graphite fire and core melt down. The photo was taken from a helicopter on May 3, 19...

NUCLEAR NEWS: LOW LEVEL RADIATION

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Light projection onto the cooling tower of the nuclear power plant at Leibstadt. Photo: David Adair ‘We are clearly at a fork in the ro...
Wednesday, April 06, 2011

BROKEN ARROW: PALOMARES CLEAN -UP

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Eighty days after if fell into the ocean following the January 1966 midair collision between a nuclear-armed B-52G bomber and a KC-135 r...
Tuesday, April 05, 2011

ABNER STEIN RIP

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Sad to learn only today, via the obituary in The Independent that Abner Stein, the literary agent, died on the 12th January this year. ...

OUT AND ABOUT: MICHAEL CHAPMAN AND WILLIAM TYLER

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Thanks to my friend Nick, took notebook and camera to The Hobgoblin in Brighton for a rare chance to see Michael Chapman, legendary Briti...
Sunday, April 03, 2011

CHERNOBYL 4 : THE STALKERS

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Poster images from Dinca.org : Journal of Avant-Garde Film & Art A post in two halves. First a welcome chance to celebrate ...

CHERNOBYL 3: THE NATURAL HISTORY

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This book is a seminal work on the natural history of Chernobyl. This review was originally published in an issue of Tree News,   which I...

CHERNOBYL 2: THE HUMAN COST

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Children of Chernobyl - Oncology department {Source: Belarus Guide ) Really important piece in The Guardian yesterday by their long-ter...
Saturday, April 02, 2011

ANCIENT ART 4: HERZOG'S CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS / CAVE ART and PICASSO

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Back in June 2009, THE GENERALIST published the first of a series of posts on Ancient Art which concluded with the following: 'A f...

ANCIENT ART 3: CAVE ART / CHILDHOOD DISCOVERIES

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The  cave paintings have fascinated me since I was a kid and that excitement still stays with me. One aspect of the story that I later found...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

E. F. SCHUMACHER: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

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Source: BetterWorld "There could be no clearer example of the prevailing dictatorship of economics… That nuclear fission repres...
Monday, March 28, 2011

BEATNIK NEWS: ON THE ROAD MOVIE

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On The Road is an upcoming adventure drama movie directed by Walter Salles based on a script by Jose Rivera. It's a movie adaptation ...
Sunday, March 27, 2011

GERMANY: NUCLEAR PROTESTS

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The signs read “Switch Off” Around 210,000 demonstrators in Cologne, Berlin, Munich and Hamburg vented their anger at the governme...