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Last week's tsunami continue to flood the multimedia landscape: Facebook, Twitter, blogs and news outlets consume our attention. Today's technology is changing the way we learn news.
Nothing is more powerful than human tragedy to charter our own love expansion course.
For those of you who do not know, every Bar or Bat Mitzvah child is obligated to undertake a project to do Tikkun Olam, Hebrew for "repairing the world."
With pitiful investments in renewable energy, and the likelihood of renewed vigorous resistance to the development of nuclear power what do we face in life without oil?
An ordinary machine stops generating heat when it is shut off. Leave it alone, and it will cool down. A reactor, on the other hand, keeps making heat. Lots of heat. Enough heat to melt itself.
Profit-making corporations have every incentive to underestimate the probabilities of potential disasters and lowball the likely externalized harms. This is why it's necessary to have such things as government regulators.
On March 15, 2011, as a Japanese-American Member of Congress and Chairman Emeritus of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, I introduced the following House resolution.
"'Too soon' will now be exactly three months, five days from the time of said natural disaster," said Humor Czar Morty Woodger.
What is just happening in Japan and what is on the verge of happening in Pennsylvania have a deep connection.
At 5 p.m. Monday I finally board a plane to leave Japan. It is full. As our wheels leave the ground, several people clap. But not me. I am sad. Will I come back soon? And what will I come back to?
In our society of high life-expectancy, death usually comes unseen behind the closed doors of nursing homes, or the curtains of a hospital room. We have gained, therefore, the luxury of deluding ourselves that we are here forever
Earthquakes, especially catastrophic ones, shake our confidence in the very ground we stand on and confront us with the groundlessness of our existence, wherein no certainty, safety, or continuity of being can be assured.
As America expresses its deepest sympathies to the people of Japan for the painful tragedy that has befallen that great nation, it is still hard to grasp the enormity of the disaster.
Japan is so adamant about preparation for disaster that sometimes it seems a bit over the top. But when disaster strikes, it becomes all too apparent that you cannot over prepare.
Nothing bright and witty today. Nothing sharp and clever. Nothing with a sarcastic edge, or a skeptical bite. No political points whatsoever. Just sadness -- deep, deep sadness.
