Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Japan tried desperately to pump billions upon billions of yen into its economy during the 1990 to jump start an economy ailing after a terrible real estate bubble that popped at the end of the 1980s. Twenty years later, Japan has a…
The Oslo / Utoya suspected mass murderer Anders Behring Brievik published a very short time before he is believe to have killed over 80 adolescents an online pdf book titled 2083 – A European Declaration of Independence. The volume is a disjointed…
It's already doing so. Japan's Nuclear Safety Agency confirmed radioactive iodine in the sea near Fukushima at 3355 times the normal level. Our correspondent Mark Willacy joins me now from Tokyo. When we spoke an hour or two ago, Mark, Reuters ...
Defensive measures at the Fukushima Nuclear plant are called by Michio Kaku, a Japanese physicist teaching in the US, “like squirting a gun at a forest fire.” He would opt for the Russian solution, entomb the reactor in sand, boric acid and…
As dangerous levels of radiation leaked from four crippled nuclear reactors in Japan's earthquake-ravaged northeast Tuesday, Naoto Kan, the Prime Minister, stormed into an executive meeting of Tokyo Electric Power Co. and demanded to know, ...See a...
As the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant becomes darker by the day (see Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Update) and the risk of a major meltdown increases, people all over the world ask themselves how great is the danger of a major…
As the reactor failure at the Fukushima Plant in the aftermath of the Sendai earthquake increases public apprehension of nuclear technology, the future of this type of energy production might not be as bleak as it looks. There is one design that…
Honda took the unusual step of featuring some of its advertising faux-documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival. The living with robots flick featured below is super slick and slippery. Luminary after luminary and robot researcher after robot researcher is prompted to say…