Thoughts on this week's class discussions.
It really is disappointing to hear that they still haven't cleaned up the radioactive mess in Fukushima. It is even more disappointing to hear how they are handling the aftermath. Their government seems to be trying to sweep things under the rug as quickly as possible and it's just irresponsible. I mean, they only decontaminated pieces of land, a lot of them with just "20-meter strips along roads, around houses and agricultural fields". Really? It really is living like you're in a prison with invisible walls. And you have 65ft to buffer you between radioactive land? What about the wind? What about the soil? How deep are they decontaminating and how are they ensuring that neighboring radioactive soil won't contaminate the nearby "decontaminated soil"? Also, this really sounds like living here would be a very REAL version of the game of hot lava trying to get around... and I don't know if there would really be anyone winning. And mothers are being "labeled as neurotic or irrational" by both their husbands and the government because they refuse to go back to this? I have no words for these people. I just don't know where to start on that one. It's appalling.
My impressions on "The Virtual Cell – Cell Biology" http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/tour/cell/cell.htm
This is a pretty cool interactive way to get to know the components of a cell and what they do. The way that it's set up, it kind of reminds me of the way graphics were toward the beginning of the internet. Makes me wonder when this was made. There's also a link to learn how to pronounce the parts as well in case you have trouble with that.
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