"Science Friday" coming live to Pasadena

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KPCC FM presents Science Friday LIVE in Pasadena at Caltech's Beckman Auditorium!

 

KPCC presents Science Friday LIVE: Science of the Silver Screen

Join host Science Friday host Ira Flatow and KPCC FM's own Sanden Totten as Science Friday comes to Caltech's Beckman Auditorium this summer for a thought-provoking evening of science news and entertainment in front of a live audience.

 

A veteran NPR science correspondent and award-winning journalist, Flatow will discuss current science topics with local experts and welcome audience questions. The entire show will be taped for a subsequent national broadcast.

 

Science Friday is a trusted source for science news with an entertaining flair. Started as a radio show by host and executive producer Ira Flatow, Science Friday now also produces award-winning digital videos and original Web content covering everything from octopus camouflage to cooking on Mars. He (and Flora Lichtman) call it “brain fun” for curious people. More

Host Ira Flatow loves the weird (and Flora)

Science Friday is broadcast locally in Los Angeles and Orange County on KPCC (89.3 FM), Fridays from 9:00-11:00 pm.
 

This will be a 90-minute program with no intermission. Purchase tickets here or by contacting the Box Office directly at (626) 395-4652, M-F, 9:00 am-4:00 pm. 

• Wednesday, Aug. 27, 7:30-9:00 pm
• Beckman Auditorium
• Caltech (California Institute of Technology) 
• 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena, CA 91125

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Living Large in 140 Square Feet Chris Tack made seven unloading trips to Goodwill before moving into the tiny home he and his wife Malissa designed and built.

Coffee’s Natural Creamer What’s that frothy stuff that sits on top of an espresso?

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Fukushima disaster: 3rd Anniversary (video)

Editors, Wisdom Quarterly; John Lear, host David Ruben (C2C); DemocracyNow.org

Fukushima disaster, Japan, March 11, 2011. 50 million people were almost evacuated, but it was easier to lie about the danger of three failed reactors instead (caravantomidnight.com)

 

Fukushima memorial (Dandemura/flickr)

According to retired airline captain John Lear -- (whose father invented the Lear Jet), a former CIA-pilot and current whistleblower, who appeared on Coast to Coast on March 1, 2014 -- the tsunami and subsequent Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster (Daini) was done on purpose.

 

Fukushima disaster, TEPCO (rt.com)

Japan had hired Israel to run this and other plants for it. But when Israel discovered that Japan was selling refined nuclear byproducts (weapons grade fissionable material, presumably), to punish Japan, Israel detonated a nuclear blast strategically to cause a massive tsunami, which led to the destruction of the plant and a massive nuclear fallout not only for the island but for the ocean and entire planet.

Kukushima in 2012 (uprisingradio.org)

(More and more one can see what drunken, racist, spouse-abusing Hollywood insider Mel Gibson was talking about when he yelled in a very candid and drunken rant about the state of Israel, a boon for the CIA in the Middle East, and its role in many of the world's conflicts).

"The tsunami that hit the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was caused by an atomic bomb set off by Israelis," Lear stated. Lear implicated Israel's Mossad (spy ring) in the John F. Kennedy assassination and attributed Hurricane Katrrina's destruction of New Orleans to HAARP guided by the U.S. military-industrial complex.

• John Lear: therealjohnlear.com, thelivingmoon.com, immaculatedeception.com

Former-Japanese PM talks about  how Fukushima meltdown was worse than Chernobyl

 

Former PM now opposes nuclear power

(DemocracyNow.org) Three years ago today (March 11) a massive earthquake triggered [by a nuclear detonation by Israel triggered] a devastating tsunami that struck Japan’s northeast coast. It resulted in an unprecedented nuclear crisis: a triple meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station. 

As Japan marks the anniversary with continued uncertainty around Fukushima’s long-term impact, Democracy Now was joined by Naota Kan, Japan’s Prime Minister at the time (2011). It’s rare that a sitting world leader changes his position completely, but that’s what Kan has done. 

 

What does radiation do to human body?

He explains how he came to oppose nuclear power while still in office, as he weighed Tokyo’s evacuation: "It’s impossible to totally prevent any kind of accident or disaster happening at the nuclear power plants," Kan says. "And so, the one way to prevent this from happening, to prevent the risk of having to evacuate such huge amounts of people, 50 million people, and for the purpose, for the benefit of the lives of our people, and even the economy of Japan, I came to change [my] position, that the only way to do this was to totally get rid of the nuclear power plants."

Chomsky: from Hiroshima to Fukushima, Vietnam to Fallujah, state power harms all

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• The Sochi Paralympics could be the political showdown
• How to Punish Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin

• Malaysia Airlines: What we know about the missing plane With no confirmation that the Boeing 777 had crashed, hundreds of distraught relatives still waited anxiously Monday for any news. 
• Affirmative action amendment has some Asian-Americans furious (Josie Huang with Leslie Berestein-Rojas) In the last month, a proposal to reinstate affirmative action at California’s public universities has inflamed some Asian-American groups unlike any recent issue. 
• See how SoCal recycles its raw sewage What may sound like the ugliest place in SoCal is actually very beautiful: Orange County's Groundwater Replenishment system, where toilet waste is turned into tap water.
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