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Japanese Tsunami: and its ghosts...

This is coming in August. It looks really rather splendid, although the extract is harrowing and terrifying... Read the extract from the London Review of Books. There's also a programme on BBC Radio 4 that is well worth watching.

Thinking about disasters...

..is something that a lot of us have been doing for the last week... So have other colleagues...  Simon Jones has posted the results of his thinking on the presentation below, which he has shared on Slideshare. Some really interesting and challenging questions... Thinking about disasters View more presentations from Simon Jones There was also a response from the Guardian's DATA BLOG, which had a comparison between Japan and Haiti as part of its DECADE OF DISASTERS piece. There is also a useful NUCLEAR POWER feature which shows the number of power plants that may now have an uncertain future, and face far more stringent safety checks and procedures. Useful mapping in both of these features... Responses to the disaster have spread far and wide. Fears over the nuclear radiation that is likely to spread from the Fukushima plant caused salt to sell out in China. Thanks also to Fred Martin for sending through this intriguing link. This is all 6 major channels at ...