Japan Quake: The "Radiation Check" Photo
I’ve been thinking around the power of this picture as I’ve been seeing it everywhere. Of course, who can’t relate to that sweet face and its innocent confusion? There’s more to it, though.The way the device is being pointed and the child’s hands are raised, there is also the suggestion...
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Fukushima Explosion
Even if the explosion occurred in the turbine wall and not the reactor vessel, this screen grab alone -- beyond the terror it raises in the pit of my stomach -- puts nukes back on trial.
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Feeling Japan’s Earthquake in Lower Manhattan
We relate to pictures, especially trauma, in term of analogy. (It helps us feel it and also wrap our head around it.) This is Japan this morning following their massive earthquake, but — like the scenes burned in our memories from those lower Manhattan apartment windows — it also...
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