Category Archives: Science

Fukushima im Film

Deutsche Welle: Doris Dörrie zu Fukushima: “Es hat sich überhaupt nichts geändert”.

“Ihren neuen Film “Grüße aus Fukushima” drehte die Regisseurin in Japan – nur wenige Kilometer von dem Reaktor entfernt. Im Interview spricht Doris Dörrie über ihre Erlebnisse am Filmset und über Verlust und Neuanfang.”

Ausschnitte aus dem Film gibt es hier zu sehen:

Grüße aus Fukushima.

“Vor fünf Jahren verwüsteten ein Erdbeben und ein Tsunami das Atomkraftwerk in Fukushima. Die Folge: ein Super-GAU. Regisseurin Doris Dörrie hat der Katastrophe ein filmisches Denkmal gesetzt.”

Und der Filmtrailer bei YouTube.

Am 14. Januar 2016 war die Regisseurin Doris Dörrie zu Gast bei Mensch Otto (Direktlink zur mp3-Datei des Podcasts, ca. 38 MB).

Fukushima – five years on

Strangely, there don’t seem to be any postings on the Fukushima nuclear disaster on my weblog. It happened five years and three days ago.

Instead of accumulating links here myself I’m linking to MetaFilter yet again, where user Fizz has posted a lot of links to great articles worth reading:

MetaFilter: “Of course, there’s still a nuclear site with three damaged reactors.“

Behind the scenes

I posted about OK Go‘s recent video Upside Down & Inside Out a few weeks ago, but today I re-read the MetaFilter thread and discovered the Upside Down & Inside Out FAQ and credits for the video. I like their explanation of weightlessness on a parabolic flight, which is better than what one finds in most textbooks.

I also enjoyed OK Go Singer Passes Out During Music Video Shoot. See The Footage on Guff even though the title is a bit over the top. Scroll all the way down for the eight-minute video of the last day of shooting.

Scientists

Nautil.us on March 3, 2016: My Family, My Science. “One girl’s scientific coming of age.” By Hope Jahren.

“My laboratory is a place where the lights are always on. My laboratory has no windows, but it needs none. It is self-contained. It is its own world. My lab is both private and familiar, populated by a small number of people who know one another well. My lab is the place where I put my brain out on my fingers and I do things. My lab is a place where I move. I stand, walk, sit, fetch, carry, climb, and crawl. My lab is a place where it’s just as well that I can’t sleep, because there are so many things to do in the world besides that.”