'Meltdown': The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant moments after it was rocked by a second explosion today. Officials later admitted that fuel rods are 'highly likely' to be melting in three damaged reactors Fuel rods appear to be melting inside three over-heating reactors E... Read more...
[vodpod id=Video.5742188&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast Friday, killing at least 60 people as it swept away boats, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out o... Read more...
A volcano made famous in a James Bond movie continues its eruption on the island of Kyushu in Japan. Shimnoe-dake, part of a larger group of 20 volcanoes known as Kirishima, began its largest eruption in more than 50 years on Wednesday. Mount Shimnoe (or Shimnoe-dake for Shimnoe Peak) sprang... Read more...
Alchemy - derived from the Arabic word al-kimia (الكيمياء, ALA-LC: al-kīmiyā’), is both a philosophy and an ancient practice focused on the attempt to change base metals into gold, investigating the preparation of the "elixir of longevity", and achieving ultimate wisdom, involving th... Read more...
The good news: Consumption of high-fructose corn syrup is at a 20-year low. The bad news: The folks who make this insidious sweetener aim to rebrand it to boost sales. High-fructose corn syrup is cheaper than cane sugar and acts as a food preservative, too, so the food industry loves the stu... Read more...
China, whose $2.45 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves are the world’s largest, is turning bullish on Europe and Japan at the expense of the U.S. The nation has been buying “quite a lot” of European bonds, said Yu Yongding, a former adviser to the People’s Bank of China who was part... Read more...
Photographer Ernie Paniccioli explains: The Shirt was created by my Haitian best friend who is now sadly MIA. He knew 2010 was the date when all types of evil would be manifested both man made and by the forces of nature as in Earthquakes (China, Haiti, Chile) volcanoes (Iceland), flooding (Mem... Read more...
New Japan Prime Minister Warns Country May Default. Read more...
Was the destruction of the South Korean warship Cheonan a provocation? Can it be compared to the Gulf of Tonkin? RT contributor Wayne Madsen says that the sinking of the warship was really intended to convince Japan not to move US forces off Okinawa as well as divert the attention of Americans f... Read more...