Not in time for the holidays! We’ve had a few shirts made one at a time here and there and keep getting requests for them so we decided it was time to finally have some available for everyone else. Since this is our first merchandise offering we’re keeping it simple with a 2 color logo…
Open Research Forum – Scanning the Earth
On November 23rd, the Keio University Open Research Forum 2011 was held. The highlight was the talk by Prof Jun Murai (Keio SFC and Safecast Advisor) and Joi Ito (MIT Media Lab and Safecast Advisor). The talk featured Safecast and the ScanningTheEarth project, but also covered topics such as the direction of the Internet, impact…
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Berliner Gazette: Learning From Fukushima Report
Earlier this year I was lucky enough to be invited by The Berliner Gazette to participate in a symposium called “Learning from Fukushima” that they were producing in Berlin. Krystian Woznicki and his team organized a fantastic collection of speakers and many thought provoking discussions were had. In follow up they have produced a report…
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Safecasting Seabrook
Earlier this year this we had the pleasure of meeting some of the folks at C-10, which is one of the oldest citizen radiation monitoring groups in the world. Established in 1986, they work to address the health and safety issues related to the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant in New Hampshire and small sensor…
My present state (from KS in Fukushima)
Declaring that the Situation is Safe with No Clear Explanation Led to Anxiety The explosions at the nuclear power plant right after 3.11 were a great shock to all of my family. The earthquake affected phone connectivity, but my father who lives away from us due to his work managed to contact us by phone.…
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PBS story on Safecast
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLdOkKAeROg Earlier this year Miles O’Brien and Xeni Jardin joined us in Japan to learn a bit about Safecast and joined us on a trip through Fukushima – I blogged about the day when it happened. They were working on a piece for PBS which aired in the US tonight. The full segment is viewable…
bGeigie Hackerspace World Tour!
If you’ve checked out our maps recently you know that we have covered a lot of ground in Japan, but only scattered readings around the rest of the world. We think these global measurements are really important both to provide some context for the readings we’re taking in Japan and to build a baseline so…
A High School Student’s experience Safecasting
My name is Richard Zajac and I am a senior at a St. Louis, MO High School. I first learned about SafeCast when I began looking for information about the radiation levels in Japan in preparation for a visit filming a documentary. I soon discovered that SafeCast was the best source of this data, and…
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Safecast at Ars Electronica
Last month we were lucky enough to be invited to Linz, Austria to participate in the annual Ars Electronica festival. We were invited to talk about Safecast and show off some of the devices we’ve been using. Joi Ito, Pieter Franken and I attended and we displayed an iGeigie prototype and a working bGeigie. We…
Over 1,000,000
As of 3:27 PST today, there are 1,037,746 individual data points in the Safecast database. That’s over one million radiation readings we’ve taken with our bGeigie system since we started using it in April. This is an amazing milestone and the tireless volunteers who have been driving around with these devices deserve a world of…