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Information, Misinformation, Disinformation (or, “These aren’t the droids...
Whose job is it to make this stuff easy to understand? “YOU CAN’T ALWAYS FIND WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR…..” [Skip to Part 2] At Safecast we assumed from the start that our data should be accurate, easy...
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Tokyo Hackathon underway
We kicked off the first hackathon of 2013 today in Tokyo. In many ways today was a planning session for what the rest of the week will look like. We ran through the issues lists on several key...
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Citizen science and air quality monitoring in Tokyo
Levi with the Safecast Air monitor at the Shibuya crossing. Noa with the Safecast Air monitor at the Shibuya crossing. As you may have recently heard, the city of Beijing recently went off the scale...
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Tokyo Hackathon Roundup
Earlier this year we held what will hopefully be the first of many Safecast Hackathons. Since Safecast has such a fantastic team of volunteers working together, we thought it might be beneficial to...
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New Safecasters joined in Chichibu
We are happy to announce that local citizens from Chichibu in Saitama Prefecture have joined the Safecast volunteer network. (Mr. Tateno, Mr. Sekine and Mr. Noguchi from the left) Chichibu has...
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Safecast iOS App Updated
A massive update to the iOS app just went live in the app store. If you don’t have it already you can download it here. In addition to the full Safecast database, there are new map layers showing...
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Global Giving Matching Donations to Safecast! (again!)
Our friends at Global Giving did this last year and it was incredibly helpful for us, so they’ve decided to do it again. From March 1st to March 15th they will be matching donations 100%, and on March...
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GLC hits over a mIllion points!
Safecasters Joe Moross (far left) and Pieter Franken (far right), flanking GLC’s bGeigie team. Global Survey Corp., which goes by the initials “GLC,” has been mapping Japan’s roads since 2005. Their...
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Bike V2.0 and bGeigieNano
Jun Yamadera The start of the project for YR-Design was an extension of building bGiegies in Aizu Wakamatsu. By being in Aizu, having build a few bGeigies for SAFECAST and being exposed to the...
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Internews highlights the work of Safecast
Internews, an international non-profit formed in 1982 with a mission to empower local media worldwide, has been doing important and groundbreaking work in areas such as medial law and policy,...
View ArticleVice Japan Covers Recent bGeigie Build Event
Recently, we held a build your own bGeigie Nano workshop at our offices in Shibuya, Tokyo. We’d been talking to the great folks at Vice Japan for a while and they decided they wanted to join the...
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Radiation on California Beaches
[UPDATE 3/2014: The CDPH did their own study and confirmed our findings below, the report of their findings can be found here] In December this rather shocking video titled “Fukushima radiation hits...
View ArticleThe Fukushima “Underground Nuclear Explosions” Hoax
Lately we’ve seen a spate of Fukushima-related hoaxes which have gone viral, one of which claims that the Russian navy detected two underground atomic explosions at Fukushima on Dec 31, prompting the...
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Fukushima across the Pacific
This map is from a detailed simulation of the spread of Pacific ocean radiation, and shows the anticipated levels as of Aug. 2013. It looks scary, but the red color indicates that the levels of Cs137...
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15 Million Data Points and Democracy Now
Today we broke another data milestone when we crossed 15 million data points in the Safecast database. You may recall that it was only June 2013 when we broke 10 Million and October 2011 when first...
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Safecasting the IAEA
Day 1, Feb 16, 2014 Joe and I are in Vienna this week to attend an IAEA expert meeting which starts Monday. SAFECAST was invited to make a presentation about our methods and results, and I’ll be the...
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Safecast 3 Year Anniversary Event: Schedule
On March 15th and 16th we’ll be holding events to commemorate three years since the Tohoku Earthquake and resulting Tsunami and meltdowns at Fukushima Daichi which led to the founding of Safecast. The...
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Over 46 Countries!
Safecaster Lionel Bergeret has been keeping track of how Safecast is covering the globe, and produced this quick map to show where we’ve been, and where we still need to go. This map was generated...
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Fukushima: The Next Three Years Symposium
Above: Everything looked great on the huge screen, including Joi Ito Skyping in from MIT to say hello. The “FUKUSHIMA: THE NEXT THREE YEARS” symposium SAFECAST organized in commemoration of the third...
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