“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 to understand, informative, well-visualized, and easily accessible. In many respects this simply reflects “best practices” in information design, as well as a vision of social responsibility in which openness…
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Information, Misinformation, Disinformation (or, "These aren't the droids you're looking for.") Part 2
GOVERNMENT MONITORING POSTS [Part 1 here] In recent months there has been a fair amount of controversy concerning the accuracy of the radiation monitoring posts the government has installed all over Fukushima prefecture, and in some neighboring prefectures as well. We wrote about it back in July, 2012: TEPCO cheating on radiation levels by using…
Building bGeigies in Aizu
Hikone 2012-12-19 From One Spike to 45 Blinking LED’s. From one Spike on a Software Scope in a Brazil Bar in Tokyo to 45 Blinking LEDs, the Sound of Fake Digital Crickets in a Science Room in Aizu. (A short summery of part of the flow of the radiation recorded from Cesium in Japan to…
Safecast Hackathon – January 13-18, 2013
At Safecast, we have been talking about our distributed team(s) and how beneficial it is when we can get people in the same room to actually hack on things. Not just bring each other up to date on what we’ve been working on, but actually get our hands dirty and build stuff. And then when…
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Safecast Short Film in Focus Forward Films semifinals
http://vimeo.com/51823402 Tokyo based filmmaker Adrian Storey made this fantastic 3 minute documentary about Safecast for the Focus Forward Films competition and it’s made it to the semifinals! We’re really excited because not only is Adrian is an all around awesome dude, but he made an excellent film that hopefully many people will be able to…
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Global Giving Matching Donations to Safecast!
If you’ve been considering chipping in a few dollars to help our efforts at Safecast, now is an excellent time to do that as Global Giving is running a campaign where they are matching up to $100,000 in donations to selected Japan-related projects. So if you want to donated $10, Global Giving will kick in…
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Safecast iOS App
We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of the Safecast iOS app available in the App Store now. Last year we reached out to Nick Dolezal, creator of the most amazing GeigerBot, with some questions and ideas about his app. It didn’t take long for us to realize he would be a fantastic addition to…
Report from Abiko: "Eat, not eat. Go, not go. Escape, not escape. Do, not do. Stop, not stop. Decide for yourself"
Dirk Rösler, one of the ‘early’ Safecasters, found he was living in what is now known as the “Kashiwa Hotspot” in Chiba Prefecture, when Safecast provided him with a geiger counter in May 2011. Here is his report with his personal observations on what happened since. ———- Readings as of October 2012 in the common…
Safecast at RADIEX 2012 report
Radiex 2012 was a major trade show for products and services related to radiation monitoring, decontamination, and remediation, and was held at the Science Museum in Kitanomaru Koen in Tokyo from Sept 24-26 this year. When Dan Sythe, CEO of International Medcom, told us that he planned to attend and invited us to share his…
Safecasting Holland by Air, Sea and Land
This summer I returned back to Holland for a summer break. As I had not had a chance to Safecast Holland yet (all bGeigies where in heavy rotation here in Japan!), I decided to make a special version of the bGeigie, so I could easily carry it on board of an airplane, and measure radiation…
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