Japan plans to release slowly into the ocean a large amount of water containing an extremely low concentration of tritium.

Many countries are shouting about this. Is it really dangerous, or is that irrational exaggeration? I can't be certain, but I think it is irrational.

Japan claims that other nuclear power plants in the region release larger amounts of tritium annually than this water would. Indeed, Wikipedia's article on Tritium lists nuclear facilities that release much larger amounts of tritium, totaling almost 100 times what the Fukushima storage tanks would release — and the list is not complete.

It is clear that people are making an inordinate fuss about this tritium because it came from a major nuclear accident rather than from operating a reactor. However, the tritium itself is indistinguishable.

Nuclear reactors generate waste that is truly dangerous. That is the reason not to build more nuclear reactors — that and the danger that enemies will bomb them. In addition, they are so expensive and slow to build that they slow down decarbonization. Those are good reasons not to build more of them.

Likewise for the chemical industry — consider PFAs, which are toxic in very small amounts which are not radioactive and therefore don't decay at all.

Kerala has organized thousands of women to cook a little extra food and donate it to a plan that provides food for patients in hospitals.

There are so many volunteer cooks that each one is asked to do this only occasionally.

The person who receives the donation does not know the cook's religion or caste. By eating the food, they learn to reduce caste and religious prejudice in their own minds.

As America puts more thugs in schools, and fewer nurses, social workers and counselors, this giving the priority to imposing order rather than education. some experiment with restorative justice instead.

Restorative justice takes more time. Do we think that raising children well is worth that effort? Maybe we should have fewer children and put more time into raising each one.

Grey whales ask humans (in boats) to remove "lice" from their heads. When humans do this, the whales come back for more.

Whales need to have some of those symbionts, so there is some danger the whales might ask humans to remove too many. Or maybe the whales will naturally DTRT.

I like the idea of intentional cooperation between humans and whales.

How Putin's government adapted a system for finding and eliminating various kinds of illegal "content" to find and eliminate dissent as well.