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164: Japan is about to release 1.3 million tons of Fukushima wastewater. Should we be concerned?

Deep Dive from The Japan Times

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The New Quest for the Holy Grail

i think it reflects how the mythology of arthur had reached a point of exhaustion where it could no longer be seen as vital, in this sort of cynical and disillusioned era of the 19 seventies. At the same time, there was a totally different development happening in other media, which was the emergence of a new quest to attain the grail. So while some people were examining the grail as this kind of dead artifact of the past, others were taking it more seriously than ever. But again, to do so by by finding it, not by understanding it. It's taken as a literal object to be obtained in the manner of the antiquarian search for ancient sites like troy

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