TONIGHT: As Japan melts in the distance, come listen to Dr. Alexey Yablokov—Chernobyl expert and Boris Yeltsin’s former environmental advisor—separate fact from hysterical fiction concerning the health and environmental effects of being dosed with low radioactive contaminants.
Yablokov will discuss nuclear meltdowns from Chernobyl to Japan, even touching on nuclear time-bombs risks here at home—what up, Hanford! Unless you live in a solitary Unabomber shack, you know why this is relevant and scary, but at least you’ll be able to justify your new hazmat winter coat and iodine suppositories with some science. (University of Washington, Kane Hall, reception at 6:00 p.m., lecture at 7:00 p.m., $10-15 here.)
Hey, it’s not like they already measured increased radiation on the UW campus from Japan’s nuclear disasters …
Oh. wait …