{"id":1653,"date":"2011-03-26T10:43:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T14:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www3.arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2011-03-22T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-22T14:56:36","slug":"nuclear-boy-has-a-stomachache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2011\/03\/26\/nuclear-boy-has-a-stomachache\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Boy has a stomachache"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no question about it: the earthquake in Japan was one of tremendous force and tragedy in our world. \u00c2\u00a0I cannot say that I have ever heard of an 8.9 or 9.0 earthquake, but judging from how the Richter scale only goes up to 9, I can deduce that Mother Nature is truly a scary force to be dealt with, indeed. \u00c2\u00a0Not only that, it brings up the question of the subsequent human ramifications. \u00c2\u00a0How does this affect some of the man-made things in our world? \u00c2\u00a0In this case, it&#8217;s about the nuclear power plants and the effects that the quake wrought on them, thereby releasing radiation into the air. \u00c2\u00a0Many people are at risk of radiation poisoning, which is a very scary thing.<\/p>\n<p>But then, how does one explain events like this to children? \u00c2\u00a0Some children who are old enough may understand but others who are too young probably wouldn&#8217;t know what radiation was or why it is harmful. \u00c2\u00a0Cue this video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gXPN4dfBAGU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese explain the consequences of the earthquake to children and why the nuclear power plant (aka Nuclear Boy) could be bad for humans. \u00c2\u00a0In short, it talks about how Nuclear Boy has a stomachache and that his poop is so stinky, no one wants to be near it. \u00c2\u00a0It goes on to discuss how we would deal with Nuclear Boy and his stinkiness should he actually have to use the bathroom instead of merely farting. \u00c2\u00a0It is really cute and quite fascinating how the Japanese would use a cartoon to depict this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just another way of demonstrating how art pervades our world and is a perfect partner with just about every subject out there (e.g. science, technology, food, clothing, etc).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no question about it: the earthquake in Japan was one of tremendous force and tragedy in our world. \u00c2\u00a0I cannot say that I have ever heard of an 8.9 or 9.0 earthquake, but judging from how the Richter scale only goes up to 9, I can deduce that Mother Nature is truly a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}