After personally going to Japan to check the levels of radioactivity with a group of concerned citizens, the Japanese government revised their figures in accordance with their findings and now Sean Bonner tells Buzzsaw how to check the levels locally and independently, plus the local levels in the states. GUEST BIO: Sean Bonner is a writer, blogger and activist & the co-founder and global director of Safecast, an organization pioneering citizen science Co-founder of the LA hacker collective Crash Space, designed an Die Antwoord album and helped start the art gallery sixspace. Though his homepage states "It's rather difficult to explain what Sean Bonner does exactly. It's kind of a secret in fact. A mystery actually. To be honest, we don't like to talk about it much." ADD'L LINKS: twitter.com/seanbonner www.seanbonner.com blog.safecast.org/about/ Buuzsaw shorts playlist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=irghDJNZ0ss&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGe43WJvnvzBPLaJrRVSUmxb Buzzsaw full length interviews and episodes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB-wNxAiDYM&list=PLjk3H0GXhhGc7NOFr74KbOPBCXrXT8nlf&index=1 www.facebook.com/pages/Buzzsaw/315063551949301 www.facebook.com/thelip.tv EPISODE BREAKDOWN: 00:01 Welcoming Sean Bonner to Buzzsaw. 01:27 SAFECAST and Fukushima. 04:35 Discrepancies in radioactivity reporting and changing the model of reading. 08:21 "Citizen Science." 09:32 Looking at the equipment. 12:58 The information shift that has happened in Japan. 13:38 Mapping radioactivity in the US and San Onofre. 17:50 Threats to the freedom of the internet and independent infrastructures.

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