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Submarine images have revealed that the Fukushima quake opened up cracks in the ocean floor as big as 6 feet wide. What effect this may have on future quakes in the area is unknown.

Coincidentally, shortly before the quake, researchers had taken photos of the same area of the seafloor where the crust would later rupture, leading to a tsunami that killed about 20,000 people. This meant that the seabed changes could be documented.

On the MSNBC website, Stephanie Pappas quotes seismologist Takeshi Tsuji as saying that his team of researchers saw open fissures in "many places," but how these cracks may effect future earthquakes along the same fault lines is unknown.
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I like to read several books at a time–usually a "literary" novel, a mystery novel (for times when I’m too tired to read the literary novel) and a nonfiction book. In my search for literature, I’ve noticed (especially when we lived in New York) how a certain book becomes–for no logical reason I’ve been able to discern–the "flavor of the month." Extolled as one of the "best novels ever written," it turns up in reviews, in newspaper and magazine articles and seems to be on everyone’s lips (in big cities, anyway), whether they’ve read it or not. People seem to think that if they read enough reviews, they can discuss the book (and sometimes I catch them at this).
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This story, presented here by Puerto Rican investigator J. J. Martin, has never been debunked. Like Whitley Strieber, this witness received warning of earth changes to come in 1988, but there was no date given. It’s an interesting case and the interview here is quite fascinating. (The clip of the aliens that appears in the video was not taken by the witness, but the UFO photos were.)
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In the past, we’ve warned men that riding a bike can ruin your sex life. Now it turns out this is true for women too: Spending time on a bicycle seat, which has been linked to erectile dysfunction in men, may also be a hazard to a woman’s sexual health. With more and more women taking spin classes, we may be becoming a sexless society.

In the April 3rd edition of the New York Times, Anahad O’Connor reports that bike seats are designed in such a way that body weight typically rests on the nose of the seat, which compresses nerves and blood vessels in the genital area. A 2006 study found that while this has less of an effect on women, the same risk is still there.
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