8 month ago
adamrg : Tracking the nukes - and evidently radioactive cats. Not that I haul around radioactive materials... but still creepy invasive.
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19 month ago
plasticbag : Panorama's programme on wifi appears to be scandalously scaremongerish... - If fifty percent of studies can find no evidence for a correlation at all, and radiation is one six-hundredth of reasonable than safety limits, then realistically it's not much of a threat is it.
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20 month ago
plasticbag : The Independent is quoting studies saying that WiFi is dangerous and could result in a whole bunch of cancers and stuff... - These studies are highly dubious and have been quite rigorously debunked in certain quarters. This seems to me to be scaremongering to find a story, combined with a little bit of anti-technology angst.
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26 month ago
plasticbag : British and American engineers have created a cloak that bends microwave radiation around an object... - Evidently it makes the object 'invisible' in the microwave part of the spectrum. The principles could be used to make something invisible at the visible level too, but the technology to implement such a thing is years away...
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43 month ago
deusx : Case Study: Accidental Leakage of Cesium-137 in Goiania Brazil in 1987 - 'Six year old Leide das Neves Ferreira "rubbed the powder on her body so that she glowed and sparkled."'
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