I hope you don’t like seafood, bceause it might not be around long. How does CO2 cause ocean acidity and why does that affect world seafood supplies?
Are we witnessing an oceanic fisheries collapse?
To watch a shocking video on Alaska’s fisheries, click here.
To take action on the environment, click here.
You might have seen the video making its way around the internet of a group of people putting 3 or 4 cell phones down on a table around a kernel or two of pop corn. Then, they place calls to the cell phones and within seconds, the pop corn pops!
I have even noticed some people sincerely alarmed that cell phones are capable of popping pop corn.
But before you decide not to take your hibachi grill to the next tailgate party in lieu of your cell phones, do a little test: Repeat the experiment you saw in the video, but substitute a thermometer or even your finger for the kernel or corn. Did the thermometer temperature rise? Did you finger get singed? Try it with 3,4 or even a dozen cell phones and see what happens.
The reason I am confident that you won’t yell in pain and flame me in the comments section is that the Federal Communications Commission will not allow private communications to exceed even a few watts. Look at your wireless router as an example. You might be able to find an internet hack to reprogram the firmware so that it will output (illegally) a little over 15 watts of transmission power, but not more.
Your cell phone uses significantly less power than your wireless router. If you don’t believe me, remove your cell phone battery and connect it to a flashlight bulb. Watch how long the bulb will operate before draining the battery. Also, feel the heat from the lightbulb - is it enough to cook popcorn?
Your microwave oven takes about 5 minutes to pop popcorn, but its power output is typically over 1,000 watts. So, although the frequencies of the microwave oven and your cell phone might be uncomfortably close, there is a huge difference in power output.
Nevertheless, the people who created that cell-phone hoax video might have been trying to make another point: the frequency of the electromagnetic waves that your cell phone emits are close to those of your microwave oven. Microwave ovens work on the principle of the oven’s electromagnetic waves vibrating water molecules at high frequency. This motion creates heat, and probably some damage to your food’s structure too. Water molecules are not the only ones that vibrate, but this depends on a complicated explanation of harmonic resonance which we will not discuss here.
Cell phones probably also create those vibrations in nearby matter: Your ear, skin, and possibly even your brain. Ionizing radiation has been known to alter DNA molecules, and thereby might cause mutations, some of which might develop into cancer.
You notice that we are using the words “possibly,” “might” and “probably” fairly often, and that is not for the purpose of getting high Google search engine listings for those words. It is due to the vast amount of contradictory research which has appeared in recent years on the subject. But, some pretty serious warnings from researchers that have more impressive titles than we do have been made.
Do you think it is better to err on the side of safety when your brain is in the test tube? (Don’t get insulted - I had a rather large test tube in mind.)
Since I consistently use 2000 - 3000 airtime minutes on my
unlimited minutes cell phone plan on a regular basis, I searched for a method to decrease the radiation exposure just to be safe.
I bought a bluetooth headset, but the headset also exposes one’s head and body to radiation, although at a different frequency, but that still did not leave me confident of my safety.
The best solution I could find was the Phone Lab’s Dock and Talk cell phone docking station. This device is great for home or office use because it connects your cell phone to a standard home or office telephone, allowing you to place your cell phone at a safe distance away while you talk over a wire-connected phone line. This also improves your ability to use features like free weekend and nighttime minutes, or to listen to calls over a speaker-phone:
Oh, and by the way, watch this…
