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Monday, February 28, 2011
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Saturday, February 26, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Can Cell Phones Really Alter The Way You Think?
According to a study from the National Institutes of Health, cell phones may alter your brain activity, and it could be potentially damaging in the long term.
Researchers have found that less than an hour of cellphone use can cause brain activity to speed up in the area that is closest to the antenna.
The researchers, led by Dr. Nora D. Volkow, have not figured out what this means yet, and ask the public to not jump to any conclusions. The study was published Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
“The study is important because it documents that the human brain is sensitive to the electromagnetic radiation that is emitted by cellphones,” Dr. Volkow said. “It also highlights the importance of doing studies to address the question of whether there are — or are not — long-lasting consequences of repeated stimulation, of getting exposed over five, 10 or 15 years.”
Companies like AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon (NYSE: VZ) and Spring (NYSE:S) will be very interested in seeing what Dr. Volkow and her team conclude from these findings. There is certain to have a debate about whether cellphones are safe or hazardous to your health. There have been a few studies of heavy usage and rare brain tumors, but these cases are few and far between.
“Unfortunately this particular study does not enlighten us in terms of whether this is detrimental or if it could even be beneficial,” Dr. Volkow said. “It just tells us that even though these are weak signals, the human brain is activated by them.”
Most major medical groups, including the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute and the Food and Drug Administration, have proclaimed cell phones safe to use and not risky to your long term health, but some doctors have proclaimed caution in these findings.
“The peer-reviewed scientific evidence has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices, within the limits established by the F.C.C., do not pose a public health risk or cause any adverse health effects,” said John Walls, vice president of public affairs for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. Walls said that the groups “have concurred that wireless devices are not a public health risk.”
In an editorial accompanying the Journal article, Henry C. Lai continued to raise concerns about the safety of cellphones.
“The bottom line is that it adds to the concern that cellphone use could be a health hazard,” said Dr. Lai. “Everybody is worried about brain cancer, and the jury is still out on that question. There are actually quite a lot of studies showing cellphone radiation associated with other events, like sleep disturbances. But people have not been paying a lot of attention to these other types of studies.”
Dr. Volkow said, “It does not in any way preclude or decrease my cellphone utilization,” she said.
What do you think? Are cellphones potentially dangerous to your health?
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
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Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Kurt Cobain’s Lesson: Be Hated for What You Are
I never thought I’d be taking a lesson from Kurt Cobain. After all, the poor man committed suicide at age 27.
But I noticed that today, which would have been Cobain’s forty-fourth birthday, his quote, “I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not” was trending all over Twitter.
While Cobain was loved for who he was—musical genius, rock God—I have lately felt hated for who I am. It’s easy today, what with social media, blogs, and the Internet making it so easy for the anonymous hoards to blast you—for the multitudes to throw the kinds of stones that no one in real life except maybe your best friend or mother would dare to do.
Case in point, my first book, Can’t Think Straight: A Memoir of Mixed Up Love was published in January. The book dealt with my discovery that my fiance, and boyfriend of 10 years, was leading a double life: he had long been having affairs with men behind my back.
I was lucky enough to garner decent press for the book. One article about my book appeared on AOL’s home page. Another article was on Comcast’s home page. I was on The Today Show and The Joy Behar Show. I’m quite proud of these achievements.
But the haters!
I was accused of being “dumb” by a blogger in Dallas who asserted that, because my fiance and I hadn’t quite gotten around yet to making our union legal, I should have somehow known he was two timing with men.
A critic from the Library Journal called me a slut because, after the break, as a single woman dating in New York City for the first time in a decade, I go a little wild. The women on Goodreads.com seem to almost uniformly despise me. (Most dispiriting of all, the majority of the hate came from women.)
Even a neighbor in my building got into the act, giving me a one star review on Amazon primarily, it seems, because I used the building’s listserv to promote my book—which I did one time, not repeatedly, as the anonymous neighbor claims.
Lately, I’ve been thinking how I should have toned down the book. Instead of being honest and admitting that this betrayal made me a bit crazy, and that I reacted by drinking a bit too much, dating a bit too much, and generally trying to put a balm on my anger, confusion, loneliness and hurt in unhealthy ways, I should have lied and said I stayed home, practiced yoga, and meditated. More people would have bought that book. More people would have understood. More people would haveliked me.
But I’d rather be hated for what I am than loved for what I’m not.
Thank you, Kurt Cobain. Everyone being hated on today thanks you.
Friday, February 18, 2011
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