The latest issue of the excellent ES-UK's newsletter reprints two pieces from the Guardian last year (15th June and 21st December) reporting on the spread of wifi throughout NHS hospitals and GP surgeries. The aim is excellent. More connectivity between hospital departments …
Electrosensitivity
Up for signing a few petitions?…..
With the advent of the internet, signing petitions has become a whole new way of life! But although not all of those that get launched are successful, there is no doubt that many are – and that it is a very cheap and relatively painless way of gathering support for causes that …
Worldwide furore over Australian investigative programme questioning the safety of wifi
A couple of weeks ago the Australian investigative programme, Catalyst, aired a half hour programme questioning the safety of wifi which unleashed a storm of controversy on Twitter and elsewhere. During the programme, reporter Dr Maryanne Demasi talked to a number of campaigners …
Are we reaching an electromagnetic awareness tipping point?….
Only a couple of months ago, in a report on an electrosensitivity conference (see the second half of the post), I wondered how long it would be before Gwyneth Paltrow become 'electromagnetically aware'. And goddam, only last week it happened! In an article headlined Are Cell …
What electronic media can do to your brain – and to the rest of you!
Our brains are the most adaptive organs in our bodies so constant repetition will change the way that they work. And that constant repetition applies not only to learning to play an instrument but to playing computer games. The difference is that each interaction we get from …