I am certainly not against mobile phones as such – they have delivered massive benefits to millions of people worldwide but – I am definitely against their indiscriminate, 24/7 use. (And, by the way, I am very keen for all those clever scientists to find a way of transmitting the …
Electrosensitivity
More freefrom holidays…
Just as I was finishing the blog below on Cloona, a newsletter popped into my in-box from Village Ways, the wonderful eco-holiday company I went walking with in the foothills of the Himalayas way back in 2007. (I have wanted to go back ever since but a combination of ES …
Coping – and benchmarking…
I have a friend, now in her '80s, who has had MS (multiple sclerosis) for nearly 50 years. She does not have sufficient muscular strength to lift her feet onto the feet rests of her wheel chair; she does not have the muscular staying power (she can exert a little pressure for a …
And we think we’ve got problems….
I thought, when we put Caleigh (the Gluten Freek)'s story up on the sites, that as short dietary straws go, she had drawn one of the shortest. (Caleigh has suffered from Crohn's disease since she was a teenager and five years ago, joined a mercifully select band of only 600 …
Apple App Store bans app that measures cellular radiation emitted by mobile phones – and the Smart Android watch
Last summer an Israeli start up company, Tawkon secured $1.5 million seed capital to create mobile apps able to measure the cellular radiation emitted by your phone. Tawkon’s apps will work for Android phones, BlackBerry handsets and the iOS platform but not for iPhones as …