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 …
Environmental Issues
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 …
Using plants to teach about allergy
I have talked before about how the amazing Nigel Clarke is aiming to turn beautiful Guernsey into a low allergen island, basing his work on Tom Ogren's OPALS Allergy plant scale. (For those of you who have not heard of Tom, he is the creator of the OPALS scale, a …
Brain antics
Have you read 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat'? If you haven't, and you are at all interested in the human brain and the extraordinary knots into which it can tie itself, then you certainly should. 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat' is probably the best known, …
Google’s Loon project – and further musings on electromagnetic sensitivity
One of the more Star Wars-y projects gathering pace in 2016 must be the Google Loon project – an attempt to encircle the southern hemisphere with a ring of high flying balloons. Using 4G, the balloons will beam internet access down to those living in remote regions below who …