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3G Waves Causes Headaches, Sharpens Memory
jonknee writes "MobileTracker noted that an interesting study on 3G cellular networks has been released out of Amsterdam. The findings were that exposure to 3G waves can cause headaches and nausea (conventional cellular service doesn't have these effects). It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times (conventional cellular networks have the same effect)!"
I think this is just WCDMA/UMTS. I'm wondering what the impact of CDMA2000 1xEVDO and 1xEVDV would have, if any (since those may be the primary 3G systems in the US).
With all that weed smoked in Amsterdam, they can do with all the brain sharpening they can get!
:-)
Maybe this will balance them out a bit
Next time I have to take a test, I'll carry an old motorola briefcase phone with me and Make sure it is sending and recieving.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Are they sure it's not the hash?
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Considering my failure to achieve first post, the nearest 3G transmitter must be miles away.
could be the bodies reaction to brain damage.
love is just extroverted narcissism
It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times
Screw studying for that test, I'm going to talk to my friends on my cell phone all night!
Here's the same story on yahoo.
The article says that no scientific evidence exists for a link between 2G signals and brain tumours. But, what about 3G signals? If they can cause headache and nausea, I think you can reasonably expect it to have other effects such as malignant tumours. It's time to take a step back and study 3G more before massive deployment. There is no pressing need to surf porn or whatever faster on your cellphone.
It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times (conventional cellular networks have the same effect)!"
Now if I could only remember I left my cell phone...
Trolling is a art,
It looks like the idea that using a cell phone is detrimental to driving performance is faulty. Since Reaction times are dramatically improved, I expect that within a few years you will be required to use a cell phone while driving.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
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3G Waves Causes Headaches, Sharpens Memory
3G Waves Cause Headaches, Sharpen Memory
Not so tough, is it?
Ummm... the link's to a Wired article that doesn't say any more about the study than the Slashdot story does. Is the actual study available anywhere?
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Obviously the writer of this article has never dealt with Verizon (or many other telecomm companies).
"Windows are for cheaters" - Bruce Springsteen
Can you hear me now?
Hey shut up! I f*%king heard you the first time!
Is yet another symptom of "3g" the munchies?
Welcome our Cellular Network Enhanced Overlords.
*ahem*
On a serious note, were the results of this study
pusblished in any credible medical journal?
Cell phone *sharpens* the senses? Seems just a little crazy to me.
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How can one be able to recall anything from memory when you're nauseous and perhaps vomiting? Maybe you can spell out the answer with your heaves...
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Everytime I talk to them on my cellphone I get headaches too.
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most of us won't be able to afford it.
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To be honest, my head hurts when I am on my cell phone. In fact, I can "feel" something when I put it near my head. Not sure if it is bad for me, but it does hurt a bit.
"subjects had better memory and reaction times"
Oh great. Does that mean all those soccer moms driving around in their Ticonderoga Class SUVs chatting away on the phone will get into accidents quicker now? Yay! "I'm just out shopping. I've got a splitting headache though. Oh look, I just ran over a small car. Quick! Get out of here!" Egads...
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts...for support rather than illumination." - Andrew Lang
http://www.tno.nl/nieuws/archief/documenten/tno_fe l_report_03148mu.pdf
TNO is the Dutch equivalent of the German TUV if I'm not mistaken. A very respected institute in the Netherlands
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It has nothing to do with 2G over 3G as a technology in itself. It has to do with power levels and high frequencies. Meanining a 2400bps chanell at 30Ghz and an EIRP of 60dbw will mess you up pretty bad while an 11Mbps 802.11 17dbm at 2.4Mhz would not hurt you.
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...the phone makes you puke, but you're a lot more likely to be able to remember you are wearing your best shoes and get your feet out of the way of your projectile vomiting before it splatters said shoes.
Why not test the output from a handset? The power levels used in cell phones aren't enough to cause real problems, and thus make for a boring study, that's why.
I recommend the researchers just stick to the study of extra strength placebos.
--Mike--
Sounds like the movie Phenomenon (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117333/) to me... great powers and whatnot, but then you only get laid once and die of a brain tumor... no thanks.
I can just see it now, all the mobile companies start selling phones that claim to make you smarter in a particular area. The new Nokia 3666 Math Whiz!
Headaches and nausea combined with better memory and reaction times.... finally I can remember just how quickly I'm throwing up!
The 4G waves will enhance previous brainwave mutations by at least 40%, although AMD and Intel are planning to release a similar product by Q4. :) ha ha
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Let's see...
The study, the first of its kind, tested the impact of radiation from base stations used for the current mobile telephone network...
That's exactly what I do everyday...I hang around cell phone towers everyday to sharpen my memory and response times!
Riiiigghht
So it improves memory and reaction times...
Why can't it make drivers remember to use their freakin' turn signals?
Why is the higher bandwidth needed for voice communication, which is when you are holding the device to the side of your head? Shouldn't the phone be smart enough to fall back on some slower connectivity for voice, and only use the higher speed network for data access? At least you aren't holding the thing next to your brain when you are surfing the web or using it for PDA / laptop connectivity, which is when the bandwidth is needed.
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Better known as 318230.
...but I can't remember why?
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Explain my grandmother's case then. She talks on her cell all the time and still can't remember half the day. :-P
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Have they done tests to see what other extra benefits they may have? Maybe I can disregard all of that penis enlargement spam.
It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times (conventional cellular networks have the same effect)!"
Thank you! now I have proof that I am not crazy because I have 6 cellphones duct-taped to my head.
now I need to tape the article to my chest...
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I'd think that would help reaction times when we're actually focusing on a single task.
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Am I the only only that is a bit skeptical of this report? There's never been any conclusive evidence to show that cell phones have an effect on the users brain. I just can't see how this idea would be possible... Maybe if I start using a 3G phone I'll wise up to the theory.
WURD!!
Often times I find myself using my phone to..@#$@#$NO CARRIER
...if they used the plastic candy filled phones from the drug stores as a kind of technological placebo. I can remember feeling pretty nauseous on some Halloweens where I ate a little too much candy.
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I've known of this effect for some time. That's why I've rigged up a bunch of microwave oven magnetrons in my office for mood lighting.
I code more effectively, and my gaming skillz have massively improved. The only drawback is that I now give off a strong odor of singed hair, and my fingertips and toes have become somewhat crispy.
My boss must have their cell phone number too...
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This is stupid.
Thank you. Move along, please.
However, cognitive functions such as memory and response times were boosted by both 3G signals and the current ones, the study found.
... check. ... check ... check .. uhh ... check"
Well fair enough then. That might be true, but I do wonder how and why they decided to test that.
"Nausea, headaches, loss of appetite
Abandonment of self-awareness and general consideration in public places
Ability to memorise deck of cards
Limb mutation
I'm getting a nice tan and I know the theories behind it! Wow - did you guys know that you can look at the sun and get the same effect? I have also discovered that my reaction time to getting modded down has been reduced to mere minutes!
This is truly a golden age, and not some wireless corporation's self-serving sponsored study. Say that 10 times fast - I can!
I can fly too - you guys gotta try this!!
It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times (conventional cellular networks have the same effect)!
So, cell phone users have better memory and reaction times?
I would argue this has absolutely nothing to do with the phone itself, rather the fact that people WITHOUT cellphones are, well, either very old, very young, or a bit 'slower' than your normal person.
Another tainted fact.
I guess it doesn't count as "3G", but for one job in mid-2000 I was playing with this clip-on cellular modem for the Palm, and I found a pretty high correlation to feeling headachey and using the damn thing..can't remember the name of the product though (Hmm! Another symptom?)
Seriously, I'm a little wary when I read that biologist pointing out that we are essentially conducting a massive study of radiation on humans consisting of the entire population of cellphone users. Maybe we should all get tin hats after all.
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I use a Motorola 120C phone on Verizon.
I always get headaches when using it as a normal phone pressed up against my ear.
I now use a hands-free headset as much as possible, just like Maury Ballstein from "Zoolander".
Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employer.
Great - they're at it again. There is absolutely no proven link between the minute RF field radiated by a handset and health problems. Basically there is too little energy for measurable tissue heating, the electromagnetic field is too weak to induce currents in the brain proper.
.1 to 100 milliwatts for the hand-held PCS units. That's barely enough to dimly light a flashlight bulb.
What everyone seems to forget is the fact we live in an ocean of pretty powerful RF energy that ranges from VLF (very low frequency) up to the microwave region (SHF). Every time you turn on an appliance you are exposing yourself to magnetic and RF fields magnitudes greater than that of a cell phone handset. Drive past a broadcast station and you're exposed to a field density measured in volts per meter, not millivolts. To put it perspective, your common FM broadcast station operates between 5 and 100 kilowatts ERP (effective radiated power). A television transmitter can operate up to 2-4 Megawatts of ERP. Where is the uproar over that?
Your common cellphone operates at a modest 3 watts (for car-mounted 800 mhz units) to a puny
Remember these facts: You live in an ocean of electromagnetic energy. A bolt of lightning radiates tremendous RF energy. Mother earth gives off VLF emissions herself. The sun bathes you in RF in the microwave region. And have you cleaned those gaskets around the door of your microwave oven? It operates at 800 to 1000 watts of power at 2.4 GHz. All it takes is a grungy gasket or a bent door and your taking on watts of very effective heating.
I am the holder of a First Class FCC license, an Extra Class amateur license, and have worked with broadcast, land mobile, fixed service, radar, and amateur radio for decades. I have never experienced, nor have I ever encountered anyone who has experienced a health related problems for working in a high RF field. People are more likely to be injured from high voltage, burns, and mechanical means.
Please stop trying to get funding by spreading this faux academic nonsense. Quit manipulating data to make yourselves look right and then run out and cry the sky is falling. We're all tired of this and have heard quite enough.
but i forgot what i was going to say
Thank you Europeans, Japanese, South Koreans for testing out all the new high tech toys. It's good letting others do the testing that way we get 3rd or 4th generation tech relatively debugged by the rest of the world. Of course now we my have to read a few additional languages.
(bil|tr)llion dollar companies might get upset if this is true, expect more studies to find the opposite of course
in other news recent studies also found Microsoft systems are highly secure and there is nothing wrong with Ford vans or Firestone tyres...oh wait
see how science works when the concerned companies have a financial influence in studies, they always seem to get the results they paid for
Can you hear me now?
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Can you hear me now?
good.
I'm getting kind of nausious.
Can you hear me now?
good.
Severe acute pain in my head...
Can you...
what was I doing????
i remember when my father was being a jerk and to "bring us back together" he told me he might have a tumor on the side of his waist he carries his cell phone on. i was like "you f-ing deserve it, most likely you yapping on the cell phone about what hot shit you aint"
well... i found it funny.
Is anyone else having flashbacks to "Waldo", and specifically the discovery that their technology for transmitting power through the air was having a subtle (or in a few cases, not-so-subtle) cumulative negative impact on human health?
Are the differential effects due to differences in base station power output, frequencies used or (unlikely) the coding system.
Now all those fucking Soccer Moms talking on the cell phones may actually become better drivers (increased mental sharpness, faster reaction times).
WTF? Over?
Long-term systemic effects of this activity are unkown- It could be trivial, or the situation could be an analogue to the introduction of DDT in the previous century, when the substance was considered safe and effective- Measured evidence to the contrary wasn't presented for many years, and then in the face of great controversy.
The bottom line is that anyone who makes a definitive stand one way or another is a fool.
Heating the brain a little is how it does it.
Yes, this is true. Why do you think every report dicussing the safety of human exposure to microwave radiation claims "no non-thermal effects"? (Although more recently, there has been evidence that microwaves can break DNA.)
I used to do this in college during exams (a trick I learned from a biochemist friend). Wear lightweight clothes and take your shoes off, to keep your core temp down (I feel sleepy if my core temp gets too high), and a warm hat to keep your brain slightly warmer. It really is like overclocking your brain!
Being harassed by researchers while talking on the phone caused headaches in 37% of test subjects.
exposure to 3g leads to nausea and headaches of too much bad service and network of the telco company.
of course, they will have better memory and reaction times after being able to talk though the entire customer service, billing, and network departments.
oh the reaction times improve dramatically by being fast enough to redial to get through. an added bonus for practice will be to dial their ivrs line!
Live your life each day as if it was your last.
Amsterdamians should lay off the weed and try cocaine instead! THEN see those response times spike!
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I severely doubt that any positive effects on memory and reaction times is _caused_ by wireless phones.
...accidentaly, young persons are documented to have better memory and reaction time than average people :)
Actually (at least in europe), there are demographic differences between cell-phoners and the rest.
One difference being that younger people are over-overrepresented in the set of cell-phoners
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"those same subjects had better memory and reaction times"
This is what happens, JUST BEFORE YOUR HEAD BURSTS INTO FLAME!
They can not prove what will happen to people over many years of being exposed to constant radiation. All of this radio, TV, cell phone, etc, etc, radiation is new, on the evolutionary scale to the human being.
We live in a sea of radiation. It's little wonder people go postal, what with their brains being cooked 24 hours a day.
Radiation has effects on living things. No one can say or prove that ANY of it is positive, outside of a *little* solar radiation, and even that is dangerous too.
As this 3G radiation cooks people off into psychotic episodes you'll see. And watch the cancer rates skyrocket..
You see, it's actually a matter of natural selection. Those using the phones who DIDN'T have above-average reaction times, are now dead from auto accidents.
Can anyone who reads Dutch tell if they controlled the study with people who were exposed to 3G but don't actually use it? Seems to me 3G was probably installed mainly in areas where people are: busy -> stressed -> headachy, nauseous, and pretty organized and with good memory.
This leaves me wondering just how much this fiasco is going to cost me as a dutch citizen, because surely the telcos will demand compensation.
By the way, the Netherlands isn't the only country that auctioned UMTS freqs. for billions by far. If this study is repeated and proves to be correct, this could mean financial repercussions for a lot of governments.
You're all over the map. First you say heating the brain makes it work better, then you say that the point of a fever is to raise your temp so the rest of your body works better although it might cook your brain.
So which is it? Does the brain work better or worse at higher temps?
Here's the answer: this is all crap.
Your body raises your body temp sometimes when you are sick to try to hurt the bacteria it is fighting. Obviously the bacteria does well at 98.6 since that's the environment under which it entered the body and bred to a large culture in the first place. It's also the environment it came from in the last host. So raising the body temp puts the bacteria ourside its optimal envelope.
It hurts the bacteria. It hurts your body too (ever notice you feel like shit when you have a fever?) but your body cells are presumably replenished by your bodies' support structure while the bacteria have to look out for themselves.
In one episode of 'Cheers', Cliff is seated at the bar describing the
Buffalo Theory to his buddy, Norm. (I don't think I've ever heard the
concept explained any better than this....)
"Well you see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as
fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest
and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection
is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the
whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the
slowest brain cells.
Now, as we know, excessive intake of alcohol kills brain cells. But
naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this
way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making
the brain a faster and more efficient machine. And that, Norm, is why you
always feel smarter after a few beers."
The society for a thought-free internet welcomes you.
The small power output of a cell phone isnt sufficient to heat your cells.
Base stations can be dangerous things, but the received radiation diminishes very rapidly with distance (inverse square law). That's why it's critical to know just how far away the people were from the base stations, and the news reports don't say this.
If you hold your head directly in front of a microwave transmitter (even a 2G one), you're going to experience some bad effects. If you stand at the bottom of a hill and the transmitter is on top, you should be okay.
3G Waves Causes Headaches, Sharpens Memory
The scientific accomplishment here is not that 3G waves cause this problem, it's that when people are faced with expanded mental capacity they get headaches, like an overclocked chip getting thermal burnout.
Scientific evidence that people aren't used to thinking!
-R
If only this were true!
There is a mountain of science which has recognized the following. .
Here's an article with some photos of slices of brain tissue taken from rats exposed to cell phone EM. The effects are real.
-FL
Studies have shown that reading /. can cause nausea, headaches, and. . .
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and. .
impotence!
I have no source to this, but I remember a study that showed this some 2-3 years ago. The study also showed that after a while the body/brain had reached its peak in "performance" (better reaction times and better memory) and began to decline.
The study focused on one man who had used an old version of mobile system (the kind that's not very mobile at all) which gave out heavy radiation - much worse than today's mobile cellulars. He had serious problems remembering simple facts and his reactions to outer stimuli was very poor. Otoh he had used this cellular some 3 years.
As I said; I have no reference to this study, you'd have to take my word for it. My word counts by the way.
So don't happily go call all your friends thinking you'll one day be able to beat Neo.
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So... all us people with tin-foil hats aren't so crazy afterall.
Seriously though, I can just see the lawyers falling all over themselves to be the first through the courthouse door with a class action law-suit for the residents who live within X-mile radius of the towers. This will be bigger with the lawyers than listening to police scanners and chasing ambulances. Cell-phone companys almost always have deep pockets to pick. Cha-Ching Cha-Ching!
found this article at CNN. it's article also brief, but has more info than the article in the /. story. anyway, here 'tis:
... They felt tingling sensations, got headaches and felt nauseous," a spokeswoman for the Dutch Economics Ministry said.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -- Radio signals for the next generation of mobile phone services can cause headaches and nausea, according to a study conducted by three Dutch ministries.
The study, the first of its kind, compared the impact of radiation from base stations used for the current mobile telephone network with that of base stations for new third generation (3G) networks for fast data transfer, which will enable services such as video conferencing on a mobile device.
A base station, which usually covers a "cell" area of several square kilometers (miles), transmits signals to mobile phones with an electromagnetic field.
"If the test group was exposed to third generation base station signals there was a significant impact
There was no negative impact from signals for current mobile networks.
However, cognitive functions such as memory and response times were boosted by both 3G signals and the current signals, the study found. It said people became more alert when they were exposed to both.
Government ministers responsible for Economic Affairs, Health and Telecommunications said follow-up research was needed to confirm the findings as well as to look at any longer-term health effects and biological causes.
They will also discuss the study with the European Commission, the spokeswoman said.
The double-blind laboratory tests -- meaning no one in the survey knew if a 3G-like base station was actually transmitting signals -- exposed test subjects to expected levels of average radiation for 3G networks when they become commercial.
The GSM Association, a global organization of mobile telecommunications operators, said it was studying the report and could not comment.
The study, conducted by the Dutch technological research institute TNO, was the first to look for an impact of mobile telephones on well-being. It was also the first study to find a statistically significant negative impact from 3G base stations.
Previous research on a negative health impact of mobile phones, mostly second-generation, has been inconclusive.
Existing research gives no scientific evidence that second-generation phones cause brain tumors, while a long-term study by the International Agency on Research on Cancer is not expected to yield results before 2004.
Previous research did find an impact on cognitive functions, which was also found in the Dutch survey. But TNO noted that earlier studies always measured the impact of cellphones held close to the head, causing high fields of radiation close to the ear and warming of the brain.
TNO's study used lower a dose of radiation to mimic base station signals rather than handsets.
Handsets emit stronger radiation when they are used, while base stations transmit more constant levels of radio signals, exposing everyone within range.
This new bar would offer the benefits of o2, botox, and 3G networks in one place.
Add a little pot smoke in there to combat the nasea and it should make that trip to Rodeo Dr. that much easier.
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As a result of this exposure, he became DOCTOR WIRELESS! Dr. Wireless, feared enemy to all that is good and right, can render event the stoutest of men INCAPACITATED with his 3G WAVES! One blast from these wave will leave his victims incapacitated with NAUSEA and HEADACHES! The effects of these attacks don't stop there. The effects linger on FOREVER as the victims are cursed NEVER TO FORGET this encounter!
Why would you assume it is the radio waves? Maybe the effect is caused by some property of the audio. For example, lag. For example end-to-end echo. Have they done the test where they simulate the digital audio exactly but with wired connections to prove or disprove the radio link?
Sattelite, AM, FM, UHF, TV, Power Lines.. it's a sea of radio waves. There is no way to isolate anyone to study the effects of any frequency of radio waves. So at best these studies are unscientfic and only serve those who think they can sue the wireless companies becuase they feel sick. When there are pleny of sources.
Sorry, but this Advanced-class ham has to disagree with you, based on personal experience and observation.
I have never experienced, nor have I ever encountered anyone who has experienced a health related problems for working in a high RF field.
Back in the late 70's - early 80's when I was getting into ham radio, QST was warning that the deaths due to leukemia in the Amateur community were four times the national average.
You live in an ocean of electromagnetic energy.
I'm very aware of it, thank you: I'm an RF sensitive. I found out that delightful fact about myself back in '78 at a Novice class held in a large cafeteria. They hung a 10-meter dipole at one end of the hall and loaded up an FT-101 into it to find a sample QSO. I got a sudden fierce headache and had to retreat to the other end of the room.
I could handle five watts of HF without nervous-system discomfort; I already knew that from my CB days. When I got my ticket, I stayed QRPp for that reason.
Whatever the physical basis is for the effect, it's frequency-related. A handheld CB at 27 MHz didn't bother me much at all, but even a watt is too much up at 2 meters. After a 10-minute QSO using a TH-21AT and a rubber duckie near the head, my eyes have that "all day in the beach sun" feeling and my thinking is shot for a while.
I coped by getting good at matching my antennas. If all the RF goes up the feedline and none of it comes back, I'm fine. Even at 1.9 GHz PCS, a magmount gets the signal out of the car and makes normal hands-free telephone use possible. If I can't get the RF away from my head, I just won't key the rig.
When I got into computers, I found that I could tell if the machine was on by sticking my hand down in there and seeing if it tingled. (Considering the prevalence of power indicators, this wasn't a very useful talent.) That was on 8080-driven S-100 bus machines; I don't even try
that trick with current machines, but I know that touchpad cursor controls are mildly annoying to the fingertip, and I put up with a soft "ringing in the ears" kind of constant squeal in my head, clear across the house, if my computers and their CRT monitors are on.
The effect is probably more electrostatic than electromagnetic. I say this because I attended my child in an MRI session and had no ill effects. If it was magnetic I should have been clobbered then.
The effect might have to do with neurochemistry in some way. I say this because, if I let my nutrition slip, particularly calcium and magnesium, I am more susceptible.
These are my informal personal observations based on experiences. I think that I'm probably just a little more sensitive than normal folks. It's enough to tell me that there's something there, and saying that it can't be there because it doesn't fit your worldview won't change the facts.
Of course the real cause of the increased reaction times etc. is almost certainly increased blood flow resulting from heating caused by absorption of the EM waves. Basically you are very gently microwaving your head. This effect has been known for some years in connection with radiation form the phones themselves. Experiments were done testing peoples reaction times with phones strapped to their heads. The reaction times increased when the phones were turned on.
What is worring about this study is that it is radiation from the base stations not the phones themselves. I have never thought that holding a radio transmiter next to your head for long periods of time can be entirely good for you but at least people are making a choice about that. With base stations you don't have a choice however. The article is very short on details. It would be very interesting to know at what distance from a base station these effects maifest themselves. If it is over a sigificant fraction of the cell area that would be extremely worrying.
I personally don't see any distinction between positive and negative effects, increased reaction time versus headaches. An effect on you brain is an effect on your brain. What you really have to worry about are the effects of long term exposure and that is totally unknown. If there are short term effects then there are likely to long term effects as well and they may be very different and are most likely to be always bad.
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>>> It also found that those same subjects had better memory and reaction times (conventional cellular networks have the same effect)!
Should it be legal to drink and drive if you are also talking on your 3G phone?
This explains why the cockroaches in my house always seem to remember where I put the roach motels.
They keep putting up mini flashing road horse blockers thingies around them whenever I put them somewhere.
Once when I woke up in the middle of the night and flicked on the light really fast, I saw them spell out "we're on to you" on the cieling.
This 3G network must be stopped at all costs!
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An experiment in mindcontrol for your brane. Lets all don our tinfoil hats before the government begins regulating your bowel movements.
Who makes this stuff up and why the hell do they get money to conduct these studies??
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Reading this stuff reall makes me wonder what they're smoking over there.
Oh wait it's Amsterdam... Never Mind
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Have you already forgotten what the article said? Our memories have been imporoved!
Looks like they finally found their "killer application"
Why is it surprising that the guitar-god triumvirate of Satriani, Vai, and Johnson might cause a few headaches?
There's a flaw with this study. They fail to realize that the headaches and nausea are caused by the 3G service, not the 3G waves. The quicker reaction times can be attributed to the fact that people are constantly answering their cel phones as fast as humanly possible, and the improved memory is just a sign that we're forcing ourselves to memorize dozens of bits of contact information for each person we know.
This is not part of my post. It's my signature. I bet you're disappointed.
that exposure to 3G waves can cause headaches and nausea (conventional cellular service doesn't have these effects)
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Does on me. If I use a (GSM) mobile for more than a few minute I get uncomfortable & it can cause headaches if I stick with it. What I've found anecdotally is that the more intelligent the person, the more likely they are to be negatively impacted by prolonged exposure to a Cellphones. Sitting next door to one on a train can set me off. Theory: the more intelligent the person the more highly tuned the brain therefore more sensitive to electromagnetic disturbance. Or should that be arrogant
Haven't noticed any improvement in reflexes or thinking - given the number of jabbering morons running around in front of moving vehicles & crashing their cars I'd be inclined to question it...
What are you listening to? (http://megamanic.blogetery.com/)
...uh, sorry, it's sort of late, but you remember the movie "Powder" ? If not, order a copy from Amazon and watch it...You sound like you may be this guy's brother. :-)
I moved house and long after I should have settled in was still feeling nauseous and suffering from constant dull headaches. I woke up feeling hung-over every morning even though I never drink alcohol. I went researching and discovered a mobile base station was located (hidden away) near the flats (apartments). I bought an Environmental COM reader to measure the strength of the signals (it even identifies hotspots) and no surprise... was being blasted with levels of radiation that the UK government says is safe and allows near residential areas. It's amazing what you can buy now... lined wallpaper and curtains to shield you... worth every penny.
And remember, I had no idea there was a nearby base station when I moved (I'll be more careful when selecting my next home) but I my body was telling me something wasn't right.
The brain's function is affected by low power EM. Those who genuinely question whether or not this is true only do so because they haven't explored the masses of available data thoroughly enough.
-FL