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Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain
Damek writes "According to UW researchers, prolonged exposure to low-level magnetic fields, similar to those emitted by such common household devices as blow dryers, electric blankets and razors, can damage brain cell DNA. The damage appears to be cumulative, so you'd best get rid of your electric razors & blankets ASAP! The full study is available online now. No word yet for Cell Phone users' brains..."
Personally I'm not concerned, my tinfoil hat doubles as a Faraday cage.
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Hmmmm. Let's see: Electric shaver in the morning, RF access through security to my labs, Bluetooth synching, 802.11b & g for my internet access and music streaming, television, radio, microwave oven, cell phone..........Oh man, I'm screwed. :-)
But at least I got rid of most of the CRTs in my life.
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So not only am I more manly for using a straight razor...I'm also less likely to have brain rot!
Now if I could just find some more tissues before pass out from bloodloss....
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"No word yet for Cell Phone users' brains..."
I'm sure someone will prove its existence, eventually.
:P
its the BLOW DRYERS.
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I used to work for a guy who buzzed the stubble off his face like twice a day. He was a real hustler and he thought he got more sales if he was all bay smooth I guess. But he was dumber than a bag of hammers. I guess now i know why.
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Excuse me, but yes, I do shave my whole head everday with an electric razor... and I haven't noticed any... uh, what were we talking about?
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So my dual monitor setup is double-notgood for me? =(
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no blow dryers and razors?
Now I understand why Richard Stallman is so smart.
So, I'll need to upgrade my tinfoil hat to a full tinfoil helmet?
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Judging by most posts on Slashdot, I'd say the damage has already been done!
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Are I don thnk has ani affect.
And it'll make hair grow on your palms.
Oh, did you mean at work?
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No, it's double-plus ungood.
You are making the assumption that people on /. shave, use hair dryers, or any type of personal grooming.
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I use a dual G5 shaver every morning, and the g/f always points out how I missed something here, something there, and it gets consecutively worse - I keep missing more and more.
And here I thought it was just because I was hungover.
In related news, DARPA funds research to eliminate the North and South pole.
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In the study, the researchers discovered that rats exposed to a 60-hertz field for 24 hours showed significant DNA damage
In Europe we have 50 Hz fields. *sighs in relief*
Fortunatly, most women use their vrbrators no where near their brain, However, the male version of this device is typically placed directly over the male brain.....
Hmm,
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I'm getting this weird vision.
Well maybe the rat likes it
Will it make hair grow on my iPAQ too?
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One significant implication of this is that certain types of cells with higher iron content - such as brain cells - may be more susceptible to damage from electromagnetic fields.
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed...
Personally, I'd expect to catch fire before getting brain damage if exposed to a hair dryer for 48 hours straight...
And you think you have it bad? Look at my misery!
A loose analogy would be that I can hold my breath for ten seconds 30 times over the course of a day without any danger, but if I tried to do it all at once the results would probably be pretty harmful.
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Good news: The study says that the brain cell damage effects were negated by use of "free radical scavengers" like melatonin!
Bad news: Now I have to worry about falling asleep on the freeway!
No, I don't have headphones that tap 110 AC. If you're using headphones like that, you should have your head examined...literally.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
....if this affects the DNA in, oh I don't know, the "nether" regions of the human body. I mean, I do plan on having kids someday, provided I ever hook up with a woman (ANY WOMAN). Please respond immediately as my razor finished recharging and I'm kind o in the middle of something.
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That, and I like the fact that if I take care of my straight razor, I'll probably need to buy another one in, oh, 50-75 years. The one I'm using now was manufactured around 1895 and I picked it up at a flea market for $3. Shaves great.
I've only found one downside. If you're in a real hurry and try to rush a shave, you'll end up looking like you were in a knife fight ^_^
Moral of the story: spend an extra 3 minutes and take your time.
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I find this whole study to be flawed. I mean, really, when are rats gonna use electric razors or blow dryers in the "real world"? C'mon!
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Man this article just cracked me up.
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Actually, the magnitude of a magnetic field drops away as the square of the distance from the source.
For a point source, it does. For a line source, it drops proportional to the distance. For a (relative to you) large plane, it doesn't drop at all. Granted, a point source probably approximates an electric razor, except at close range. (How far away do you hold your electric razor?) Old electric blankets had a large loop, not very good. Newer ones have the wire in pairs, so the field cancels out better (twisted pairs would be better yet, but probably lumpy). My house was wired sometime around when they invented electricity, before they had multiconductor cable, and sometimes the hot and neutral wires go by completely different routes (at least two circuits share the same neutral, too). So it's like living inside of an electric razor, I guess. Maybe I should connect a ground wire to my tinfoil hat.
If you are a male who not only owns a blow dryer but uses it, you have bigger problems than potential brain damage. =P
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If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
> prolonged exposure to low-level magnetic fields,
> similar to those emitted by such common household
> devices as blow dryers
So that explains women.
Hey, I resent that! I shower at *least* once a week, or even more often if the flies that follow me around start dying by Wednesday or so...
...the electric field put out by my mon....mon thingy...this glowy thing next to my computer with the pretty pictures on it. Mon...mon something.
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so, where are those who were so critical of bush after this article? shouldn't you be demanding he imposes some new regulations based on this new study? is he ignoring this for political reasons?!? damn his soft money contributors from pro-electric razor groups!!
Well of course light duty magnetic fields can directly effect the health of your body or all these would would be of little practical use at all.
I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.
Hair driers do not transmit electrical energy through the air.
Then your hairdryer is insufficiently overclocked, sir.
Joe: These magnetic fields are sucking away my electrons.
Billy: Are you sure?
Joe: I'm positive!
Um, I don't know where your jaw is, but mine is attached to my skull.
TANSTAAFL
Next on the list, that alarm clock on my headboard that I sleep next to for 5-6 hours a day. Not that I'll be sad to see it go.
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> As I've said elsewhere, your tinfoil hat won't do a damn thing to block a magnetic field, grounded or not. Come on, you can surely find a magnet and piece of foil somewhere in your house and perform the extremely simple and obvious experiment that proves this...
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That's good news! All I need to do now is shave _before_ I go to bed!
you are holding it against your skull when you shave your beard. unless you've named *that* "beard". in that case, god save your children.
Is this like when they inject rats daily, with three times their body-weight of caffeine, and then say that caffeine gives you cancer?
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At last a rational scientific explanation for observed facts ;)
But at least your hair would be dry.
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What does my brain care if its DNA is damaged, does that affect my thinking? Will i stop shaving with an electric razor? I dunno.
But, I guarantee I WILL stop shaving my genitals with an electric razor. No way do I want to damage any sperm swimming nearby.
It's not a tumah!!
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One of my favorite doctors, Dr. Weil, who has a great website, by the way, recommends that...
Well he does have some credibility, from his photo it looks like he hasn't used any type of personal grooming device in at least 30 years.
Except that the very fact that you've blacked out indicates that some harm was done to your brain.
So how many times have you done this?
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Small amounts of saliva trickling down your throat causes cancer.
Huh?
Why should holding your breath be attractive to females?
If you're thinking of cunnilingus...if you need to hold your breath, you're either doing it wrong or with a hygienically challenged partner...
Uh-huh. In related news, the 3 blade disposable razor now gives way to the 4-blade dispozable razor.
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(Interesting point about computer usage...I've experienced it but didn't realize it...it's 'cause the monitor stimulates your brain?)
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Aaaahh.... So that's why smart men have beards =].
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