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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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its the BLOW DRYERS.
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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Judging by most posts on Slashdot, I'd say the damage has already been done!
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And it'll make hair grow on your palms.
Oh, did you mean at work?
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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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.....
Personally, I'd expect to catch fire before getting brain damage if exposed to a hair dryer for 48 hours straight...
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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....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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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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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 attempting to shave by rubbing your face on your Mac, you're probably still drunk.
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.
Um, I don't know where your jaw is, but mine is attached to my skull.
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That's good news! All I need to do now is shave _before_ I go to bed!
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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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