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Electric Shavers Rot Your Brain

Posted by michael on from the luddites-right-as-usual dept.

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..."

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  1. About your sig by serutan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Strictly speaking, those words belong to Chris Knight, the character, not Val Kilmer, the actor. (If Kilmer played President Kennedy, you wouldn't give Kilmer credit for saying, "Ask not what your country can do for you...")

  2. Re:Umm... and he could too by inertia187 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's true, but I got pretty freaked out when I thought Guybrush died when he fell off the cliff. Then he bounced back up and said, "Rubber tree." Me and my brother couldn't stop laughing. Then we saved.

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  3. Re:Umm... and he could too by CyberDruid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If I remember correctly you could sort of lose by putting the piece of string in the large kettel on board of the ship. It disappeared and you could not use it later as a fuse for the cannon.

    Man was I pissed when I found out...

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  4. Do not use while sleeping by pipingguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    During the 1998 ice storm in Montreal I used an el-cheapo hair dryer to keep warm while the electricity was out.

  5. Re:The whole point of posting AC is to use 1st per by twentycavities · · Score: 0, Offtopic
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