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'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools
An anonymous reader writes "Readers of Slashdot might be familiar with Lakehead University's ban on WiFi routers a few years ago in Thunder Bay, Ontario because of 'health concerns,' a policy apparently still in effect. Now it seems a group of concerned parents in a number of communities in Ontario have petitioned the local school boards over similar concerns at public schools, where their kids are apparently experiencing 'headaches to dizziness and nausea and even racing heart rates' — symptoms that appear only when they are in school on weekdays, not on weekends at home. 'The symptoms, which also include memory loss, trouble concentrating, skin rashes, hyperactivity, night sweats and insomnia, have been reported in 14 Ontario schools in Barrie, Bradford, Collingwood, Orillia and Wasaga Beach since the board decided to go wireless ...' Besides Wi-Fi signals, could there possibly be any other logical explanation for kids having more symptoms of illness on school days than at home on weekends or in the summer?"
That's obviously the joke.
I was fine all throughout primary and secondary school, but since coming to college I've noticed that I feel physically sick in the lectures, it was enough to make me stop attending lectures almost entirely (maybe I'll do better next year).
Could have been the lighting.
Some people are extremely sensitive to (C)CFLs, especially if they have a low CRI or a cold colour temperature. One of the lecture halls at college kept giving me headaches when I attended in the evening; then again, I knew it was the ceiling lamps, because I've had such issues in a couple of other CFL-lit areas in the past.
Other possible actual causes, aside from just wanting to play hooky, could be allergic reactions to chemicals (some cleaners are really nasty) or some kinds of mold.
As for wifi, that should be easy to test -- do the kids get sick in malls? Somehow I doubt it, but lots of stores use wifi. If the kids don't feel the same in the mall (except perhaps when walking withing 50' of a "Body Shop" store's stench), then it's not likely wifi.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Wish I had a mod points -- who the heck moderated parent as troll?! I find mercury poisoning from a tuna diet quite believeable, heck if you eat more than a can of tuna a day you may be putting yourself at risk.
You need to eat quite a bit of tuna on a tuna-based diet; perhaps a pound per day?
Let's run some numbers.
EPA's limit is 0.1micrograms per kg body mass per day. So for a 70kg adult, the EPA limit is 7ug per day.
Now one pound of tuna is ~450 grams, at FDA average of 0.2ppm concentration in tuna, you get 90 micrograms, so you're 13 times over the limit. If you're unlucky and get fish close to FDA limit of 1ppm mercury concentration, you get 0.45 mg.
Out of 0.45mg of mercury per day, about 0.4mg will be accumulating in luckiest of circumstances (to be conservative, I'd just assume 100%). You'll be sick in short order.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
Perhaps this chart helpfully provided by the cocksucking regulators with data going back as far as 1978 would have saved you some grief. Or perhaps the very notion of "I'm going to eat only one thing" might have encouraged a normal person to do some research beyond reading the label on the damn can.
What part of "consult with your doctor before starting any program of diet or exercise" didn't you understand?
And then seriously? Your reaction to your own gobsmackingly foolhardy ignorance about what you put into your body results in you trusting nobody but yourself to supervise your water quality?