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Home My Photo Blog (Moblog) Observations Java Hot Products Books/Knowledge Devices Operators Mobile Messaging My Courses My Profile My ideas/thoughts Techno Vision Blogroll Me! Join Paul's mail list	Wednesday, April 28, 2004   :: Reckoning with Risk :: I am writing a new book about wireless, aimed at a wider readership than my last one. I am currently writing about the health hazards of building your own antenna for boosting the range of WiFi, discussing Andrew Clapp's legendary "Cantenna" design. This reminded me of the suggestion from some study that mobile handset radiation can warm up the cells in the brain, which is another way of saying "cook" them. Anyhow, it brought to mind the whole topic of health scares and how ill-equipped the hapless consumer is in assessing health information, particularly such quotes from a BBC website story as: “In laboratory tests, scientists at Nottingham University, UK, have found that microwave emissions typical of mobile phones make a type of earthworm more fertile.” What does this mean? Does that mean that using a mobile is a kind of fertility aid? Or does it mean we shouldn't use our mobiles in the garden? I'm really not sure.   An interesting read on such issues as evaluating health scares is “Reckoning with Risk” by Gerd Gigerenzer, Penguin 2003.   5:45:58 PM    comment []   © Copyright 2004 Paul Golding. Last update: 5/17/2004; 11:02:31 AM.	April 2004 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat         1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30   Mar   May Sign up to my email list - Send me email Visit my personal website to find out more about me. Consult my booklist on Amazon Blogroll: