[LINK] Our wireless world...

[Kim Holburn]

On 2006/Nov/30, at 1:03 PM, Stewart Fist wrote:
> The one I like the most though, is those extension cable mike/ 
> earpieces,
> which allow you to move the transmitter away from your head, and  
> cradle it
> in your crutch while you are driving.   How many Linkers of  
> reproductive age
> use these ?

I like these but since the phones use them as aerials and I seem to  
recall some tests that found having your handfree headset plugged in  
led to much higher radiation levels on some phones.

Also I always thought that if cell-phone radiation was going to  
affect the body, it would be the organ with the most electrical  
activity which would be affected the most - ie the brain.  Maybe not  
though.


On 2006/Nov/30, at 11:09 AM, Stewart Fist wrote:
> DNA, for instance, is a relatively long-strand but wound into a  
> very very
> tiny coil.  It is also a semi-conductor, and this fact is exploited  
> in the
> comet-assay test to see if there are breaks in the strand.

What an extraordinary idea.  I think it is a coiled coiled coil or  
something like it (not sure how many iterations) and it uncoils in  
certain circumstances like for instance when it is being read.  This  
happens not only in mitosis but in RNA production and probably other  
times. ---
I wonder what effect that has on it's electrical properties.

Kim
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