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Scientists To Cure Malaria By Microwaving You (Wait, What?)

Malaria kills almost a million people every year and makes another 250 million people very, very sick. Soon we may be able to instantly cure the scourge the same way you heat up your sad, frozen dinner-for-one.

June 3, 2011
Mobile

Stephen Colbert Solves This Whole Mobile Phone Radiation Problem

Your mobile phone is killing you! Maybe. OK, not really. But if you’re still worried about the microwave radiation pulsing from your handset, Stephen Colbert has the perfect solution for you. Assuming you’ve got certain resources handy.

June 2, 2011
Entertainment

So Maybe Dropped Calls Aren’t That Bad After All

I get it, you’re tired of your iPhone dropping calls. Heard it, lived it. But in light of the WHO report that mobile phones are maybe sort of kind of a little bit possibly cancer-causing, Funny or Die suggests that’s maybe that’s not the worst thing?

Science

List Of Other Things As Cancer-y As Phones, According To WHO

The World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Research on Cancer now considers mobile phones usage to be a possible, or “Class 2B”, carcinogen. Here’s everything else they consider to be a 2B carcinogen, otherwise presented without comment:

June 1, 2011
Science

Mobiles Deemed ‘Possibly Carcinogenic’ By Leading Cancer Experts

The back-and-forth brawl between studies suggesting that mobile phones do and don’t cause cancer just took a bold step toward the former camp today, with the World Health Organisation classifying mobile phones as potential links to brain cancer.

May 18, 2010
Science

Huge WHO Mobile Phones And Cancer Study Ends Up Inconclusive

The World Health Organisation studied almost 13,000 mobile phone users over the course of 10 years to determine whether or not there’s a link between mobile phones and cancer. Their results? Inconclusive!

December 15, 2009

Get A Free iTunes Episode Of Doctor Who On The Age’s Website

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Despite a deep-seeded loathing of Fairfax’s tendency to play video ads with sound every time you change pages on one of their sites, I have to admit I’m a fan of this Apple advertorial offer. You can get a free download from iTunes every day from today until Boxing Day. Today’s offer is an episode of Doctor Who.

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