I have no doubt that, if we haven’t destroyed ourselves through the destruction of envionment in the next decade, mobile phone companies and telcos will end up following the same path as the big tobacco companies as the excessive exposure to mobile phone and other wireless signals causes widespread cancer and other illnesses. From the article :

Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. He sent it to faculty and staff Wednesday, saying, among other things, that children should use cell phones only for emergencies, since their developing organs are the most likely to be sensitive to possible effects of exposure to electromagnetic fields.

In his 10-point advisory, Herberman also urges adults to keep phones away from their heads and use speakerphones or wireless headsets.

He suggests that people try to avoid constantly carrying their cell phones on their bodies and also try not to keep the devices nearby at night under the pillow or on a nightstand. He even warns against using cell phones in public places like buses because it exposes others to the phone’s electromagnetic fields.

The relevance of the Arctic ice melting probably hasn’t hit home with most people yet.  Here is a frightening article that tells you exactly what will happen: Millions of tons of methane released from the oceans 20x more damaging than carbon dioxide .  The rapid acceleration of climate change that will cause will be fatal, not just to millions of people, but billions. Time to switch to a vegetarian diet people and be green in every means possible.

Underground stores of methane are important because scientists believe their sudden release has in the past been responsible for rapid increases in global temperatures, dramatic changes to the climate, and even the mass extinction of species. Scientists aboard a research ship that has sailed the entire length of Russia’s northern coast have discovered intense concentrations of methane – sometimes at up to 100 times background levels – over several areas covering thousands of square miles of the Siberian continental shelf.

The amount of methane stored beneath the Arctic is calculated to be greater than the total amount of carbon locked up in global coal reserves so there is intense interest in the stability of these deposits as the region warms at a faster rate than other places on earth.

A study at New York City’s Weill Cornell Medical Center, called AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) will spend the next 3 years investigating out-of-body experiences that people have when they die .  I imagine many scientists would have trouble facing their beliefs if science proved that out-of-body experiences were real, and not a trick of the brain.  From the article:

What was your first interview like with someone who had reported an out-of-body experience?

Eye-opening and very humbling. Because what you see is that, first of all, they are completely genuine people who are not looking for any kind of fame or attention. In many cases they haven’t even told anybody else about it because they’re afraid of what people will think of them. I have about 500 or so cases of people that I’ve interviewed since I first started out more than 10 years ago. It’s the consistency of the experiences, the reality of what they were describing. I managed to speak to doctors and nurses who had been present who said these patients had told them exactly what had happened, and they couldn’t explain it. I actually documented a few of those in my book What Happens When We Die because I wanted people to get both angles – not just the patients’ side but also the doctors’ side – and see how it feels for the doctors to have a patient come back and tell them what was going on. There was a cardiologist that I spoke with who said he hasn’t told anyone else about it because he has no explanation for how this patient could have been able to describe in detail what he had said and done. He was so freaked out by it that he just decided not to think about it anymore.

They were actually pretty spot-on with this one, except maybe the husband paying for his wife’s shopping.