Wi-Fi Radiation is Killing Our Trees

What is next? Really? I feel like reading Popular Science is now one of the most depressing things ever. Our trees are bleeding! And I am sure, where there is wifi there will continue to be wifi.

"To test the hypothesis that the mystery illness was caused by radiation poisoning, the researchers took 20 ash trees and exposed them to various kinds of radiation for three months. Sure enough, the ash trees exposed to Wi-Fi signals showed telltale signs of radiation sickness, including a "lead-like shine" on their leaves, indicating the oncoming death of those leaves. In the Netherlands, a whopping 70% of urban trees are suffering from radiation poisoning, up from only 10% five years ago--understandable, considering the explosion in Wi-Fi use in the past five years."

Pain-free cows? what?

There, of all things, are now cows engineered to not feel pain. Although all the cows that have this are eventually slaughtered, and it does make it slightly more humane, does that mean that they don't suffer? I remember learning in another class that for animals, pain is one thing, but fear is much more of an almost excruciating feeling for these animals. I cannot imagine how the slaughterhouses will change because of the fact that the animals can no longer feel pain. The moral responsibility to reduce pain will be extinguished an the slaughterhouses will increase the unhabitable conditions of these animals.

"How Science is Changing your Thanksgiving Menu"

Popular Science wrote an article about something we had talked about in class, the abundance of GM foods. The article itself was very interesting, even mentioning Monsanto. It is hard to think of all the delicious foods that my grandparents make transitioning over years into more and more genetically modified, until there will no longer be any food untouched. I guess that one of these days, there will be a report 'Erin Brockovich' style about how it is hurting a certain part of the population, and we will try and revert back to non-GM organic foods.

"And just as we built them, we took the buildings down, brick by brick. We took the steel and the gold and the silver and the oil and put them back beneath the skin of the earth where they belonged. We turned the roads back to rocks and grass and flowers. We told the animals "We're sorry." We took our clothes off and felt the wind on our skin and you and I, we were not ashamed.

Then we turned around, and walked back into the sea".

Sounds morose, but more ironic right? We are a consumer society, and really is there anything we can do to change it at this point? we need a revolution.