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when you hear the word cancer being thrown around in technology circles as

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often as not the thing being discussed is a game console RGB setup or video

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thumbnail or maybe even an overpriced Apple product but there's one real

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discussion about how technology relates to actual cancer that just never seems

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to go away does radiation from wireless devices like cell phones cause it to

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answer let's unpack exactly what your cell phone gives off other than location

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data to advertisers to send and receive calls and data cell phones use what's

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called electromagnetic radiation the same kind of energy your car stereo

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receives and turns into sound the same kind of energy microwaves used to heat

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up your food that x-ray machines use to see your bones and even that the Sun or

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a light bulb emits as plain old visible

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light of course that word radiation might immediately make you think of a

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cancer inducing nuclear accident and that seems pretty logical think about

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how you have to wear that heavy protective lead jacket when you go in

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for an x-ray or how ultraviolet rays from the Sun can burn you and give you

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skin cancer well let's hold on a minute

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although certain kinds of em radiation can indeed pose real health hazards it's

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important to know this is restricted to higher energy varieties like UV light

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X-rays and gamma rays though you won't have to worry about that uh last one

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unless you're hanging out unshielded in outer space or standing too close to a

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nuclear explosion so if that's the case you probably have far greater concerns

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anyway the point is these kinds of radiation propagate at much higher

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frequencies than radio waves or visible light meaning they're a lot more

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energetic this is bad because they're actually energetic enough to damage your

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DNA's chemical structure when they hit your body causing mutations that can

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lead to cancer if they hit genes that regulate cell growth and even possibly

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death you've actually seen this for yourself if you've ever gotten a sunburn

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the pain and redness are actually part of your body's response to DNA damage

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caused by too much UV light but the good news is that the kinds of radiation

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given off by cell phones Wireless rotters and laptops is far too low

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frequency and therefore low energy to mess with your DNA many Studies have

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been done to examine this issue and no definitive link between Cancer and the

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use of cell phones or other common Wireless gadgets has ever been found and

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this actually makes sense the highest frequency waves currently used by cell

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phone networks and Wi-Fi are around 1900

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MHz to 60 GHz respectively by contrast

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the lowest energy forms of UV light have a frequency of around 30 million GHz so

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if ear cancer is the excuse you give Grand when you don't want to hear about

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any more stories about back when things were better you better her hopes she

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never watches this video though to be fair there's a good chance it won't

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change her opinion anyways in spite of the numerous studies many folks are

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still concerned that cell phones pose a real danger and some have even gone so

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far as to relocate to areas that have fewer radio waves flying through the air

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one such area is the United States national radio quiet Zone near the

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virginiawest Virginia border where the government has restricted radio traffic

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so it can carry out scientific and military operations more easily but in

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reality there's really no reason your smartphone should have you literally

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