From Slate.com
Science writer, Santa Fean and enjoyable curmudgeon George Johnson has an entertaining and informative
currently.
Johnson climbs to the top of the Santa Fe ski area and spends two hours basking in the intense radiation. Local Wi-Fighter Bill Bruno had assured Johnson that he would be incapacitated by the experience.
Not so, Johnson discovered.
Being a science-minded dude, Johnson went equipped with a handheld meter to determine the power of the menace on the mountain:
"The device...measured the magnetic fields buffeting the mountain," Johnson writes, "which spiked at 100 milligauss, about one-five-hundredth as strong as a refrigerator magnet."
The rest of the article details his extreme efforts trying to get the needle on his device to even budge when confronted with mobile phones and Wi-Fi transmitters.
Johnson blogs regularly on his own site,
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