Left In Lowell

The African daisies I seeded last week in a tray are now sprouting! Soon to follow, I hope, are columbines and snapdragons and various veggies.

I know it’s just a tiny little triumph over winter, and not very exciting to anyone else. But I’m excited!

Go ahead and use this as an open thread to talk about spring, gardens, or whatever else while I throttle my computer for not working today.

This utterly depresses me.

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take “immediate steps” to reduce exposure to their radiation.

The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.

It draws on growing evidence – exclusively reported in the IoS in October – that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.

Sigh.