Honey, turn off your cell phone
Or rather, "if you like honey, put your cell phone away."
Researchers in the UK have recently determined that whole colonies of bees are dying out because of electro-magnetic
interference from cell phones.
Alarmingly, this situation has already presented itself in the US:
The thing that the article fails to answer, however, is how we go about fixing this disaster. Keep cell phones away from bee colonies? Certainly. Stop using them altogether? Not likely.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that Einstein ever uttered those words.
Researchers in the UK have recently determined that whole colonies of bees are dying out because of electro-magnetic
interference from cell phones.Alarmingly, this situation has already presented itself in the US:
No wonder honey is so expensive! But that's not all we need bees for, of course:The alarm was first sounded last autumn, but has now hit half of all American states. The West Coast is thought to have lost 60 per cent of its commercial bee population, with 70 per cent missing on the East Coast.
The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left".
The thing that the article fails to answer, however, is how we go about fixing this disaster. Keep cell phones away from bee colonies? Certainly. Stop using them altogether? Not likely.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, it's highly unlikely that Einstein ever uttered those words.
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