INTRODUCTION

There’s a kind of doomsday feel to things right now - have you noticed? It’s not just that the Mayan calendar runs out on December 21st of next year. It’s not even the plethora of new warnings from astrophysicists, doctors and geologists about the possibly catastrophic events that are now known to be on the not-too-distant horizon. It has more to do with the zeitgeist, an undifferentiated sense that things can’t go on like they are forever.
And, of course, there are clues. Almost daily, items half-buried in news reports point to the Doom scenarios just lurking around the corner. Maybe you are too busy or too trapped in denial to notice them all, so this blog is here to help you keep track.

Friday 14 October 2011

Something to Worry About Today:

Your mobile phone could be killing you.

No, not just because of the possible links to brain and testicular cancers, and not even because a pretty smart phone makes you more susceptible to mugging. New research has found that a quarter of the handsets in circulation are breeding grounds for deadly bacteria such as E coli.

Lots of people don’t wash their hands after using the toilet. The hard to clean little surfaces on their mobiles, which also heat up to optimal breeding temperatures, are havens for such potential killers as MRSA.

Moral: Be careful what you put to your lips.
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