SpotlightRadioRead along: Hi, I’m Liz Waid bringing you Spotlight’s word of the day. Today’s word is RADIATION. This word comes from today’s program, JAPAN IN RECOVERY. The word RADIATION is a NOUN. It means “waves of energy from something that produces heat or light; energy from a nuclear substance, which can be dangerous.” Here’s RADIATION in a sentence from today’s program: “They must clean the radiation out of the area where people used to live.” Share this word with your friends and join us tomorrow for another Spotlight word of the day!
PewariInteresting. From what I can find, this was an initial study based only on 20 trees - way too small a sample to make any conclusions, I would think. I can only find a press release, not the actual study, so I'm guessing it's not been published in any peer reviewed journals yet, so any definitive headlines of "it's killing trees" is extremely overstating the case. No mention in the press release of any control group, only that the trees were exposed to different frequencies (all in the wifi range) at 100mW, 50cm away. No idea if that's a reasonable power output for wifi. Also doesn't specify if it was directly concentrated at the tree or normal distribution of signal.
Interestingly, Gawker got a quote from the Dutch Antennebureau: ""There are no far-reaching conclusions from the results. Based on the information now available, it can not be concluded that the WiFi radio signals lead to damage to trees or other plants." - so yeah, basically a completely non-news story aimed at getting more funding for future studies, I'm guessing.
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