Listen closely and you can hear your brain sizzle.

From GQ: “The only honest way to think of our cell phones is that they are tiny, low-power microwave ovens, without walls, that we hold against the sides of our heads.”

Picture your brain as a frozen burrito – unevenly heated, but bubbling just the same – every time you update Facebook from your iphone. Not a persuasive image?

Then read this. If everything in these two stories (both by the same author, covering much the same ground) were true – if you accepted these claims as true, or even plausible – would it change the way you use your mobile?

Would you, as the GQ illustration recommends, come to think of your handset as you would a pack of cigarettes? And then begin the enlightened  smoker’s rear-guard actions? (No using the phone in the house. Never around children. Not in hospitals or schools. Etc.)

Or is your relationship with your mobile so fulfilling that you’re happy to just let it ride and see what the vibrating future brings?

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