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Continuing on my previous post, the widespread use of mobile phones is also another reason for concern. But here it is more likely the diversity of information rather than the lack of it that makes things so difficult. It is very difficult for the layman to get a good opinion on how dangerous mobile radiation actually is, when there keeps popping out new and contradictory reports all the time.

- “Mobile phones cause cancer…”
- “..yes, but only in rats.”
- “Actually they are completely safe” (report incidentally sponsored by mobile phone company X - whoops!)

There’s no denying how practical devices mobile phones are - many people could almost not do without them today - but I think we need to know more about the long term effects of them.

It is not difficult to understand that the mobile phone companies will fight any attempt to ruin their business, including reports that would deem their products hazardous to our health.

However, I think it is time we (as a human race) stopped worshipping the God of economical growth above all else. Things with the environment for example, are already catching up with us and unless we start making some changes we are only setting ourselves up for a nasty fall.

Exercising your brain by playing Sudoku, solving crossword puzzles is generally believed to improve your memory and even prevent certain deceases such as Alzheimer. Other types of gentle exercise and fresh air are also considered great preventive measures.

It comes as no surprise that watching television would do very little to give you any kind of exercise (unless you are watching an exercise tape of course), but according to some studies watching too much television may actually cause Alzheimer.

According to professors at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, people tend to be in a mentally very inactive state when they watch television - and we all know what eventually happens to any body part that is too inactive…

What is not quite as well known however, is the various kinds of radiation emitted from your trusty old television set. According to a study conducted by Eugene Sobel in 1995, there may very well be a causal relationship between these types of radiation and developing Alzheimer disease.

I am not advocating anyone to throw out their tv-set, but it would certainly be interesting to know more about this subject. Is there any difference as to the type of television, for example…

Meanwhile though, I think it is relatively safe to keep Sudokuing

Tags: Sudoku, Alzheimer, Neuroscience, Health, tv, entertainment, news

My new Sudoku guide has been available for a little over a week now, and I have received some good feed back from the early buyers.

However, there seems to still be some bugs in the payment processing system, that has caused problems from some. To clarify, once payment has been completed in Paypal, you need to click the “return to merchant link” and that should send you to the correct page to download the complete Sudoku guide.

Now is a good time to purchase this 60 page guide to Sudoku, since it is available at a 25% discount until the last of Novemeber.

Here is an interesting clip (with a rather energetic host), that contains some interesting notes about the game of Sudoku.

Although this clip from mobuzztv begins by being a little mean with Sylvester Stallone, after about a minute, there is an interesting piece of news about the first national Sudoku championship held in the UK - the women absolutely kicked the mens but in this sudoku competition.

Well, there you go!

Although the men clearly outnumbered the women in this sudoku competition, an 18 year old woman ended up victorious, not to mention the fact the amount of women outnumbered the men in the finals. Hmm, maybe this has something to do with the aledged better multi-tasking capability of women…

The notes about Sudoku not being math, but that math and logic are basically the same or at least very similar, where also rather interesting.

As far as women being logical or Stallone making another Rocky - I’ll keep my opinions to myself