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Derek Thompson - Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the website.
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He is a visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget at the New America Foundation. Derek has also written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.

Cell Phones are Good for Your Brain

By Derek Thompson
Jan 7 2010, 10:40 AM ET Comment

Do cell phones give you cancer? The jury is still out. Do cell phones help prevent Alzheimer's? The jury is in. They do!



I was going to make a point about how modern technology's insistence on perpetual communication continues to show benefits on multitasking and memory. But it turns out that it's the cell phone radiation that boosted memory in mice in a recent study.

That said, this is a remarkable sentence:

Previous studies have linked exposure to radiation omitted by cell phones to increased risk of brain cancer, but this latest study finds that there could be a silver lining.

A silver lining? To cancer? There must have been a better way to word this.

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