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Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Apple produces the world-famous Macintosh computers and family of ipods. Although we could not find data on Apple's toxic emissions for where its computers or other electronics gear are manufactured, since October 2002 Apple has partnered with the City of Cupertino—home of Apple's worldwide headquarters?to develop an electronics recycling program. Through this program, the city's residents can return their used or unwanted computer systems and selected home electronics (regardless of manufacturer) to Apple's Cupertino recycling collection facility.

Apple is now taking back ipods, according to Barbara Kyle of the SVTC, because these products contain the same kinds of highly toxic materials you'll find in a home computer, but they are small enough that people will actually throw them into trash cans. "The design is also poor," she said. The battery wears out somewhat quickly, sometimes within a year, then it is $100 to replace it.

Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind Rick Levy and Lou Aronica See book keywords and concepts

The first level consists of the outer distractions: traffic congestion, the weather, ipods, radio, TV, the Xerox machine at the office, the IRS, and even something positive like the birth of a new child in the family. The second level relates to bodily distractions: your backache, your stiff neck, your indigestion, and so forth. Even the effort to breathe and keep your heart beating requires your mental energy (though you may not be consciously aware of it). Meditation silences these first two levels of distraction by cutting off the "sensory telephones" to the outside world and to the body.

RIAA Declares Using Brain to Remember Songs is Criminal Copyright Infringement (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

REPPED: (NewsTarget Satire) On the heels of the RIAA's recent decision to criminalize consumers who rip songs from albums they've purchased to their computers (or ipods), the association has now gone one step further and declared that "remembering songs" using your brain is criminal copyright infringement. "The brain is a recording device," explained RIAA president Cary Sherman. "The act of listening is an unauthorized act of copying music to that recording device, and the act of recalling or remembering a song is unauthorized playback.

Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry Stacy Malkan See book keywords and concepts

And it's not just about beauty products, it's about clothes, ipods, books, TV shows, everything," Anne said. "What needs to happen is that we have to reconnect with who we really are." Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Ken Harris admits to feeling a bit guilty about what he does for a living. As a "digital photo retoucher," he airbrushes fashion photos of the glamorous models who broadcast idealized images of beauty around the world. We know, of course, about the airbrushing. Still, it's surprising to see Harris in action in Jesse Epstein's award-winning documentary film Wet Dreams and False Images.

The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again Jack Challem See book keywords and concepts

The FUD concept succeeded so well that it is now used to sell almost every imaginable product, from tooth whiteners to paper shredders to prescription drugs. Even ipods use the fear of not looking cool as a marketing technique. Talk radio, argumentative cable news shows, and news teasers all use FUD to sell products and to keep people tuned in. If you're told there's an upcoming story affecting your health or finances, or a breaking crime story, you will probably be worried enough to listen.

The Secret History of the War on Cancer Devra Davis See book keywords and concepts

As a result, diphtheria, typhoid and tuberculosis claim far fewer lives in in dustrialized nations today than at any time in human history While some may question whether filling the world with ipods and text-messaging has made us better human beings, none can question that other achievements of modern life have allowed us to live longer and better than our grandparents. If medicine didn't vanquish lethal epidemics of the past, surely today the story is more nuanced.

Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease Dr. Sharon Moalem See book keywords and concepts

Some people accused Apple of employing planned obsolescence in the development of its superpopular ipods a few years ago—manufacturing them with batteries that only lasted for about eighteen months and couldn't be replaced, forcing consumers to buy a new model when their battery died. (Apple now has a battery replacement program, although it's tantamount to an iPod replacement program—for a small fee, they send you a new or refurbished equivalent to your now-powerless purchase.) Biogenic obsolescence—that is to say, aging—might accomplish two similar ends.

Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer Shannon Brownlee See book keywords and concepts

While many of the techniques drug companies use to market their wares are no different from those used to sell other consumer products, drugs are not like cars or ipods. They alter the body in profound ways, and they all have side effects, some worse than others. In redefining diseases, marketers have done more than sell product; they have blurred the definitions of wellness and health. They have changed the way consumers think about themselves and transformed huge numbers of formerly healthy people into patients who view themselves as sick.

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power Mark Schapiro See book keywords and concepts

In trying to imagine what happens to the millions of parts and thousands of chemical ingredients that age, decay, and slowly implode, I try to think of a Tinguely machine —miniature versions of which are in everything from ipods to DVD players, from toasters to the computer on which these words are being written. Sometimes the parts are large, like in an automobile, and sometimes infinitesi-mally small, like in a cell phone. But no matter their size, the one thing they have in common is they die. And then what happens?

Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it Sue Palmer See book keywords and concepts

In less than two decades, technology has transformed our homes: PCs, laptops, email, the worldwide web; cable, satellite and digital TV, camcorders, DVD; computer games, PlayStations, iPods; mobile phones, text messaging, camphones ... And everything happens much, much faster than it did in the past. Social changes have been no less startling.

Children are also bombarded daily with violent ideas, explicit sexual references and bad language through pop music, which they access through MTV and ipods. Again, parents are often unaware of this, because it's not the music they listen to themselves. In general, there's been a gradual escalation of gratuitous violence, antisocial behaviour and sleazy sex in the less-responsible sections of all media - and children are watching and listening to it all behind closed doors.

The iRiver PMP-100 series: A product with the typical strengths and weaknesses of Korean technology Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Yes, the battery life is much longer than that of the current ipods that play video, for example. You can get several hours of video out of these units, which gives you more opportunities to watch Brad Pitt's mouth move. The screen has excellent display qualities, but as I've said before, Korean companies are very good at hardware while falling flat when it comes to software navigation drivers. The PMP-120 or 100 series also has a blazing fast USB 2.0 interface, so the videos are copied to the unit's internal hard drive very quickly.

DVD copy warnings, movie studio paranoia, and the effort to turn customers into criminals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

For example, studios don't like you copying movies to your portable media players, PSPs or ipods. As a result, they're losing out on billions of dollars of revenue. Let's face it: I'm not the only one who would be willing to pay for downloadable movies as long as the process was fairly straightforward and they didn't treat me like a criminal from the get-go. Movie, recording and even audio book industries missed the boat as far as customer satisfaction In a similar vein, there is an audio book company called Audible.com, and this company has missed the boat, as well.

Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D. See book keywords and concepts

We fear that millions of teenagers and young adults may be setting themselves up for tinnitus and other forms of hearing loss by exposing themselves to high volume levels while listening to ipods and other music devices. There are so many loud noises in our environment that the cumulative effect can damage our ears and increase our risk of tinnitus. We're talking about everyday things in our lives like blenders, vacuum cleaners, motorcycles, leaf blowers, and lawn mowers. All of them are loud and can contribute to hearing problems. • • • Q. / have just developed a hissing sound in my ears.

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