These days, you can get cancer from just about everything: Junk food, "health food," sunlight, and mobile phones. Don't look now, but Wi-Fi may be raising your chances of getting the dreaded disease as well.

Concerned members of the scientific community, education professionals, and parents have been pushing for a real study that focuses on the possible health consequences of the system. The latest and biggest member of the plight is no less than Sir William Stewart, who is most famous for his work regarding the probe on mobile phone radiation and what threats it poses to human health.

Wi-Fi, or wireless network connections, make use of signals emitted by wireless adapters and routers to send data and facilitate internet access without the use of cables. However, critics of the system point out that the level of radiation within the Wi-Fi field may be in excess of tolerance and may cause cancer or brain damage.

Strange illnesses have been documented in science journals involving people who work long hours in Wi-Fi perimeters. An incident of a teacher who fell ill in the Stowe School prompted the school administration to do away with their wireless network. Many other campuses in Europe have either suspended or partially decommissioned their wireless networks.

"Do we not know enough already to say, 'Stop!'?" says Professor Olle Johansson of Sweden's Karolinska Institute as he described the adverse health effects of Wi-Fi. The professor also pointed out that although there's a significant number of articles published in science journals regarding the matter, there's not a single full-scale study on it.

The Professional Association of Teachers will write next week to the office of the Secretary of State for Education to ask for a real study which will once and for all determine whether or not the system is safe to have in homes and classrooms. Action appropriate to the findings are expected to be taken by the government.

This past June The Pirate Bay torrent site's headquarters were raided by Swedish authorities. Afterwards, the site quickly rebounded and it has been in near constant operation since. The site's operators were accused by corporate interest groups like the MPAA and RIAA of being at the center of the rampant piracy which was being conducted with impunity by the users of The Pirate Bay.

While there is little argument over whether or not illegal activity was taking place, representatives of The Pirate Bay and others claim that Bit Torrent technology is used (by tracking sites like The Pirate Bay) simply to track users, establish and maintain connections between the appropriate users and then wrangle the complex algorithms necessary to get complete files distributed to the entire swarm.

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