406: True Urban Legends

406: True Urban Legends

Apr 23, 2010

Can a rat crawl through your plumbing and end up in your toilet? Can your cell phone give you a brain tumor? Download a transcript or read much more information about our Steve Poizner story. Christopher Ketcham's GQ cell article is here.

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Do cell phones give people brain tumors? Ira speaks with Christopher Ketcham, who wrote an article on this subject for GQ magazine. (12 minutes)

Another article on the subject appears in the current issue of Harper's Magazine.
Cancer • Health Care/Medicine • Science
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A New York City manhole cover on the same block in East Harlem where, in 1935, a group of teenaged boys found something most New Yorkers assume is just a myth: An alligator in the sewer.