{"id":6735,"date":"2013-12-17T07:32:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-17T12:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=6735"},"modified":"2013-12-17T07:54:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T12:54:16","slug":"your-wireless-router-could-be-murdering-your-houseplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/your-wireless-router-could-be-murdering-your-houseplants\/","title":{"rendered":"Your wireless router could be murdering your houseplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dead_office_plants.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6736\" alt=\"dead_office_plants\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dead_office_plants-300x199.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dead_office_plants-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dead_office_plants.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a>Are you slowly killing your houseplants? Probably! But there might be a reason (other than neglect) why they\u2019re all yellow and wilty: your Wi-Fi router.<\/p>\n<p>An experiment by a handful of high school students in Denmark has sparked some serious international interest in the scientific community.<\/p>\n<p>Five ninth-grade girls at Hjallerup School in North Jutland, Denmark, noticed they had trouble concentrating after sleeping with their mobile phones at their bedsides. They tried to figure out why. The school obviously doesn\u2019t have the equipment to test human brain waves, so the girls decided to do a more rudimentary experiment.<\/p>\n<p>They placed six trays of garden cress seeds next to Wi-Fi routers that emitted roughly the same microwave radiation as a mobile phone. Then they placed six more trays of seeds in a separate room without routers. The girls controlled both environments for room temperature, sunlight and water.<\/p>\n<p>After 12 days, they found the garden cress seeds&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readability.com\/articles\/juyiabrg\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Read the rest of this article here&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you slowly killing your houseplants? Probably! But there might be a reason (other than neglect) why they\u2019re all yellow and wilty: your Wi-Fi router. An experiment by a handful of high school students in Denmark has sparked some serious international interest in the scientific community. Five ninth-grade girls at Hjallerup School in North Jutland, Denmark, noticed they\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/your-wireless-router-could-be-murdering-your-houseplants\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1426],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6738,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6735\/revisions\/6738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}