Cell Phone Radiation, Why It’s OK to Contaminate Other Worlds, and Types of Human Goals (Podcast)

Learn about how human goals fall into 4 categories; why NASA’s Planetary Protection Independent Review Board (PPRIB) says we don’t need to be so careful about infecting other worlds; and whether cell phone radiation is actually dangerous.



In this podcast, Cody Gough [ and Ashley Hamer [ discuss the following story from Curiosity.com [ about why a NASA panel says we don’t need to be so careful about infecting other worlds:



Additional sources discussed:



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– Psychologists analyze language to categorize human goals | EurekaAlert! —

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– Lexical Derivation of the PINT Taxonomy of Goals: Prominence, Inclusiveness, Negativity Prevention, and Tradition | The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College — [

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– Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for Cellular Telephones | Federal Communications Commission —

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– The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation | Forbes —

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Originally posted to on November 22, 2019.

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