{"id":181,"date":"2002-03-15T23:10:44","date_gmt":"2002-03-15T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2011-03-20T21:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T20:13:44","slug":"antennas-or-gorillas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Antennas or Gorillas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Antennas of cellphones will become very small soon, as reported by the <a title=\"2002 article NYT Shrinking the Old Vertical Antenna\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2002\/03\/07\/technology\/circuits\/07NEXT.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a> (reg. req.). I hope they will be fabricated with other stuff then the  present ones. Arthur C. Clarke, SF writer, and Leonardo di Caprio,  patrons of the <a title=\"Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gorillas.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund<\/a>, are <a title=\"The Dian Fossey Story by leonardodicaprio.org, from Archive.org\" href=\"http:\/\/replay.waybackmachine.org\/20040408050254\/http:\/\/www.leonardodicaprio.org\/gorilla\/dfgf.html\" target=\"_blank\">pointing to the thread<\/a> to the forests of Eastern Congo, home of the gorilla, where 80% of the Coltan ore comes from that is used in antennas! I guess that the <a title=\"2001 BBC article on Congo War\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/world\/africa\/newsid_1136000\/1136470.stm\" target=\"_blank\">continuous political instability<\/a> of this region has also to do with these scarce material.  And what about Mugabe and his involvement in Congo, and thus his urge to  remain in power in Zimbabwe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antennas of cellphones will become very small soon, as reported by the NY Times (reg. req.). I hope they will be fabricated with other stuff then the present ones. Arthur C. Clarke, SF writer, and Leonardo di Caprio, patrons of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/?p=181\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lindosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}