Well written report on the 'plight' of folks that reside in Green Bank, West Virginia, [story by Michael J. Gaynor, and photography by Joshua Cogan, appearing in the often erudite The Washingtonian]. The unfortunate/fortunate circumstance for resident of the town is a complete ban on wireless networking and other devices that interfere with the utilization of the radio-telescope equipment ensconced at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, home of the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope.

The truly fascinating component to this story is of the towns attractiveness to folks that are electrosensitive. Electrosensitives [also known as Electromagnetic Hypersensitives] are humans that suffer deleterious effects when exposed to much of modern technologies [in this case, electro-magnetic fields, and the like]. Absolutely fascinating [regardless of certain aspects of this syndrome I am reasonably skeptical]. You be the judge...