Poisonous alchemy, portable music, and thoughts

Vigilante Espresso posted pictures from a BBC news story about a gold-mining village in Nigeria. In poisonous reverse transmutation, when the gold is processed, lead dust is released, and many of the children in the village suffer from severe lead poisoning.

The thing I noticed, though, was that the boy shown doing some of the gold processing is wearing earbuds--doubtless listening to music.



How many thoughts that provokes--on the ubiquity and affordability of this portable music technology, fo...