Ep. 255: nukes & nervous systems

Boffin Eileen is back! This time she's perfectly adequately (read: AMAZINGLY) answering Marko's burning questions about what the nukes can do to us, and addressing Corrigan's skepticism about regulating our nervous systems! Plus, an impromptu tribute to Catherine O'Hara. Highlights: [0:00] Eileen talks about the truly horrific effects of radiation sickness[58:40] Eileen explores how much we can regulate our own nervous systems, and what it really means to be "dysregulated" Stuff we referenced: 1. Harry Daghlian - Nuclear Museum 2. May 21, 1946: Louis Slotin Becomes Second Victim of “Demon Core” | American Physical Society               3. Scientist of the Day - Harry Daghlian 4. How a careless slip killed a physicist 5. The Slotin Accident: Inside the Archives – Los Alamos Historical Society 6. Medical Studies of the Demon Core Victims 7. The Los Alamos Accident, 1958 8. The Cecil Kelley Criticality Accident9. https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-health-effects Autonomic Nervous System: What It Is, Function & Disorders Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS): What It Is & Function Parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS): What It Is & Function Stress, Adaptation, and Disease: Allostasis and Allostatic Load - McEWEN - 1998 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library The Window of Tolerance: What It Is and Why It Matters Expanding the Window of Tolerance: 6 PDFs & Worksheets What We Get Wrong About the Nervous Syste...