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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

1. 
   Autonomic Nervous System: What It Is, Function & Disorders


2. Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS): What It Is & Function


3. Parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS): What It Is & Function


4. Stress, Adaptation, and Disease: Allostasis and Allostatic Load - McEWEN - 1998 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library


5. The Window of Tolerance: What It Is and Why It Matters


6. Expanding the Window of Tolerance: 6 PDFs & Worksheets


7. What We Get Wrong About the Nervous Syste...