Jack of All Graves

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 [https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/profile/harry-daghlian/] 2. May 21, 1946: Louis Slotin Becomes Second Victim of “Demon Core” | American Physical Society [https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2014/05/slotin]               3. Scientist of the Day - Harry Daghlian [https://www.lindahall.org/about/news/scientist-of-the-day/harry-daghlian/] 4. How a careless slip killed a physicist [https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230719-the-blue-flash-louis-slotin-accident-manhattan-project-oppenheimer-atomic-bomb] 5. The Slotin Accident: Inside the Archives – Los Alamos Historical Society [https://losalamoshistory.org/the-slotin-accident-inside-the-archives/] 6. Medical Studies of the Demon Core Victims [http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2024/ph241/granowitz2/] 7. The Los Alamos Accident, 1958 [https://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Los_Alamos_Accident_1958.html] 8. The Cecil Kelley Criticality Accident [https://docslib.org/doc/7660775/the-cecil-kelley-criticality-accident-the-origin-of-the-los-alamos-human-tissue-analysis-program]9. https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-health-effects [https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-health-effects] 1. Autonomic Nervous System: What It Is, Function & Disorders [https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23273-autonomic-nervous-system] 2. Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS): What It Is & Function [https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23262-sympathetic-nervous-system-sns-fight-or-flight] 3. Parasympathetic Nervous System (PSNS): What It Is & Function [https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/23266-parasympathetic-nervous-system-psns] 4. Stress, Adaptation, and Disease: Allostasis and Allostatic Load - McEWEN - 1998 - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - Wiley Online Library [https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb09546.x?sid=nlm%3Apubmed] 5. The Window of Tolerance: What It Is and Why It Matters [https://www.advancedcounselingbozeman.com/blog/the-window-of-tolerance-what-it-is-and-why-it-matters] 6. Expanding the Window of Tolerance: 6 PDFs & Worksheets [https://positivepsychology.com/window-of-tolerance/] 7. What We Get Wrong About the Nervous System | Psychology Today [https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/traumatization-and-its-aftermath/202601/what-we-get-wrong-about-the-nervous-system?msockid=1b138f56531d6a501a6499b152936b12] 8. Allostatic Load and Its Impact on Health: A Systematic Review - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32799204/] 9. Allostatic load biomarkers of chronic stress and impact on health and cognition - ScienceDirect [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763409001481?via%3Dihub] 10. Generalized Unsafety Theory of Stress: Unsafe Environments and Conditions, and the Default Stress Response - PMC [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5877009/] 11. Selection on the regulation of sympathetic nervous activity in humans and chimpanzees - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29672586/] 12. Stress and Health: A Review of Psychobiological Processes [https://www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fulltext/psych/72/1/annurev-psych-062520-122331.pdf?expires=1770324082&id=id&accname=ar-268517&checksum=B5E48B20A0DC21B902B69DE1D8B8EE83] 13. Neuronal regulation of immunity: why, how and where? | Nature Reviews Immunology [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-0387-1] 14. Unraveling the Plastic Peripheral Neuroimmune Interactome | The Journal of Immunology | Oxford Academic [https://academic.oup.com/jimmunol/article/204/2/257/7943763?login=true] 15. Psychoneuroimmunology: An Introduction to Immune-to-Brain Communication and Its Implications for Clinical Psychology [https://www.annualreviews.org/docserver/fulltext/clinpsy/19/1/annurev-clinpsy-080621-045153.pdf?expires=1770319312&id=id&accname=guest&checksum=23C241082DBAB158B85E8F2B1568A043] 16. 20-Year Journey from Axonal Injury to Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Prospect of Immunotherapy for Combating Alzheimer’s Disease | The Journal of Immunology | Oxford Academic [https://academic.oup.com/jimmunol/article/204/2/243/7943945?login=true] 17. Hypertension and its correlation with autonomic nervous system dysfunction, heart rate variability and chronic inflammation - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39311457/] 18. Dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system predicts the development of the metabolic syndrome - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23553857/] 19. Autonomic nervous system dysregulation in neurodegenerative diseases: Bridging brain and heart - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40681226/] 20. Heart rate variability (HRV) as a way to understand associations between the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and affective states: A critical review of the literature - ScienceDirect [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167876023004853?via%3Dihub] 21. Autonomic nervous system dysregulation in neurodegenerative diseases: Bridging brain and heart - ScienceDirect [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/chapter/bookseries/pii/S0079612325000561?via%3Dihub] 22. The efficacy of stress reappraisal interventions on stress responsivity: A meta-analysis and systematic review of existing evidence - PubMed [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30811484/] 23. The Autistic and ADHD Nervous System | NDI [https://neurodivergentinsights.com/autistic-adhd-nervous-system/?srsltid=AfmBOopnLv-y4t0qapGFgzror1eu-wcXBCK6xl4XiR8L_5TFcIVA-QIs] 24. Effects of slow-paced breathing and humming breathing on heart rate variability and affect: a pilot investigation [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40482984/]  25. Humming (Simple Bhramari Pranayama) as a Stress Buster: A Holter-Based Study to Analyze Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Parameters During Bhramari, Physical Activity, Emotional Stress, and Sleep [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37193427/]  26. Breathwork for Chronic Stress and Mental Health: Does Choosing a Specific Technique Matter? [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12372116/]  27. A randomized controlled trial of a multicomponent online stress reduction intervention in inflammatory bowel disease [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9520184/]  28. The role of yoga in inflammatory markers [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8842003/]  29. From Dysregulation to Coherence: Exploring the HeartMath® Approach to Emotional and Physiological Regulation - PMC [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12722655/] 30. Acute effects of different Tai Chi practice protocols on cardiac autonomic modulation [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38448570/] 31. Mind over Matter: Reappraising Arousal Improves Cardiovascular and Cognitive Responses to Stress [https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3410434/pdf/nihms324194.pdf]

Ep. 254: true crime grift & zombie d**k

A miscommunication leads to us having to wing this episode, and it sure goes all over the place! Corrigan revisits the claims of the Killer in the Code podcast, Marko discusses nuclear war, and we preview the next two REALLY COOL episodes we've got coming. HIGHLIGHTS: [0:00] Corrigan gives an update on the Killer in the Code podcast [32:08] CoRri was a pukey child and we discuss pukey Garbage Pail Kids, [41:50] We preview some incredible episodes we have coming up the next two weeks! [58:28] What we watched: Feast, Man Bites Dog, Taxi Driver, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Train Dreams

Ep. 253: death on mt. hood

The snow in New Jersey this weekend is magical... so Corrigan brings the mood down by talking about a field trip that turned deadly during a blizzard on Oregon's Mt. Hood. HIGHLIGHTS: [0:00] Corrigan tells Marko about an ill-fated field trip to Oregon's Mt. Hood [53:34] We talk like youth pastors, discuss this week's current events [01:08:40] Book club things and don't forget to mark the weekend of August 8th on your calendar for the UK meetup! [01:21:00] What we watched! (A House of Dynamite, Chain Reactions, A Hole in the Head, The Rip, Beast of War, Phantom of the Paradise) STUFF WE REFERENCED: * Deadliest Avalanches In History [https://www.worldatlas.com/natural-disasters/deadliest-avalanches-in-history.html] * Mt. Hood Climb Observance Day [https://www.oes.edu/student-life/community-life/mt-hood-climb-observance-day] * Mount Hood's Deadliest Disaster [https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/exploration-survival/mount-hood-disaster-1986/?mode=fullscreen&scope=initial] * In 1986, 9 died on Mount Hood. Now, Oregon private school irked that parent wrote about it [https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2018/10/mount_hood_tragedy_revisited.html] * TWO CLIMBERS MAY HAVE SURVIVED BECAUSE OF POSITIONS IN SNOW CAVE [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/17/us/two-climbers-may-have-survived-because-of-positions-in-snow-cave.html] * Improper Decision — Failure to Turn Back, Fatigue, Exposure, Hypothermia, Inadequate Equipment, Weather, Failure to Follow Route, Oregon, Mount Hood [https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/13198706500/Improper-Decision-Failure-to-Turn-Back-Fatigue-Exposure-Hypothermia-Inadequate-Equipment-Weather-Failure-to-Follow-Route-Oregon-Mount-Hood] * Peace and pain 30 years after Oregon Episcopal School's Mount Hood disaster [https://www.oregonlive.com/living/2016/05/mount_hood_accident.html] * A Hole in the Head (1998) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4KgDN617oE]

Ep. 252: thinking about death and also america

Hard to believe it's only the 10th of January after the week the U.S. has had. We have a talk about it, but not before Marko talks about a people who revere death, we discuss death in kids' media, and we dig into whether there's a conspiracy to make people scared of normal weather in the U.K. HIGHLIGHTS: [0:00] Marko tells Corrigan about the Toraja people of Indonesia, who have an intimate relationship with death [29:57] Mark thinks the UK media is making everyone freak out about the weather, which leads to a discussion of the attention economy and studies on what short form video is doing to our brains, and questions about why the Daily Mail has it out for deadly Asian hornets [54:30] Marko tries to understand American field sobriety tests [01:05:40] What we watched: Poltergeist, Man Finds Tape, 9-1-1, Aliens, Predator: Badlands [01:33:35] What the fuck is going on in the U.S.?

Ep. 251: teenage nazi killers

Why not start out the year inspired? This week Corrigan tells Marko the story of Hannie Schaft and the Oversteegen Sisters, teenage badasses who seduced and killed Nazis. Plus, for good measure, we answer some burning listener questions! HIGHLIGHTS: [0:00] Corrigan tells Marko the story of Hannie Schaft and Truus and Freddie Oversteegen [39:50] Momentous occasions in what we watched! (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Greener Grass, Gremlins, Anaconda (2024), Fantastic Planet [01:10:06] Answering listener questions! STUFF WE REFERENCED: * Seducing and Killing Nazis [https://gibsonsbookstore.com/book/9789083003405] by Sophie Polderman (book) * As Teenagers, These Sisters Resisted the Nazis. Here’s What They Taught Me About Doing the Right Thing [https://time.com/5661142/dutch-resistance-friendship/] * Hannie Schaft, the redheaded girl [https://www.tracesofwar.com/articles/2920/Hannie-Schaft.htm] * Meet Hannie Schaft, The World War II Resistance Hero Who Terrified The Nazis [https://allthatsinteresting.com/hannie-schaft] * The Most Want­ed Woman in WWII Nether­lands: Han­nie Schaft [https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/the-most-wanted-woman-in-wwii-netherlands-hannie-schaft] * This Teenager Killed Nazis With Her Sister During WWII [https://www.history.com/articles/dutch-resistance-teenager-killed-nazis-freddie-oversteegen] * The Fascinating Story of The Teenage Girls Who Killed Nazis: Freddie and Truus Oversteegen [https://cvltnation.com/freddie-and-truus-oversteegen/] * Remembering a Dutch Partisan [https://jacobin.com/2016/07/truus-menger-oversteegen-nazi-resistance-dutch-communist-partisans/]