The Anxiety Encyclopedia

Lorien just wants surgeons to be perfect. Is that so much to ask?

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Katharine tells Lorien about how a democracy might backslide into authoritarianism. They consider an alternate life path for Lorien, heading up an authoritarian regime.

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-       https://commonslibrary.org/authoritarianism-how-you-know-it-when-you-see-it/

-       https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2018/jan/21/this-is-how-democracies-die

-       https://newrepublic.com/article/183866/americans-want-authoritarian-president-trump

-       https://www.vox.com/politics/361136/far-right-authoritarianism-germany-reactionary-spirit

-       https://jeffreyianross.medium.com/how-do-democracies-slip-into-authoritarianism-5756f54c17a5

-       https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/28/who-likes-authoritarianism-and-how-do-they-want-to-change-their-government/

-       https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/how-did-adolf-hitler-happen

-      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism#:~:text=Broadly%20defined%2C%20authoritarian%20states%20include,least%20once%20following%20free%20elections.

-       https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c977njnvq2do

Lorien tells Katharine about a completely relevant, very applicable anxiety.

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Katharine gives Lorien a historical speed run on book banning and what it looks like today.

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-       https://newrepublic.com/post/184672/utah-republicans-enact-extreme-school-book-ban

-       https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/books/book-ban-florida.html

-       https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/16/books/book-bans-public-schools.html

-       https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/ed-magazine/23/11/book-bans-and-librarians-who-wont-be-hushed

-       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship

-       https://smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-banned-books-in-america-180983011/

-       https://pen.org/spineless-shelves/

-       https://www.ala.org/bbooks/book-ban-data

-       https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1245037718/book-bans-2023-pen-america

-       https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/history-of-book-bans-in-the-united-states

-       https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/book-burning

-       https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/ed-magazine/23/11/book-bans-and-librarians-who-wont-be-hushed

Lorien tells Katharine about a public health threat that's 4x more deadly than shark bites.

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We promise this episode is no atmospheric drag!

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- https://payloadspace.com/astroscale-sees-its-debris/

-   https://apple.news/AMWLXbXv-S3SSTbFO1R9xrg

-  https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-space-junk-and-why-is-it-a-problem.html#:~:text=While%20there%20are%20about%202%2C000,if%20they%20hit%20something%20else.

-  https://spacenews.com/u-s-satellite-destroyed-in-space-collision/

-   https://www.space.com/space-junk-collision-chinese-satellite-yunhai-1-02

-  https://www.space.com/kessler-syndrome-space-debris

-  https://www.nprillinois.org/2024-01-25/the-surprising-threat-of-debris-in-space

-       https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/14/space-junk-nasa-european-agency/71566411007/

-       https://www.livescience.com/what-is-space-junk

-       https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4837/1

-       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVzbs81bDy0

We hope you don't acquire an allergy to our podcast after listening to Lorien tell Katharine about the lone star tick.

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Katharine gets swept up in this natural disaster; Lorien rises from her sick bed to make an extremely brave assertion: Glen Powell looks good in hats.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustnado

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_devil

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_whirl

https://www.wesh.com/article/tornado-watch-vs-tornado-warning/45521346#

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-State_tornado_outbreak

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/tornadoes

https://www.weather.gov/lmk/tornadoesfaq#:~:text=The%20vast%20majority%20of%20tornadoes,flying%20debris%20in%20the%20wind.

https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/tornadoes/faq/

https://www.britannica.com/video/191998/tornadoes

Lorien tells the story of a disaster of gigantic proportions.

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Katharine questions the validity of Reefer Madness.

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-      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_(drug)

-       https://www.healthline.com/health/is-marijuana-a-gateway-drug#takeaway

-       https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/01/24/gateway-drug-no-more-study-shows-legalizing-recreational-cannabis-does-not-increase

-       https://www.teenvogue.com/story/dare-program-reshape-image-police-officers

-       https://www.vera.org/news/fifty-years-ago-today-president-nixon-declared-the-war-on-drugs

-       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_drugs

-       https://www.history.com/news/marijuana-criminalization-reefer-madness-history-flashback

-       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_Madness

-       https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/dope/etc/cron.html

-       https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/marijuana-use-disorder

-       https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/02/401586/years-marijuana-use-linked-some-memory-problems-decades-later#:~:text=For%20every%20five%20marijuana%2Dyears,of%2015%20words%2C%20they%20found.

-       https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/15/723656629/highly-potent-weed-has-swept-the-market-raising-concerns-about-health-risks

-       https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-marijuana-bad-for-health-heres-what-we-know-so-far/