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The Anxiety Encyclopedia

The Anxiety Encyclopedia

By: Lorien Megill and Katharine McNally
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 Co-hosts Lorien and Katharine talk about what's making them anxious, from bears to Botox and everything in between.Lorien Megill and Katharine McNally
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  • 133. M is for Microplastics

    133. M is for Microplastics
    Sep 2 2025

    Katharine has big concerns about tiny plastics.


    Sources:

    • https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/microplastics.html
    • https://magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/microplastics-everywhere
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microplastics
    • https://apple.news/AlNT07D-cT-K1KiKXlFz1Lw
    • https://www.wired.com/story/this-startup-promises-to-clean-your-blood-of-microplastics-clarify-clinics/
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 132. T is for Three Mile Island

    132. T is for Three Mile Island
    Aug 19 2025
    Lorien gives Katharine TMI (too much information) on TMI (Three Mile Island). Sourceshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_Nuclear_Generating_Stationhttps://www.nrc.gov/reactors/power/pwrs.htmlhttps://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-power-reactors/nuclear-power-reactorshttps://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactorhttps://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-power-reactors/nuclear-power-reactors#fuelling-a-nuclear-reactorhttps://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwidehttps://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-aihttps://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html#tmiviewhttps://www.nrc.gov/info-finder/decommissioning/power-reactor/three-mile-island-unit-2.htmlhttps://www.kpbs.org/news/2019/sep/20/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-shuts-down/https://www.pennlive.com/news/2019/03/save-three-mile-island-what-a-difference-40-years-makes.htmlhttps://local21news.com/news/local/history-of-three-mile-islandhttps://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1405170/?page=5https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accidenthttps://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazines/bulletin/bull51-1/51102744649.pdfhttps://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/ines.pdfhttps://web.archive.org/web/20160814210605/https://www.facingsouth.org/2009/04/investigation-revelations-about-three-mile-island-disaster-raise-doubts-over-nuclear-plant-shttps://wx1.ans.org/pi/resources/sptopics/tmi/faq.phphttps://www.newsweek.com/do-people-still-work-three-mile-island-live-middletown-pennsylvania-netflix-1704265https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/nuclear-power-plants.phphttps://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-is-nuclear-energy-the-science-of-nuclear-powerhttps://www.nationalgrid.com/stories/energy-explained/what-nuclear-energy-and-why-it-considered-clean-energyhttps://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/nuclear-power-and-the-environment.phphttps://www.nrc.gov/waste/high-level-waste.htmlhttps://greenamerica.org/fight-dirty-energy/amazon-build-cleaner-cloud/10-reasons-oppose-nuclear-energyhttps://greenamerica.org/fight-dirty-energy/amazon-build-cleaner-cloud/10-reasons-oppose-nuclear-energyhttps://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-nuclear-fuel
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • 131. R is for Red Scare

    131. R is for Red Scare
    Aug 5 2025

    Katharine tells Lorien not about that one other podcast but about the red scare in the US in the 1920s, 40s, and 50s (we were a little busy in the 1930s).


    Sources:

    Sources:

    • https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-democrats-enemies-within-rcna175628
    • https://www.newsweek.com/trump-reacts-zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-primary-win-2090781
    • https://apnews.com/article/trump-communist-judges-tariff-china-russia-cae626a3699a5411841f646a847c2c7b
    • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/retread-scare-trump-and-other-republicans-evoke-another-era-by-calling-democrats-communists
    • https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/
    • https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/mccarthyism-red-scare#:~:text=%5BThe%20American%20Heritage%20Dictionary%20gives,in%20order%20to%20suppress%20opposition.%5D
    • https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/mccarthy-more-than-just-a-man/#:~:text=For%20several%20years%20before%20Joseph,Supreme%20Court%20Justice%2C%20William%20O.
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcuYybbehAo
    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism
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    1 hr and 3 mins
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