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back side of the declaration of independence. and so he has to deal the declaration of independence. not just because he wants the treasure map written in invisible ink on the other side. not just because of that. but because the bad guys have followed the same set of clues that he followed. they have figured out the same secret as him and the bad guys are going to steal the declaration of independence for bad reasons so the good guy has to steal it before they can get to it. that's the plot. at least i think that's the basic plot. there is something about freemasons and pyramids, to...

And so even if you don't know much about how minerals work in the body, because we have all been eating iodized table salt for a while, we all kind of know this connection between this mineral iodine and the thyroid gland. well, turns out the other circumstance in which that is a handy thing to know is the circumstance of radioactive fallout. in the event of a nuclear disaster, a nuclear blast, a dirty bomb, a bomb laced with radioactive material or leak or explosion at a nuclear power plant, there is a few different kinds of radioactive particles that are likely to be released. cesium and str...

We need iodine, but to get it we need to ingest it. we need to get it from food or from some kind of supplement. and about 100 years ago we started adding iodine to this commonly used thing, to table salt in this country, because broadly speaking, americans weren't getting enough iodine on our own. many people had deficiencies. the result of that was lots of people were having thyroid problems. the thyroid gland is the part of the body that takes in iodine. if you have an iodine deficiency, that causes thyroid-related problems which can be very serious health consequences. once they starting a...

Weren't getting enough iodine on our own. many people had deficiencies. people were having thyroid problems. the part of the body that takes in iodine. if you have an iodine deficiency, that causes thyroid-related problems which can be very serious health consequences. once they starting adding it to table salt it had a big public effect. thyroid problems related to iodine deficiency plummeted. that's why our table salt is iodized to this day. causes no harm and lots of good. and so even if you don't know much about how minerals work in the body, because we have all been eating iodized table s...

Strontium and cesium are terrible. but the most common isotopes associated with a nuclear power plant catastrophe are two different kinds of radioactive iodine. and we know from our, you know, elementary school level table salt understanding of basic biology that it's the thyroid that takes up iodine in the body. and that's where this matters. in the event of a radiation disaster where people are exposed to radioactive fallout, one of the immediate and most common risks is lots of people will get thyroid cancer because one of the most common things released in radioactive fallout are radioacti...