{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Paul Truesdell Podcast","title":"Radiation","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":430,"description":"Think About It\nConnecting the dots with clear-eyed forecasting and practical wealth advice and management. Rational. Calm. Built for a mature audience that wants facts, not noise.Think about it.\nFor most of our lives, radiation has been a scare word. The movies taught it. The news stories taught it. The school lessons taught it. Radiation was pure poison, the thing that turned people into monsters or gave them cancer overnight. A whole generation of us grew up believing it was the worst thing on earth. Here is the simple truth.\nWe cannot live without radiation. Not one day. Not one hour. Radiation is energy moving through space. That is the whole definition, and nothing more. It covers a wide family of energies, some of them gentle and some of them strong, and telling them apart is the whole job. So let me start with where you are sitting right now.\nRight now, sitting in your chair, radiation is hitting you. The light in the room is radiation. The warmth coming off your coffee cup is radiation. The radio signal bringing the ball game or the news is radiation. The glow from your television screen is radiation. You just survived another paragraph of it, the same as every day of your life.\nNot all radiation is the same. Think of it like different notes on a piano. The low soft notes are radio waves. They are long and slow, and they have been passing through our bodies since before most of us were born. Few of us ever noticed a thing. Move a little higher up the keyboard and the notes change.\nA little higher are the microwaves. Your phone uses those, and so does your kitchen oven. Those energies make water jiggle, and jiggling makes heat. That is how the oven warms your soup. Higher still is the heat you feel coming off the sun or a warm stove. Then comes the tiny slice we call visible light.\nEvery sunset you ever watched. Every face of a grandchild you ever smiled at. All of that sits on basically one single note of the whole piano. Everything else on the keyboard...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/115-XsjkdwCpJ99xv-8oZ76t6jr8ScWEC5MYSKzL0ig/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82MTUx/OWRiNTc0NTk0Y2Nk/M2VjYTliMGVhN2Zm/YTZkZi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}