Add another notch to my 'Lore: Disturbing' chart.

[camwyn]

Questions I have been asked out of the blue, and been able to answer within a matter of minutes:

- "If someone gets a radioactive iodine thyroid scan and finds out they're in the first trimester of a pregnancy in the process, what danger is the baby in?"
- "If someone had a miscarriage due to trisomy 14, does that mean they're at increased risk of miscarriages for later pregnancies?"
- "What kind of destruction could reasonably be expected if someone set off a one-megaton nuke in the middle of Hoboken?"
- And as of yesterday, "How many eyes do scorpions have?"

(For reference: it depends on where in the first trimester, and also on whether it's a diagnostic dose or a therapeutic dose, because the therapeutic dose is much higher and because if it's early enough in the pregnancy the baby doesn't have its own thyroid yet so there's nothing to uptake the iodine; a trisomy 14 miscarriage does not correlate to any increase in risk of future miscarriages although any future miscarriages for the couple have a greater chance of being due to another trisomy; depends on whether you mean from the heat, the pressure wave, or the irradiation, also whether you're setting it off at ground level or in air and whether you're doing it in the town center or at the waterfront; and six to twelve per scorpion, depends on which species.)

Comments

[derien]

Wow. And you don't take part in Nano? You'd be a useful resource to them.

[camwyn]

In all honesty I did have to do a bit of research for each of these, but the fact that I knew enough about the subjects to be the person to ask, and that I knew where and how to start looking, is something of a point of pride for me. I've never done NaNo, but I'm nearly always happy to help with Lore: Disturbing stuff like this.