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Chuck Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Oh, man.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

The mental picture was astounding.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

It just came over me.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

All right.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

So we mentioned earlier on people that move there that suffer from what's called electromagnetic hypersensitivity.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

This may be where you have read about it or seen news reports because there's a woman named Diane Schau, I guess, S-H-O-W.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

who has been there for a long time, and she's basically the most, kind of the foremost sufferer of EHS.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

She moved to the NRQZ a while ago, got 14 acres near Green Bank, founded the Wave Analysis Verification Research, not a center?

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

No, because then it would be wavered.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

I guess so, but it's a nonprofit.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

And basically she went there to live more healthily for her own needs and to also do research on the disease and also help –

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

bring people in and educate and care for people with the disease.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

And the idea is that people are super sensitive, obviously, to electromagnetic waves and they feel like it gets them sick, headaches, nausea, dizziness, chest pain, hair loss.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

And I say feels like because it's never been proven that this is a real thing.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Yeah, for sure.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

And either way, in either case, it's really great that Diane Shaw and whoever has met her and followed her there have a place to go where it is quiet for them, you know?

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

Oh, I did not see that show.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

It's still on the long list.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

But I thought you were going to say Julianne Moore and the Todd Haynes film safe.

Stuff You Should Know
Doin’ Science in the National Radio Quiet Zone

But that was a little different.