# Short Wave (@shortwave)

Podcast on Boilpoints

Page: https://boilpoints.com/u/shortwave

## Latest segments

- [New US Dietary Guidelines](https://boilpoints.com/point/new_us_dietary_guidelines_3175766265), 2026-10-28: **Adds critics' calorie-math objection to guidelines**. Runs through the guideline changes as a MAHA scorecard item: higher protein, encouragement of full-fat dairy and beef tallow, and an unchanged saturated fat limit. Adds the critics' calorie-math objection, which the earlier coverage did not carry.
- [International Sauna Congress](https://boilpoints.com/point/international_sauna_congress_2319196512), 2026-10-19: **Describes the floating sauna and mood case**. Color from the Oslo harbor: a fragrance ritual and folk songs inside a floating sauna, then the case for mood benefits through social connection, nature, digital detox and a skin-heat-to-brain pathway. Stays inside the congress color already on the record.
- [International Sauna Congress](https://boilpoints.com/point/international_sauna_congress_2319196512), 2026-10-19: **Walks through the cardiovascular evidence**. Walks through the cardiovascular and metabolic case for heat: blood pressure, arterial stiffness, blood sugar and cholesterol, plus Ant Shepard's exercise-mimetic framing and Eric Lee's randomized trial adding sauna to exercise. It stays inside the symposium's evidence review rather than adding a development.
- [International Sauna Congress](https://boilpoints.com/point/international_sauna_congress_2319196512), 2026-10-19: **Reports the field's hundred-plus protocols**. Reports from the Norway gathering on the field's disarray: one scientist counted over a hundred protocols across heat studies, and Ashley Mason's Sauna Research Foundation is leading a consensus push on definitions and measurements.
- [Pike execution fails](https://boilpoints.com/point/pike_execution_fails_3680529402), 2026-10-07: **Walks through pentobarbital and past autopsies**. Van Norman walks through how pentobarbital works and why it is not a humane anesthetic, then widens to past botched executions - Diaz, Lockett - and the autopsies she has reviewed. The Pike case is the frame, but the segment's new material is the autopsy record and the closing news that Pike has regained consciousness.
- [Pike execution fails](https://boilpoints.com/point/pike_execution_fails_3680529402), 2026-10-07: **Plays Van Norman's prediction the IV would fail**. Opens on Christa Pike surviving her lethal injection in Tennessee, then plays anesthesiologist Gail Van Norman's pre-execution testimony that the IV would fail and the drug would go around the vein. Van Norman says the only thing she did not predict is that Pike would live.