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Glowing From The Inside: Radium Beauty-5 Minute Friday

“Here are the first toilet preparations to embody actual radium, an astonishing new force for betterment, applied as an aid to beauty.” The early 20th century was a strange and optimistic time. In the years following Marie and Pierre Curie’s discovery of radium, the world became obsessed with this …

Episode Revisit: The Radium Girls

Today we are revisiting a tragic case of negligence which originally captivated us back in 2024.  When Marie and Pierre Curie discovered radium in 1898, the chemical element was quickly adopted by manufacturers for its luminescent properties that would go on to be used in, among other things, the …

197. Radium Girls: The Dark Side of Trust

In this podcast episode, we’re learning about the Radium Girls, the young women who painted luminous watch and instrument dials in the United States during the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s, and whose work became one of the most devastating workplace safety scandals in modern industrial history.  We’re ex…

Marie Curie: The Count

Marie Curie died in 1934 knowing radium almost entirely as the thing that killed her. She never saw what it became. The Archivist tells her. That the force she discovered is now one of medicine's chief weapons against cancer. That the mobile X-ray she once drove to the wounded in a war became the i…

Fall Asleep to the Complete Story of Marie Curie: Her Life, Scientific Discoveries, and Lasting Legacy in European History

Fall asleep to the inspiring story of Marie Curie, the trailblazing physicist and chemist who changed the course of modern science. In this soothing bedtime podcast episode, we explore Curie's journey from her early life in partitioned Poland—where she bravely pursued education at the clandestine F…