We're back with another re-record! In this episode, Harini illuminates (see what we did there?) the once deadly fad of Radium-226. This enchanting, glowing isotope became a worldwide obsession and was literally the most fashionable commodity in the 1920s. It was used in food, makeup, clothes, decor, medicine, you name it! Even having a paid occupation in Radium-226 manufacturing was extremely coveted (eg. Radium Girls). Tune in to find out how this naive obsession bred painful, and sometimes deadly, results. 

 

In this episode:

• 'Radioactive' (film) on Amazon Prime
• 'The Radium Girls' (film) starring Joey King

 

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Episode Sources: 

• Radium Girls from the Wired written by Deborah Blum
• CNN article titled "Girls: the dark times of luminous watches" by Jacopo Prisco
• NPR article titled May Keane, One of the last ‘Radium Girls’ Died at 107 by Rebecca Hersher
• How We Realized Putting Radium in Everything Was Not the Answer from the Atlantic by Taylor Orci
• Mentalfloss
• Wikipedia  
• https://www.mskcc.org/news/hot-times-radium-hospital-history-radium-therapy-msk

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