Hey y'all. We are getting radioactive this week and telling the story of the Radium Girls. This will be the last episode for a couple months but we will return in November with (maybe) an episode from Forrest! Settle in for an information dump folks and bye bye for now:)

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References:

• Radium Girls: Living Dead Women by Arlene Balkansky https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/03/radium-girls-living-dead-women/
• This Day in History- Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium ​​https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/curies-isolate-radium
• Marie and Pierre Curie and the discovery of polonium and radium by Nanny Froman https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/themes/marie-and-pierre-curie-and-the-discovery-of-polonium-and-radium/
• Medical Mysteries: Radium Girls part 1 & 2
• The Story Of The Radium Girls And Their Decades-Long Fight For Justice By Richard Stockton https://allthatsinteresting.com/radium-girls/4
• Radium Girls: The dark times of luminous watches by Jacopo Prisco, CNN ​​ https://www.cnn.com/style/article/radium-girls-radioactive-paint/index.html
• Radium Girls By Bill Kovarik and Mark Neuzil https://environmentalhistory.org/people/radiumgirls/
• MFM 190- Lick the Clock- Georgia’s story