Where the Weird Things Are

Episode 15 - Radium Girls: It's Probably Not Syphilis


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It's been too long but we're BACK, and this one's a doozy. Brittany and Thurlow tell you the gruesome true story of the Radium Girls.

Sources:

https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Cleanup&id=0200772#bkground

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/radium-girls-radioactive-paint/index.html ..https://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-one-of-the-last-radium-girls-dies-at-107

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2019/03/radium-girls-living-dead-women/

https://njwomenshistory.org/discover/biographies/katherine-schaub/

Time article, June 4 1928 -

Time article - August 11, 1930


Music by Alena Smirnova: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qFfB2WYgJNvsTVLoo3ngF?si=305f46c547734686
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