Episode 1: Glow

Written By Aaron Mahnke

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  3. “The Blessings of Radium Water Made His Head Disintegrate.” Medium, Lessons from History, 18 Mar. 2019, medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-blessings-of-radium-water-made-his-head-disintegrate-3ac052cb8620.

  4. “The Curies Discover Radium.” History Today, History Today Ltd. Company , 12 Dec. 1998, www.historytoday.com/archive/curies-discover-radium.

  5. “The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls, Whose Deaths Saved Thousands Of Lives.” BuzzFeed, 5 May 2017, www.buzzfeed.com/authorkatemoore/the-light-that-does-not-lie.

  6. “The ‘Radium Girls' Literally Glowed from Their Work-and Then It Started Killing Them.” Medium, Timeline, 8 May 2017, timeline.com/radium-girls-kate-moore-2bc5746f9a6b.

  7. "Get Me A Radium Highball!": New York and the Radium Craze. New-York Historical Society, 7 July 2015, blog.nyhistory.org/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze/.

  8. “The Radium Girls.” Environmental History Timeline, 8 Apr. 2018, environmentalhistory.org/people/radiumgirls/.

  9. “Personal Effects of 'the Mother of Modern Physics' will Be Radioactive for Another 1500 Years” Business Insider, 24 Aug. 2015, www.businessinsider.com/marie-curie-radioactive-papers-2015-8.

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  13. “When 'Energy' Drinks Actually Contained Radioactive Energy.” The Conversation, Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program, 11 Nov. 2019, theconversation.com/when-energy-drinks-actually-contained-radioactive-energy-67976.

  14. “Health Risks of Radon and Other Internally Deposited Alpha-Emitters: Beir IV. #4: Radium,” NCBI, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218126/.

Aaron Mahnke
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