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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