Ep 233 - The Deadly Work of The Radium Girls

The Poisoners' Cabinet

Ep 233 is loose! And this week we have the terrifying tragic tale of the Radium Girls and their fight for justice.

Why was radium all the rage in the early 1900s? Why were so many women working with poison daily? And where do you put your toxic waste?

The secret ingredient is....honeycomb!

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Sources this week include The Radium Girls by Kate Moore, New Jersey.Gov Preservation Snapshot, National Library of Medicine, and the following links:

• https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-a-killer-workplace
• https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/radium-girls.htm
• https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-radium-girls/
• https://allthatsinteresting.com/radium-girls
• https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/when-beauty-products-were-radioactive/index.html
• https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/get-me-a-radium-highball-new-york-and-the-radium-craze
• https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/radium-girls-graves/
• https://www.damninteresting.com/undark-and-the-radium-girls/

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