https://linktr.ee/mortalmusingspodcast For Part 1, we talk about the discovery of radium, how it was used, and the devastating effects it had on the people who were exposed to it. Our oddity today is Masha Cat.     Sources:  https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/science/a-glow-in-the-dark-and-a-lesson-in-scientific-peril.html#:~:text=But%20she%20never%20fully%20acknowledged,of%20diseases%20induced%20by%20radiation.    https://www.businessinsider.com/marie-curie-radioactive-papers-2015-8    https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-radium-girls/#:~:text=By%20the%20early%20twentieth%20century,cure%20illnesses%2C%20and%20increase%20beauty.    https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-a-killer-workplace    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-oct-04-mn-29114-story.html    https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=DIL19380728.2.15&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN----------    https://www.nprillinois.org/equity-justice/2018-01-25/the-radium-girls-an-illinois-tragedy    https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/new-jerseys-radium-girls-and-nist-trained-scientist-who-came-their-aid    https://explorethearchive.com/the-radium-girls    https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls    https://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-one-of-the-last-radium-girls-dies-at-107    https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/radium-girls.htm    https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/tumwater-wa/mabel-williams-6529794    https://www.nprillinois.org/equity-justice/2018-01-25/the-radium-girls-an-illinois-tragedy      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/russian-cat-called-masha-saves-baby-abandoned-in-the-cold-9983367.html