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The Radium Girls: The Women Who Glowed, Got Sick, and Then Changed the World
The world loves a good invention story. Someone has a big idea. People call them crazy. They persist. They win. Everybody claps. What the world doesn’t love is the part of the story where the people doing the actual labour get their bones dissolved in the process. So today, we’re talking about the Radium Girls.…
Shreya Singh
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