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Monday, November 7, 2005


Nov. 7
I'm in a good mood. I just read a really good fanfic.....
Well, it's election day, according to my sources, but it's also Marie Curie's birthday!
All hail the inventor of the substance that could kill us all!
Well, it's true.
But Marie Curie was very determined, something we should all be. Actually, maybe determined isn't the right word. She was obsessive. She went to bed with a jar of radium next to her. She fell asleep watching it glow.

Obsessive. Determined. What's the difference?
The way she completely blinded herself to the negative effects of radium, however, was a bit overkill. Only a little. She died of leukemia (I think that's how you spell it.) because she was around radium too long and too often.
You know when my grandfather was a kid, he would go to the shoe store and there would be a thing where you could get an x-ray of your own foot? You just stuck your foot under and you could see the bones. That's creepy. And dangerous.

What other random facts can I give you...?
Ah. One of the ingredients in dynamite is peanuts.

Later.

Thank you, ziopheth, for the 'randomness' comment.. But I think that was proved during the cookie monster incident. And soon people will depend on me for random facts, or at least to be slithtly surprised.
They did know about the negative effects of radium back then. There was an incident where they used radium to paint on the arms of watches so they'd glow. Twelve ladies licked their brushes so they would come to a better point. All of them died of throat cancer.

If you're wondering how I know, it's because my dad listens to science fridays on NPR and when he used to pick me up from school, I had to listen to a full hour of them....

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