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Abstruse Goose: Fairy Tale

Back at the end of the 19th century, when scientists were just discovering radioactivity and Marie Curie was trying to isolate radium, nobody knew what the effect of radioactivity on the human body might be.  Radium was a new element, just a pretty blue glowing thing. Curie also wrote:  ”One of our joys was to go [...]

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