{"id":83,"date":"2013-03-05T16:04:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T01:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/?p=83"},"modified":"2013-11-21T05:51:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T15:21:21","slug":"addenda-radium-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/addenda-radium-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Addenda: Radium Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.publicradio.org\/content\/2008\/05\/06\/20080506_stacia_33.jpg\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" alt=\"RadiumGirlTheseShiningLives\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>I mentioned &#8220;radium girls&#8221; in class &#8211; here are a couple of links for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Bellows, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damninteresting.com\/undark-and-the-radium-girls\/\">&#8220;Undark and the Radium Girls,&#8221;<\/a> <em>Damn Interesting<\/em> #241<br \/>\nDeborah Blum, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plos.org\/speakeasyscience\/2011\/03\/24\/the-radium-girls\/\">&#8220;The Radium Girls,&#8221;<\/a> <em>Speakeasy Science<\/em> 24 March 2011<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a play based on their experiences, <a href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.publicradio.org\/display\/web\/2008\/05\/05\/radiumgirlsremembered\">&#8220;These Shining Lives&#8221;<\/a> (the photo is from a recent Minnesota production of the show). <\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.com\/2011\/04\/atomic-brand-names\/\">this eyepopping post<\/a> for more on the early 20th century fascination with radium and radiation in advertising and product names. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned &#8220;radium girls&#8221; in class &#8211; here are a couple of links for more information. Alan Bellows, &#8220;Undark and the Radium Girls,&#8221; Damn Interesting #241 Deborah Blum, &#8220;The Radium Girls,&#8221; Speakeasy Science 24 March 2011 There&#8217;s also a play based on their experiences, &#8220;These Shining Lives&#8221; (the photo is from a recent Minnesota production [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-spr13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tonahangen.com\/wsc\/hi290\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}