Episode 128: The Radium Girls Part 1 - A Legit Glow Party

It’s episode 128 and the Sinister Sisters are taking their last lap before they turn thirty. If we can survive Four Loko we can survive anything…right? In today’s episode, Erin covers part one of the infuriating story of the radium girls. Dial-painting was a lucrative business during World War I and women were recruited by the United States Radium Corporation in New Jersey to paint dials with a radium substance that gave the watches a luminous glow. These women would leave the factories and head out into town with their hair, dresses, and even teeth glowing as brightly as the dials they had painted. The shining girls seemed to have it all, but when dial-painters began presenting with perplexing symptoms, they suspect that their job may be to blame. We are past Novocaine.

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If you want to look into these topics yourselves, below are the sources used:

Erin’s sources: (The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore);(https://www.britannica.com/story/nikola-teslas-weird-obsession-with-pigeons);