## Radium

> [en] Grace Fryer and Catherine Donohue — to name just two — are women we need to honor and salute as fearless champions. They shine through history with all that they achieved in their too-short lives. ==And they shine in other ways, too.== For radium has a half-life of 1,600 years… and it is still embedded in their bones. The ghost girls will be glowing in their graves for a good while yet.
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> <cite>*[The Forgotten Story Of The Radium Girls, Whose Deaths Saved Thousands Of Lives](https://www.buzzfeed.com/authorkatemoore/the-light-that-does-not-lie)* ([cache](/david/cache/2020/0bdcd919935d2bc62634f2df3dedd06d/))</cite>

Je n’avais aucune connaissance de cette histoire. Quel est notre radium d’aujourd’hui ? Il y a [des métaphores](https://ericwbailey.design/writing/the-radium-craze.html) ([cache](/david/cache/2020/740726bccca1dcd7c8adce3a89e6d933/)) qui semblent un peu légères en comparaison.