Irène Joliot-Curie found that radioactivity wasn't just something to be found in the earth's elements -- scientists could make other metals radioactive. And then her research took her right up to nuclear fission...and World War II.
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Music in this episode:
Thematic by Blue Dot Sessions
Divider by Chris Zabriskie
John Stockton Slow Drag by Chris Zabriskie
Frog Legs Rag by James Scott from 1906 piano roll
Keep The Prices Down by Podington Bear
Morning Mist by Podington Bear
The Zeppelin by Blue Dot Sessions
Beachhead by Podington Bear
Grand Fell by Blue Dot Sessions
Because You Hold Me Tight by Alex Fitch
Margaret Cavendish used her writing to debate philosophy with some of the great thinkers of the scientific revolution. And she was the only woman to visit the Royal Society meetings for at least its first hundred years.
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Music in this episode:
Panoramic Showers by Podington Bear
Rise by Igor Khabarov
Periodicals by Blue Dot Sessions
The Sun is Scheduled to Come Out Tomorrow by Chris Zabriskie
Feels Like Home by Fabian Measures
Not Drunk (no vocals) by The Joy Drops
Sunset by Lee Rosevere
Five by Marcel Pequel
Pens From Spain (Instrumental) by Loch Lomond
K-Eyes by Rho
Nobody Here But Us Charles Dickens!
Holy Roller by YACHT
Spontaneous Existence by Little Glass Men