![]() So, yeah, you can take that glow as beautiful or haunting, finally. ![]() Redniss takes us from Curie to Chernobyl, Hiroshima, Three-Mile Island, and beyond, reminding us of the dangers of radioactivity even as we turn away from oil and gas. The cyanotype process, from the nineteenth century, is a brilliant choice for the art, as it creates this mysterious glow. The illustrations Redniss does of them and their work and extending into the twentieth century are lovely, haunting, and sort of luminescent, as my friend Roger says, “largely stemming from the luminescent qualities of the cyanotype,” but there’s an air of mystery about their lives, too. ![]() Marie Curie essentially killed herself through her work in radium, working closely as well with her husband Pierre. In this luminous, enchanting illustrated biography of Madame Curie and cultural history of radioactivity by Lauren Redniss, she counters Curie’s own contention, and in chapter headings-Symmetry, Magnetism, Fusion-reveals that scientific terms can also be personal and passionate ones. there is no connection between my scientific work and the facts of private life"-Marie Curie "I coined the term radioactivity"-Marie Curie a collective corona that still glows”-Douglas Hofstadter ![]() “In the wake of a human being's death, what survives is a set of afterglows, some brighter and some dimmer, in the collective brains of those who were dearest to them.Though the primary brain has been eclipsed, there is, in those who remain. ![]()
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