Now, in comparison to the last few posts, this will be less like a story from history. This post is more like a story to tell your friends over dinner (If, of course, your friends are particularly forgiving)! How often do you think about memory foam? I’m willing to bet the general answer would be…

Picking up from where the last part left off, we get into the actual grit of radium. While every reasonably modern person is aware that radiation poisoning is not only fatal, but can have other terrifying consequences, we are so protected from those scenarios that we may not actually know what results from interaction with…

It’s 2017, and everyone knows that Radium is, well, radioactive. It’s in the name. It’s bad.   But, what if we didn’t know? In 1896, radiation was discovered. Only two years later, radium was discovered. To put that in perspective, two years ago, in 2015, water on Mars was discovered. Many of us know of that now,…

Hello! I hope you’re ready to hear interesting stories, and I hope you don’t get spooked to easily. This is going to be a blog about all the crazy chemicals, foods, toxins, and poisons this world has to offer. After exploring this blog, you may think I have a fascination with death. You may be…

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