Three things linked by radium

I like to rail against people who read too much into coincidence. Having said that, radium (and Marie Curie) have popped up a lot in the past 24 hours.

A friend sent me this cartoon




I've just finished the chapter about radiation therapy in Siddhartha Mukherjee's (amazing) The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (put aside 10 minutes to read this great New Yorker review)




And tomorrow on the radio I'm going to be talking about Lauren Redniss's Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie - A Story of Love and Fallout.