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Marie Curie: The Woman Who Glowed
Her notebooks are still radioactive — and you need a waiver to read them
Marie Curie won two Nobel Prizes in two different sciences — a feat no one has matched. Her notebooks are still kept in lead-lined boxes in Paris, radioactive for another 1,500 years. This is the story of a stateless woman who rewrote physics and chemistry, and paid for it with her life — slowly, beautifully, knowingly.
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Mythio is a library of audio documentaries on the ideas, people, and events that shaped the world. Each episode is researched across the best sources, fact-checked, and told in full. Most run twenty to thirty minutes, long enough to go deep, short enough to finish in one sitting.