Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Make Good Art

Neil Gaiman's "Make Good Art"

"Life is not easy for any of us.
But what of that?
We must have perseverance
and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something
and that this thing must be attained."
~ Marie Curie

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Monday, May 21, 2012

Marie Curie vs. Albert Einstein


"Marie Curie vs. Albert Einstein." Clip #3 of Marie Curie: Rogue Scientist.

Madame Marie Curie (played by Rebecca Lynn Morales) jokes about her colleague, scientist Albert Einstein.

Award-Winning


Rebecca Lynn Morales stars in "Marie Curie: Rogue Scientist." The play earned writer G. S. Morales a special Inland Theatre League award: authorship of an original play.

Friday, May 18, 2012

One vial to rule them all...


Did you know that Madame Marie Curie called a vial of glowing radium "my precious"?

It was gift from husband, Pierre, on the night she gave her doctoral thesis.

She used it as a night light.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Marie Curie & Sheldon Cooper


0:26 - 0:39 :D

Amy Farrah Fowler: Come on, Sheldon. We can be like Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre, who spent their days working side by side, bathed in the glow of their love and the radium that ultimately killed her. Screw "Beauty and the Beast." That’s the love story Disney should tell!

One of Big Bang Theory's frequent references to Marie...

Tuesday, May 1, 2012