Curie’s notebooks remain radioactive and usable over a century later

Evidence

Marie Curie’s laboratory notebooks, more than a century old, are still radioactive — contaminated by the radium she handled, they will remain dangerous for some fifteen hundred years and are stored in lead-lined boxes, consulted only by those willing to sign a waiver and wear protection. And yet they are consulted: legible, scientifically and historically valuable, the active record of an active science. The knowledge in them has outlasted Curie herself and remains usable, the danger and the value coexisting in the same pages. — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive, 1705

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the Simard node-feed and mycorrhizal-network passages: records doing active work long after their maker’s death. — connects to: Marie Curie’s notebooks remain dangerously radioactive today — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive: The Complete…, 207

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Broader Connections

• Marie Curie’s notebooks remain dangerously radioactive today #corroborates (0.95) — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive, 207