Now that you know about the Radium Girls check out this video and you'll discover that Over Half the People Involved in the Hindenburg Disaster Survived: kzread.info/dash/bejne/eKSGo5V9gpetiLA.html

@macgaming-gs6co

6 жыл бұрын

Today I Found Out is it okay I found it funny because Curie basically invented glow sticks

@FerintoshFarmsPhotography

6 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be hard for them to find a lawyer nowadays

@janallenmunoz1525

6 жыл бұрын

Today I Found Out Simon Hitler

@macgaming-gs6co

6 жыл бұрын

Today I Found Out I ain't Hitler it's funny

@mattlane2282

5 жыл бұрын

Today I found out the US gov is a joke and helped kill off its own people

"No, no the girls are fine. Positively glowing with radiant health." [jaw falls off]

@SaraH-jn5db

5 жыл бұрын

I feel guilty for laughing

@GeoStreber

5 жыл бұрын

Not great, not terrible.

@klmeyer9907

5 жыл бұрын

they buried some of them in lead coffins www.ttbook.org/interview/women-toxic-glow

@Salty-cracker68

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe this is where zombies came from

@mzgigglez1992

4 жыл бұрын

PixelOutlaw this comment deserves way more likes 😂

I love the fact that the lady's hate for her job and therefore putting little effort into it saved her life.

@joanthemad5894

6 жыл бұрын

Srta.TacoMal same :)

@dx1450

5 жыл бұрын

She's an inspiration to slackers everywhere.

@vawexa123

4 жыл бұрын

You shouldnt do things you dont like thats the message guys

@ANDEZ

4 жыл бұрын

dan cussin me

@MsNooneinparticular

3 жыл бұрын

That's usually how it works. People diss draft dodgers but at least they live.

Jesus Christ, imagine going to the doctor to pull a tooth, and your jaw just falls apart.

@StormsparkPegasus

7 жыл бұрын

Check out this guy. He didn't paint dials, but he consumed thousands of vials of radium laced water as a "health tonic". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Byers

@Thumbsupurbum

7 жыл бұрын

Makes you wonder what new products we use today that will turn out to be horrific to your health later.(*cough cough* vape pens *cough cough*)

@TheAkashicTraveller

7 жыл бұрын

There's not really anything new about vape pens. They just vaporise a liquid so that you can inhale it. The worst case is that you bye a e-liquid that has something it shouldn't in it or a pen that over heats the liquid burning it. The latter is no worse than smoking tobacco and the former is a risk with just about everything.

@deadfreightwest5956

7 жыл бұрын

And because this guy was a celebrity, the government took notice. Up until that time, the suffering dial painters were beneath notice.

@dokimoeraveparty

7 жыл бұрын

the face i made when he got to that part, oh man

"The girls are in perfect condition" --> "They were crippled already when we found them" *puts off trial to try to kill them off*

When the boss says its safe but they wear lead aprons and use tongs when they handle it. You know some one is lying.

@abbie_joan

4 жыл бұрын

"Its safe!!" "If its safe then why are you wearing safety gear?" "your fired"

@Fred_the_1996

3 жыл бұрын

@@abbie_joan that's capitalism for you

@privateGOAWAY24

3 жыл бұрын

And look what's going on today imagine a world a whole entire world believing in a pLandemic going to walk right off the cliff and take a vaccine 🤦‍♀️ people will never learn! STUPID SHEEPLE!

@paulheap1982

3 жыл бұрын

@@privateGOAWAY24 calm down, your foil hat will fall off.

"You're perfectly fine, Grace." "My teeth are falling out." "That's perfectly normal. They just need to get out of the way for the new teeth you've got growing." "...You're not a medical doctor, are you?" "I mean, _technically_ no..."

@Victoria-bo9xk

4 жыл бұрын

😰

I recently finished reading "The Radium Girls - The Dark Story of America's Shining Women," by Kate Moore. Excellent book about their struggle against the lies of their employers, the ignorance of the medical profession and the indifference of the government, which would set the foundation for workers' health rights. And yet the same battle was fought again and again, with lead, asbestos, and so on. Even to this day businesses routinely lie to employees and the public about safety.

@axiezimmah

6 жыл бұрын

Artificial sweeteners....

@roadmaster720

6 жыл бұрын

unsafe office sex with the janitor.

@JW-uy2on

5 жыл бұрын

Yes and they are getting worse.

@tracya1973

5 жыл бұрын

Ooh sounds like a great read!

@spookymooshie902

4 жыл бұрын

It's also play

My great grandma was a radium girl and my whole family now has a predisposition to thyroid tumors and cancer. My uncle has thyroid cancer and every single one of his 4 children had tumors. Another of my cousins just got diagnosed with a thyroid tumor about a month ago and we just found a mass larger than a golfball on my 13 year old daughter’s thyroid. I knew my grandma painted watch dials and they jokingly called her radioactive but my husband just showed me your video I had no idea just how bad things were. My great grandma passed away at 92 years old back when I was in school. Our family is riddled with cancer.

@lynneporter1351

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry. The same is happening at the Bridgeton Missouri waste Area. It smells something bad. Residents suffer from diseases also and thats now. I know that's not the right name. Sorry

@tracyrood9609

3 жыл бұрын

@@lynneporter1351 the golf ball size mass on my daughter ended up being an 8.5cm tumor and it was papillary thyroid carcinoma. She had her entire thyroid removed a few month ago.

@rejectevolution152

2 жыл бұрын

@@tracyrood9609 Are you religious?

@tracyrood9609

2 жыл бұрын

@Reject Evolution yes I am.

Simon, a good story for you to tell is about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire which kill 123 women in 1911. They also worked under horrid conditions and were locked in their factory when a fire broke out.

@101Volts

6 жыл бұрын

Isn't that the one where it was said that lovers were kissing before committing suicide by jumping out the windows to avoid burning?

@k8tina

5 жыл бұрын

My great grandmother told me about that story when I was a kid. Then I read about it during a Business Finance & Marketing class in college. Definitely would make a good topic for Simon to cover in a future video.

@bluesira

5 жыл бұрын

Also the terrible factory collapse in Indonesia a couple years ago!

@thewanderer1598

4 жыл бұрын

Tracy McMillan everyone learns that in highschool, at least if you pay attention

@elleander1699

4 жыл бұрын

@@thewanderer1598 My school never teached that?

When people say we don't need regulations I think about incidents like these and laugh.

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

5 жыл бұрын

Yeap, they killed and seriously harmed a bunch of people so an extra law would have stopped them!

@DynamicSeq

4 жыл бұрын

Just don't eat paint..

@MsBee-iw3qw

4 жыл бұрын

'Triangle Shirtwaist Fire' Look into it. Spoiler: it's horrific AF.

@Keznen

3 ай бұрын

@DynamicSeq The girl who didn't still ended up with health problems later on. Radiation exposure is always dangerous.

@ThatGuy-bh9qh

19 күн бұрын

But think about all the people who've died from OVERregulation

Unimaginable that people could so easily become such monsters. This wasn't a "greedy corporation", this was a group of people that decided together to let young women suffer and die, so that they wouldn't get inconvenienced. I was almost to the point of throwing up by the end of this video.

@freespuddy

6 жыл бұрын

DrB1900, I agree. I'm constantly appalled at how many monsters there are in this world, that will let people suffer and die early so they can make a few more dollars.

@101Volts

6 жыл бұрын

That's how cars were for decades. No seat belts, garbage brakes, steering columns that could IMPALE you in a head-on and steel dashboards so your jaw's smashed in if you hit it. Oh and not even your dog was safe with the engine coolant dripping out the radiator (There was no overflow tank.)

@krashd

6 жыл бұрын

I think Jack explains it best in the movie Fight Club when he states that a car company will only issue a recall notice once the potential maximum payout over a lawsuit exceeds that of the cost of the recall. It's all just numbers and lives rarely matter on the bottom line of a company's accounts.

@mattlane2282

5 жыл бұрын

@@krashd I guess you buy only local grown no GMO organic food eh? No pre packaged foods, no nothing right? I mean after all everyone knows mass grown food is not as good as local... but it is much cheaper however... unless your playing a numbers game you would be buying all that stuff all the time... guess what the gov uses the exact same deal... they assign a value to each life... they look at cost of a project and how many people will be impacted... if cost > peoples life worth... project is not done. Welcome to the real world... where I am sure you don't drive the safest car on the road because it COSTS TOO MUCH... where i am sure you don't buy ONLY non gmo organic local food...

@MAGGOT_VOMIT

5 жыл бұрын

*Mysteriously, My grandmother had a backwards "12 & xemiT" on her forehead, from sleeping too close to her clock.*

I'm calling it, this will be made into a movie within ten years.

@figjam9530

7 жыл бұрын

i'll see your ten years and raise you within seven years.

@kitsunekid16

6 жыл бұрын

That would be a sad movie with a shitty ending

@elektrotehnik94

5 жыл бұрын

i'd watch that :D

@briarrose3687

5 жыл бұрын

There is a movie

@eddiereekie2403

5 жыл бұрын

Except they'll turn half of them black and make all the scientists black or trans females fighting the white patriarchy

We had a radium dial factory here in Tucson. The building was knocked down and the area is still considered to be contaminated.

Damn the whole story behind this is so sad and eerie.... It's a shame what greed can do to people

@101Volts

6 жыл бұрын

"Stay away from all kinds of greed." - Jesus Christ

@Jobe-13

5 жыл бұрын

Djmax ikr

I've heard the story a few times lately. It's so sad and makes me so angry for these girls.

@GlamourNNail

7 жыл бұрын

Excellent video by the way. Very informative and well presented. One of my favorites.

@coolworx

6 жыл бұрын

Really? You're so mad? Well do yourself a favor and don't google the Triangle Shirt Factory, or the The Bhopal disaster, or the building of the Pyramids - if ya wanna go back far enough. The great bulk of average humanity has been at the behest, in body and soul, of a self appointed elite since before time was counted.

@Silentgrace11

5 жыл бұрын

At least the triangle shirtwaist factory is included in textbooks (or at least has been - I can’t vouch for ones that kids get nowadays, but it was a topic discussed at least three times in my schooling). As far as I know the radium girls is hardly covered, particularly because their experiences would overshadow the depictions of the roaring 20’s schools discuss before covering the Great Depression.

The dangers of giving ground-breaking scientific discoveries to the public without knowing what long term effects it may have and the dangers of greedy corporations, truly frightening.

@dafttool

7 жыл бұрын

Ghqebvful Oh, you mean like nuclear power?

@ghqebvful

7 жыл бұрын

dafttool Nuclear power can be amazing, I don't know. I just mean we need to study things and educate people on them before releasing them unto people.

@jeenkzk5919

7 жыл бұрын

Ghqebvful I imagine they had no idea that radium was dangerous because seeing things at a microlevel was still a new thing at the time.

@ghqebvful

7 жыл бұрын

That was part of my point. We needed to study the effects before mass producing it. Then when it was seen to be harmful stop trying to keep making money off peoples suffering and get them as much help as possible.

@jarehelt

7 жыл бұрын

Ghqebvful Corporations cant get away with stuff like this. Only governments can. If desani put lead in their water there would be a class action lawsuit on their doorstep and they would never see the light of day again. When the government puts lead in the water there is no one to sue. Us radium was a government contract.

My great grandmother built bombs during WW2 and was one of the "blonde bombshell" girls. I'd love to see a video about that :)

@leerwesen

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Or other jobs women did during WW2 My grandma worked doing something with materials. Tarps I think. She's dead (RIP) so I can't ask. I do remember she said it gave her eczema.

@jayasuriyas2604

7 жыл бұрын

ItsBowmanTV cool

@l.k5244

6 жыл бұрын

So she contributed to killing people. I know she was doing it for a living, but there's nothing to be proud of.

@RCWest

6 жыл бұрын

Layth Alkhaer .....They were killing nazis you idoit XD... oh those poor poor nazis.

@nutellaeatingpanda

6 жыл бұрын

Layth Alkhaer Its not the ideal. We should try to avoid conflict. But if a dictator in europe is taking over many countries and killing a ton of people you need to go to war.

Companies and their greed...they don't seem to care how much blood is on their hands as long as they make money

@whoc4r3s117

7 жыл бұрын

GreenSchwinnOfficial Dominator vs paternilstic society.

@ShaunDreclin

7 жыл бұрын

GreenSchwinnOfficial they only exist to make as much money as possible. Doing anything to reduce profits like following basic ethics can open you up to lawsuits from shareholders.

@Alman556

6 жыл бұрын

It isn't "companies" that do this. Its people. Just people.

@notoriousbig3k

6 жыл бұрын

they didnt know that those girl would put radium on them ....

@quetzalcueyat

6 жыл бұрын

notoriousbig3k they actually told them to use their mouths to get a fine point on their paint brushes. Also look up how the discovers died

I would suggest that that US Radium was run by Lex Luthor, but he tends to be a tad more subtle with his evil master plans...

Radium is in the same column on the periodic table as calcium. This means it is chemically similar to calcium, but it's heavier and radioactive. Which means the body will substitute calcium for it. Which...you can imagine what that does to your teeth and bones.

I can remember getting my first watch that glowed in the dark. My grandmother wasn’t too happy, she asked me how many people died so I could have my "toy". Can really make Christmas a bumer!

@moonwalkerangel7008

2 жыл бұрын

Depending what year you got the watch. Let me explain, any watches made after 1968, it would contain radium because modern glow in the dark paint is made with Zinc Sulfide and Copper, but anything before 1968, then of course that would have been a concern.

It's unbelievable that corporations can get away with things like this. It's truly despicable.

@flybeep1661

7 жыл бұрын

Yep, previously it also happened with lead gasoline and also with cigarettes. Climate change denying is also a much lobbied point by corporations who benefit from loose regulations. They even managed to turn public opinion sufficiently enough against climate scientists. People don't learn.

@ChronaDecrox

7 жыл бұрын

Fly Beep ? Sounds like you need to check your info. Because a lot of the info regarding climate change previously known as global warming. Has been and keeps being falsified and predictions keep being wrong. When real data concerning the temperature both in predictions and data collected shows mild differences. Hard to explain all the neunce about geological history's,how weather on other planetes in our solar system is going through similar changes. How plants grow,that things are being blow out of proportion when talking about weather/food/war/etc. All I can say is that I would like to try and save the world but...what's to save your chasing a boogey man and dancing to the tune of rich/becoming richer people/country's/company's. And that the more I learn about the world. The more I step back and go wait...something is not right. If the world is burning why are guys at the top of these green agendas getting so much richer while flying there private jets and having electric bills enough to power my house for the rest of my life. The list just keeps going. I am bad at wording things. But there is more then your are seeing going on. And that's how they want it to be...then again some of them believe it as much as you do.

@jarehelt

7 жыл бұрын

Cam Good Corporations cant get away with stuff like this. Only governments can. If desani put lead in their water there would be a class action lawsuit on their doorstep and they would never see the light of day again. When the government puts lead in the water there is no one to sue. Us radium was a government contract.

@florascent9ts

7 жыл бұрын

TheFreePantheist corporations get away with things all the time. if they can hide it or offset their waste on consumers for profits (e.g. disposable items, poor working conditions like black lung, limb loss, etc) no one will notice. no one really seems to care that Chinese or Congolese workers today face terrible working conditions, despite all the cheap goods and labor we get from them. as for lead, old plumbing work was done with lead (Pb) because it's easy to work with. the word plumbing actually comes from the Latin word for lead, plumbum. there's supposed to be a protective "scale" or coating on the inside that needs to be maintained with treated water, but many local government are negligent and fail to meet their own regulations or are too stubborn to accept federal infrastructure grants and millions of people get hurt as a result. it's our politicians that are to blame.

@pawala7

7 жыл бұрын

I think what's even sadder is that it's totally believable...

Same thing happened with cigarettes. Still people defend what they like as if there was nothing wrong with it ever.

@roadmaster720

6 жыл бұрын

bullshit. cigarettes haven't killed me yet at 63.

@nutellaeatingpanda

6 жыл бұрын

david wells My grandad was 54. He used to smoke daily and he died last year due to lung problems. You should quit. Get a nicotine patch or nicotine gum. Please stop before it kills you.

@jamesluck2969

6 жыл бұрын

david wells, dip it

@speedy01247

6 жыл бұрын

There is a very good reason it is still illegal to have cigarette ad's on TV to this day.

@1953childstar

5 жыл бұрын

@@nutellaeatingpanda My father died horribly of lung cancer at 53 and my mother suffered with lung cancer more than two years, finally dead at age 73.. They both smoked 2-3 packs a day. All the people who claim smoking does not kill, are delusional addicts who can rationalize their behavior.

I live right next to Ottawa, il. They had the westclox building here and once that was closed they opened Luminous processes inc. Ottawa has a statue up of radium girls. i went to high school in Ottawa. They took the buildings down and buried the bricks in the earth. So many people here have cancer, and the bricks in the earth will still set off Geiger counters. Crazy to think I've lived in an area of history my whole life.

That had to have been horrifying for those poor women. When we hear about stories that happened long ago, we don't realize that those people had emotions and fears, too. They're gone now but I'm so sorry they had to endure that living nightmare of cruelty and despair.

Did you know even today, a radiation meter picks up a crazy level above their graves.

@moonwalkerangel7008

2 жыл бұрын

A Geiger counter.

@OfficialToxicCat

Жыл бұрын

Their bodies and bones glowed. Some of them even had to be buried in led coffins from what I’ve heard.

... I was born & raised in East Orange, NJ, which borders on Orange, NJ ... where the Westclox Company had located their watch and clock-face dial radium painting factory. My family had 3 Westclox alarm clocks that had radium-painted dials, and I, as a kid, thought they were all kinds of Magical & Neat. Moreover, in the late '50's, my parents bought me a certain Gilbert Chemistry set-- for my "Big Christmas Gift"-- that featured an even *more* Magical & Neat gizmo called a *"Scintillometer".* This was an aluminum jeweller's magnifying eye-cup type loupe, that had a solid disc of-- you guessed it-- *radium* mounted a little distance from the glass magnifying lens. So, at night-- or in a closet, or underneath my bedsheets during daytime-- once my eyes had adjusted to the darkness, I could look through the magnifying loupe, and see teensy glittering galaxies of exploding stars, created by the photons released when radioactive particles collided with the glass lens. All these Fun facts didn't deter me, however, in the least from immediately buying one of those Super-Cool softly glowing titanium cylinder-caged glass ampoule keychains, filled with a gaseous radioactive isotope of Hydrogen, namely, *Tritium.* It's continuously glowing Life was guaranteed to be about 26 years ... and after I did the arithmetic, I figured out that I could be buried with it. As a night-light :P Considering that I'd spent my childhood playing outside every chance I got-- not giving a second thought to my country's rampant atmospheric testing of atomic bombs (along with You-Know-Whoski)-- it's a wonder I can't read comic books underneath the covers *without* needing a flashlight. I nevertheless started taking a potassium iodide daily supplement after the Three Mile Island nuclear "accident", which occurred not all that far from where I was living at the time. And of course since then, we've had Chernobyl and Fukushima. This March 20th, at 7:42am EST, I'll turn 68 ... and my doctor tells me that except for my bad knees, my internals are as healthy as those of a 35 year old. So, Thanks *So* Much, Ancestors. I'm surprised none of you were French, inasmuch the city of Autun was built directly over a massive natural deposit of *Autunite* ... which is considered to be the richest variety of ... *Uranium ore on the planet.*

"That glow isn't natural.." "You're right, let's paint our teeth with it!"

Please never stop making these high quality videos!

Oh. =( I knew about the plight of the radium girls, but I had no idea that their employers knew about the risk and lied about it. And then worked so hard to cover their own arses at the awful expense to the victims of their malfeasance. That's just awful.

My daily dose of History Thank you Simon

@asdfire

7 жыл бұрын

And now for another bonus fact.

@andreitarkovsky3214

7 жыл бұрын

no wonder this was sooo long

@ClickLikeAndSubscribe

6 жыл бұрын

TIL THEN, Death You could also get your daily dose of radiation if you lived back then..

@faizalf119

6 жыл бұрын

Also daily dose of outrage to asshole companies who caused death to their workers and not taking responsibility.

@vexonen

6 жыл бұрын

daily dose of internet really?

I feel bad for the Curies, they made amazing discoveries in science but at the same time dug many peoples graves without knowing it. Certainly wasn't their fault, however.

*deep breath* Well... this won't help with my tooth falling out nightmares.

@moonwalkerangel7008

2 жыл бұрын

I am sorry to hear that.

I can remember having an old alarm clock in our farmhouse that had glowing numbers and hands when it was dark. I have always had anemia and teeth issues and arthritis etc. Holy cow..... This all makes sense to me now.

@taylorindustries

2 жыл бұрын

that wouldn't do anything to you. as long as you don't touch the numbers themselves. even then you need like 1000 clocks to kill you

@natashanajeeb4959

2 жыл бұрын

Wad it a radium dial clock

Radium Paint is irl Bone Hurting Juice

@snug_as_a_bug

6 жыл бұрын

Matsuda Industries fuck off

@h0l0_itz_m35

6 жыл бұрын

It makes your body and eyes deteriorate.. what my science teacher said when my class laughed is “it’s not very funny when there jaw falls off” and all my class stopped laughing in a snap

@snug_as_a_bug

6 жыл бұрын

*Flower_ _Power* your english teacher was obviously bad

@h0l0_itz_m35

6 жыл бұрын

A. Burr it’s my science teacher and he only did it because my class was acting like it was a joke and they didn’t listen to him

@EmeraId

6 жыл бұрын

JESUS CHRIST GORDON RAMSEY

Can you imagine all the chemical compounds that we are surrounding ourselves with today. That in 100 years from now people will say we were stupid.

@roshlouis8767

6 жыл бұрын

Mickey The maltipoo: One simple example, lithium batteries in our phones, tablets and game consoles. Such battery can easily explode with a high intensity burst if dented or damaged or over heated. Yet we use it so close to our face and put it next to our highly flammable cotton bed when sleeping.

@maryhennelly5680

4 жыл бұрын

Mickey The maltipoo My money’s on essential oils

Woman: *jaw breaks off* Doctor: "You're in perfect health, don't be silly"

Radium Girls is an amazing play as well. I directed several scenes in my undergrad. Powerful writing based on a completely avoidable tragedy.

"Even bottled radium water...I died"

This video really gave me a warm feeling about large corporations and their treatment and general attitude towards the common worker. Sadly, to reach the top of the market share, companies often throw their workers under the nearest bus! Slavery may have been legally abolished after the Civil War but that doesn't mean it was stopped. Great video, Happy Labor Day!

@paulbenedict1289

6 жыл бұрын

Everyone sees the large corporations. Nobody seems to notice the large government that enables and protects them.

@milorodriguez3739

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Simmons well said. Fuck capitalism

@paulbenedict1289

6 жыл бұрын

Milo Rodriguez Exactly. Being poisoned in government owned socialist factory is all the rage right now.

@milorodriguez3739

6 жыл бұрын

Paul Benedict in socialism the means of production are owned by the workers, not the government. As a result pay is better, conditions are heslthier, benefits are greater... And with better pay consumerism runs smoothly and prosperously. You're thinking of communism my friend

@paulbenedict1289

6 жыл бұрын

Milo Rodriguez That's not true. In real socialism means of production are owned by elves and pink unicorns. They provide much better benefits. How dare you misrepresent true socialism you heretic.

Last time I was this early was when they said radiation was good for you

@tscherenkov9461

7 жыл бұрын

well because it looks like LNT is wrong. radiation is good for you until a certain point.

The symptoms sound kind of like "Phossy Jaw", or phosphorus poisoning, causing the jawbone to rot from exposure to white posphorus, used in old matches.

@moonwalkerangel7008

2 жыл бұрын

That’s what the girls also discovered, that radium and Phossy Jaw were similar.

Simon, I know this video was posted a while ago. However, I would like to share my story. In the grand ol US of A, we use Lead Chromate as a road pigment. We now know lead is highly carcinogenic. During that time we had no idea. The pots the Thermoplastics were being melted in was really hot(400F). During the winter time, we would pop open the tops of the pots and enjoy the heat. I had no clue Lead Chromate was in the thermoplastic substance being boiled. We inhaled the fumes to keep worm. Sadly, I feel I am going to live a short life because of this. The company I worked for will plead ignorance.

I want to pay respect by saying R.I.P to the 5 brave Radium Girls. They should get recognitions every March for the part they played in Women's history.

so humans just found a new element and were like “let’s put this on our faces!”

@Jack-dw4cd

3 жыл бұрын

Mascara has bat shit in it, what do you expect

@daisanity6457

2 жыл бұрын

@@Jack-dw4cd I'm sorry it has *what*

@Jack-dw4cd

2 жыл бұрын

@@daisanity6457 hell yea brother

Corporations are usually evil when left to their own devices.

@Jobe-13

5 жыл бұрын

Carter Kinoy yep

Not commonly known is that Sabin von Sochocky, inventor od "Undark" paint used to stick his arm in cans of the paint up to the elbow. As you can imagine, it didn't end well.

This story and many others like it are perfect examples of why we need government regulations. Just sayin'.

@lordelliott42

7 жыл бұрын

Alexis Yeah, cause the corporation totally didn't just payoff tons of government officials and blatantly rewrite reports in their favor. No, what you need are more people with mothers that taught them basic human decency and strict punishments for people who so obviously violate it.

@georgeapplegate3535

7 жыл бұрын

It wouldn't have helped if the risks weren't established. I also wonder if those most poisoned were taking in large quantities intentionally, given radium's previous reputation for being healthful.

@whoc4r3s117

7 жыл бұрын

Alexis Cause government is effecent. They don't spend all the tax money on kick backs. A set of stairs doesn't cost 60k tax payer money gets done diy by a citizen for 600 bucks then torn out and quoted for 50k.

@workingguy6666

7 жыл бұрын

All the regulations in the world do nothing without regulators - our current system has routed the regulators, and allows corporations - and even meat producers - to 'self regulate.' You can have people write up, and pass, more regulations, but it isn't getting you anywhere.

@ShaunDreclin

7 жыл бұрын

Three Percenter the stairs you are referencing were poorly built and completely unsafe.

"The Radium Girls" by Kate Moore is an excellent read.

And if you think about it, we no longer use Radium to light stuff up, we use silicon, as in light emitting diodes or LED's. And we're back to pocket watches - our mobile devices used LED's to light up the screen and keep perfect time.

@Xiefux

7 жыл бұрын

kd1s for watches and other glow stuff radium is still widely used

@PileOfEmptyTapes

7 жыл бұрын

Actually radium has not been used at all since the 1960s, and even tritium is rather uncommon. Speaking of light, if you've got a cheap alarm clock that runs on a single 1.5 V battery, you may still find a tiny lightbulb inside. Inefficient as that may be, it's the only way of using a voltage that low directly without having to resort to DC/DC converters.

@PileOfEmptyTapes

7 жыл бұрын

Mobile devices only keep perfect time on an Internet connection, where they can sync with an NTP server regularly. Plus getting them out can be rather cumbersome. Conventional wristwatches are anything but dead. Smartwatches are a nice gimmick but I don't see them lasting for decades. Incidentally, I have been marvelling at the kind of power consumption figures that quartz watches already managed 30+ years ago - we're talking below 1 µA at 1.55 V, and most of that actually going to the mechanics (or LCD). Truly micropower long before that buzzword existed.

@moonwalkerangel7008

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: they still use the Zinc Sulfide compound for glow in the dark paints. They just don’t add Radium or any other radioactive elements to it. I don’t remember the exact science but Zinc Sulfide is a phosphor.

Nice video for Labor Day (US).

Simon:" So I really hope you enjoyed that video" me:*sobbing* great... great video

I've never seen so many Nobel prizes in a single video. Actually in a single family!

My grandmother worked in the Orange NJ facility. She passed from radium poisoning after suffering terribly for years

And yet despite this infamous case, there are still people who insist that having calcium in your diet doesn't actually improve bone health. Despite radium killing people so thoroughly precisely because the body mistakes it for calcium. And the bones continued to glow after death proving that the new "calcium" did indeed end up in the bones

If you find this topic interesting, and you like reading fiction, I highly recommend the book, "A Beautiful Poison" by Lydia Kang. It's an indie Whodunnit and one of the main characters is a dial painting "Radium Girl" caught up in a murder mystery.

Capitalism at its finest.

@TheRevering

5 жыл бұрын

jerome zhao definitely. Communism only killed hundreds of millions. No comparison!

@dysonspreybar4903

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheRevering and capitalism hasn't?

@fiolds350

4 жыл бұрын

Government... Allowed us radium to get away with it.

@JustALad

4 жыл бұрын

Embrace the third position \O

@z54964380

4 жыл бұрын

Dyson Spreybar Capitialism allows the existence of free press as well as democracy, as opposed to communism which solely relies on the regime being competent and benevolent to its ppl

"Capitalism works!" Right. The Radium girls who died untimely deaths because of capitalist greed would feel that way if you could revive them and ask what they think. Nothing has changed, injustice because of greed still happens today. Look at climate change and oil companies. Healthcare and insurance and pharmaceutical companies. The military industrial complex. Higher education and student loans. The economy and the banks and Wall Street. The list doesn't end there.

@Fiiischinator

6 жыл бұрын

Simon Cowell This can also happen in communism, as stalin has proven quite well.

@crystalraf

6 жыл бұрын

They got pennies in the lawsuit.

@lemaygaming6952

5 жыл бұрын

@@Fiiischinator Stalin wasn't Communist.

@ChucksSEADnDEAD

5 жыл бұрын

The college and healthcare issue can be traced back to government programs causing costs to inflate, though.

@marthab-c5226

4 жыл бұрын

Fiiischinator So? Clearly both systems are bad. We need to stop looking at this black and white.

This legitimately made me upset.

@Jobe-13

5 жыл бұрын

Azonavox Same.

What does a doctor do to patients? He Helium And if he can't? He Barium

@mattmarzula

7 жыл бұрын

[Yoshikage_Kira] Funny but, not true. Morticians bury people.

@hoser20000

7 жыл бұрын

Gotta work cesium into that statement somehow......yeah!

@omni1607

6 жыл бұрын

john m Patient has drugs, but not enough for the doctor? He cesium.

@wuestion9473

5 жыл бұрын

Matt Marzula 🙄

i thought its a video about a girl band named The Radium Girls and wore glow in the dark costumes... why did i think of that lol

@newscruise8177

7 жыл бұрын

f*ck off

@ginnrollins211

7 жыл бұрын

Tell Me This Though that would sound like an awesome thing, sadly is not the case.

@cup_check_official

7 жыл бұрын

ginnrollins211 ikr? i would go to Radium Girl's concert 😏

@blacknovember1835

7 жыл бұрын

Tell Me This Dude, copyright that idea 😂 that sounds like an awesome band 10/10 would check it out

@damenwhelan3236

7 жыл бұрын

So... atomic kitten isn't a glowing baby cat then?

That was awesome! Thank you for the incredible insight into a pretty unreal topic from the past. You literally saved me hours right there. Love the bonus facts too!! Thanks :)

Love these videos!!!! So informative and entertaining!

Simon, have you ever done one on the Abacus. I know they are used for addition and subtraction , but I also understand they can do much more. I and probably others would be interested in a video about the Not so simple Abacus. If you've done one already let me know. I'm still binge watching your 3 channels since I'm a fairly new subscriber. Really love these videos. Thanks.

@marclemieux1030

7 жыл бұрын

Guo Wei Yan , yes he does. Top Tenz Net and Visual Politck. More really great stuff by my favourite narrator Simon Whistler. Check them out I'm sure they would appreciate it. 🤝

And now for another bonus fact.

@coolcatrick3454

5 жыл бұрын

Yes... waiting!!

I have heard this story so many times, but never have I heard it told this way. Thank you, Today I found out!

I love this presentation & host! Classy Corporate Moment 😂😂😂

"I hope you enjoyed the video." Ya. I am in a wonderful mood now. :l

it would be good they said, it would be healthy they said...

I love your videos!!! Extremely informative, very interesting and never boring!!! 😌

Funny, I heard this story years and years ago but I heard it was timex where they worked..... Another fun fact: You used to be able to buy a kid's chemistry set that used to come with a piece of uranium....and yes, it was radioactive and extremely dangerous.

I was in a play about this. I played the paint's inventor Dr. Von Sochocky.

@elizabethgatsby3442

6 жыл бұрын

Griffin Watson OMG me too! It's a super interesting play, the author even came to give us a work shop.

@thecomedyclownfish1731

6 жыл бұрын

The Seven Year Twitch dude lucky!! We did it too. I was the Reporter :)

@emilywilson6692

5 жыл бұрын

Me too. I played a factory girl, reporter, One of the corporate radium company workers daughter, and a member of the public

next, how about you talk about the young women in the UK making matches and dying/getting disfigured due to phosphorus they worked with

@krashd

6 жыл бұрын

Or the 'madhatters' of Europe who got off their tits on mercury.

Thank you for raising awareness about this horrible, horrible situation. May nothing like it happen again.

Outstanding research and re-telling!

I guess you could say they were painted in a bad light.

@NocturnalNugget2

6 жыл бұрын

Neverland Nights no. But yes

@tangerinetech5300

5 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha ha

@zaggernut5054

5 жыл бұрын

I'm going to hell for upvoting that

@SaraH-jn5db

5 жыл бұрын

Stop that

@stimpy_thecat

5 жыл бұрын

*badum-tsss*

Reminds me of asbestos, and fossil fuels.

@faizalf119

6 жыл бұрын

Lead infused fuel?

@wrinkleintime4257

6 жыл бұрын

Corey Doyle people used to dye everything with arsenic! :) Green dye used to be made of arsenic and used in tons of products including foods. Ah humans thinking they're clever with dangerous substances always trying to control the Earth, and it fights back ...

@101Volts

6 жыл бұрын

Arsenic-Laden Wallpaper, 1800s.

@tylermai1436

6 жыл бұрын

WrinkleinTime42 at that time we didn't know what we know now that's why there's a lot of that were made of carcinogens. Heck there might be thing today that are bad for us but no one knows yet

@wrinkleintime4257

6 жыл бұрын

Tyler Mai True.... I think about that quite often actually.

Seriously interesting video. Looking forward to watching more.

Remembering my high school chemistry teacher, the best, who spoke of the very thing. Thanks.

I remember watching an episode about this on Science Channel years ago called “Dark Matters: Twisted But True”.

Sure-fire way to win a Nobel - Get born in the Curie family.

@subbss

6 жыл бұрын

And then do amazing things.

So, I've seen a few comments about wondering what things we might be doing now that we'll look back on like this. I'm a professional scientist, still young enough to retain some optimism (and haven't yet been offered one of those bribes, where can I find one, I'm so underpaid) and I have a few thoughts: Modern health and safety in the western world now has a healthy respect for hazardous chemicals. To say nothing about how little manufacture we do in the west, regulations and requirements are now sufficiently stringent that workers are not put at risk any more (certainly not in the same way). Unfortunately, there are certain countries in the eastern world (including a particularly large and influential one that I shall decline to name) who are less respectful to their workers. A lot of our electronics comes from the east, and silicon fabrication involves significant amounts of arsenic, fluorine and phosphorus (sidenote, fabrication engineers are mostly men but fabrication technicians are mostly women - take a guess which group handles more dangerous chemicals). Moreover, to extract neodymium - the metal used to make super-strong permanent magnets - and other rare earth metals from mined ore, a lot of radioactive waste is produced, which I don't imagine is being treated with enough respect. I don't suspect anything like as nasty as the Radium Girls' story is happening out there, but I do think we'll look back on our heavy consumption of electronics and tech less than favourably. Moving away from chemistry to biology and medicine, there are a few ongoing crises. I think the biggest is antibiotic resistance and I think future generations will consider it absurd how doctors and patients abused antibiotics and how research into antibiotics has dried up. A more thorny one is mental health, particularly as knowledge of causes and treatments are still in its adolescence, but I think people will look back on this era like we look back on medicine from 100 years ago. Speaking personally, I think we might also view farming, food consumption and livestock health differently in the future - in the US, in particular, minimal effort and money is spent keeping livestock healthy, with meat being cleaned and treated after slaughter (when animals aren't pumped full of antibiotics). This process is not as effective as raising animals properly, but the general public's appetite for cheap meat has the be met somehow! By far, the biggest, though, will be global climate change (global warming). This, *absolutely*, is a case where big business is suppressing scientific evidence, paying off a few scientists to disagree with the consensus, then claiming that 'opinion is divided'. Greenhouse gas emissions are still way too high, but despite our metaphorical toolbox being full of technological options to produce greener energy and goods, politicians are sitting on their hands (be sure to vote, folks!). It goes further than greenhouse gases, though, and we're doing huge harm to ecology and biodiversity, driving huge numbers of species to extinction as we build over their habitats, hunt them to extinction and pollute their homes. This, more than anything else, is what I think future generations will judge us for. They'll wonder what the hell we were thinking! ----------------------------- As a bonus, a few things people were discussing elsewhere in the comments: Mobile phones are not a health hazard. Simon mentioned 'ionising radiation' in the video - this is when a photon (like an X-ray) has so much energy that, when an electron absorbs it, the electron escapes from the atom. The left over atom is ionised and goes on to have chemical reactions with things (which is usually bad news). However, low energy photons - such as visible light, infrared radiation, microwaves and radio waves - don't have enough energy to ionise anything. What microwaves *can* do, however is make electrons dance. No really, the wave pulls the electrons to one side, then the other, then the other, back and forth about a million times a second. This is what heats up food in a microwave oven - the electrons are basically dancing so fast that (like dancing humans) they get pretty hot. The speed they dance (the frequency of the wave) doesn't affect this process (I mean, it does affect how deep the microwaves penetrate, with higher frequencies penetrating less deep) - it's how vigorously they dance (the *power* of the wave) that matters. If you look on the cooking instructions on some microwaveable food, you might see them giving instructions for different microwave powers - all of these are much, much more powerful than a mobile phone. Genetically modified food is not an issue. We've been genetically modifying food for thousands of years, it's just we used to call it 'selective breeding' and used it to deform fruits, vegetables and animals so extremely that most commercial cultivars can't survive in the wild any more. As far as I'm concerned, nothing we do in the lab is going to top that. I don't know too much about fracking. I do know that there have been attempts to start fracking in my country (the UK, in Lancashire) and that tremors have been detected since they started fracking. The key thing, though, which demonstrates my previous point about modern health and safety, is that these tremors were detected by seismometers and were far too weak to be perceived by humans. Nevertheless, regulations state that the company needs to stop their operations and monitor the site for a while before they resume. Honestly, I reckon the locals (who kicked up a fuss when the project was proposed) have had a bigger social, economic and environmental impact than the fracking!

Oh my it’s Simon!! Just made my day! ♥️♥️♥️

Hey my baby, how she glow! It ain't syphilis, she ain't no Ho! A dose or two of radium makes her show, with a pleasant look of green flame glow!

@roadmaster720

6 жыл бұрын

nothing like a green flame glow blow, huh?

A perfect case of how business behaves in the absence of "Government Regulations."

Thank you for giving me my information for school work! I will subscribe

This story is my favorite episode of The Dollop podcast. It's definitely worth a listen!

@naseerahvj

7 жыл бұрын

Catherine Branch stuff you missed in history class?

While I largely identify as a libertarian, it's stuff like this that make me against the idea of full anarcho-capitalism. Now yes, part of this was caused by government interference and yes, too much government control is just as a bad if not worse, there has to be some standards we hold business too or you will find there's a lot of them that are perfectly willing to pull crap like this. God, given how easy the fixes were it was almost like they were getting off on the power knowing what there were doing to these power girls.

@silverdeathgamer2907

7 жыл бұрын

If it is more profitable for a business to act unethically or form a monopoly or cartel they will do so,that is why regulation is required,businesses only purpose is to make as much profit as possible.

@speedy01247

6 жыл бұрын

It's the issue about Free market capitalism, cause the people in charge of the businesses are not there for the world's benefit, only their own. (and while you have good people like Bill Gate's around 10% of people who make it up the corporate ladder are literally psychopaths, who lack empathy and and are heartless to the plight of those beneath them)

@charlesalberti563

5 жыл бұрын

@@rushxanthemtcg5607 at least they know about ad hominem

This video is lit

@darksidecola4529

7 жыл бұрын

Get out.

@blacknovember1835

7 жыл бұрын

Capt. Bacon *slow claps*

@blgarage9519

7 жыл бұрын

The Amazing Satanist all I'm saying is that this video brightened my day

@levi4328

7 жыл бұрын

*slow caps*

@TristansGameRoom

6 жыл бұрын

If you’re going to say the modern version of “Lit”. Please go away.

I did not know the last part. Thanks for sharing your understanding

i remember my dad telling me about four girls that used to work in a clock factory near my home town and that even though dead they still set off the Geiger Counters from their graves

Hi Top Ten Team!!! I was really hoping you guys could do a video on the Pyrex Corning ware phenomenon. And if the rumors about it being nigh indestructible are true. I understand you have a huge back log on these things but that would be an interesting topic. Keep up the fantastic work guys!! And I totally watched the making of your videos and very much appreciate the scientific stringency you apply to those topics. Hope to see something soon!! :)

@TheAkashicTraveller

7 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure Pyrex is just brorosilicate glass which has a higher resistance to thermal shock, meaning you can heat it faster without it exploding, but otherwise is basically the same as regular glass.

@Silentgrace11

5 жыл бұрын

It’s not that they’re indestructible. It’s more so that the kids who accidentally broke the dishes never live to tell the tale a la their parents xD

Wow! That US Radium is awful. How could they do this? Did they not have any conscience at all? That is totally repugnant! I despise the cigarette industry for all the cover up and denying they did but this Radium company makes the cigarette industry almost look good by comparison. That has to be the worst company in modern US history. Thank you for telling their story. This should not ever be forgotten.

@moonwalkerangel7008

2 жыл бұрын

Funny how you mentioned the cigarette company in a radium related video. Because cigarettes also contain a radioactive element that was discovered by Marie Curie, yes she discovered polonium (in cigarettes and radium).

Fascinating. Thank you

Glad to see a shout-out for "Tab for a Cause".

The 60fps version is giving me a migraine :/ I always have to remember to change the resolution on these videos.

@Xiefux

7 жыл бұрын

ancalyme because 30fps is soooooooooo much better?

@ancalyme

7 жыл бұрын

Yes. Especially when the movements are sped up.

@MartyBellvue

6 жыл бұрын

i HAAAAATE 60fps too sis omg!!! it’s sooooo headachey

Is it just me or is this video sped up a little? Simon seems to be talking and moving unusually fast

@nickicouture7297

4 жыл бұрын

Salvator Merrifield I noticed it just as I read this comment. Weird.

@PranaChi369

4 жыл бұрын

I noticed too🤔

A great presentation, thanks a lot.

I am in a shower about the Radium Girls from Ottawa Illinois! I loved listening and learning more. I play Inez Vallat.