A few days ago my writer friend, Erin Dionne, posted this status update:
Erin is a fantastic writer, incidentally. You should read her new book, if you haven’t yet.
She followed up with
(Loree Burns is another writer friend, who… Read More
Marie Curie, who with her husband won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work with radioactivity, left behind papers which are so radioactive they are kept in a lead-lined box. Researchers must wear protective clothing to see them.
Bill Bryson, A Really Short History of Nearly Everything