"Kurt Weiske -> Joe Mackey"  wrote in
news:55837$MEMORIES{at}JamNNTPd:

 >>> I saw an ad from the '50s a while ago for some woman's cosmetics
 >>> that contained some sort of radio active ingredient that was
 >>> supposed to be a beauty enhancer. During the ad a Geiger counter
 >>> was waved over the models face with the clicking sounds.


 KW> Sounds like a candidate for Bruce Sterling's ATOMPUNK mailing list, a
 KW> repository of all things related to 50's atomic-age culture.

 KW> http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2008/12/here-comes-atom/

When I was a kid, my Dad bought me an "Atomic Lab," it was sort of like the
chemistry sets from that time, and it had actual *URANIUM* in it!

(U-238, mild radioactivity and had to be processed up the wazoo to be made
into nuclear fuel.)

http://boingboing.net/2011/07/06/gilbert-atomic-energ.html

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