The real comment in today’s strip is the fact that Mme Curie die from what she discovered, dying from aplastic anemia, brought on by the samples of radium she carried around with her. So Mr. Neolith and Mme. Curie share the fate of explorers that discover something valuable but also dangerous. Having read the strip again, that’s exactly your point. Wow nicely done.
Joseph Plateau, famous for studying minimal surfaces and moving images, went blind late in his life, which he attributed to his experiments staring at the sun earlier on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Plateau
Not only she was a brain, but the lady had balls of steel and a huge heart. Her behaviour during the “Great” War was nothing but exemplary.
So, I do believe the one actually insulted in this comic is her, and only her. The mesolithic magoo didn’t try to better the lives of the humankind, and wasn’t key to a lot of (good) contemporary medicinal practices in the hospitals. Like, not reusing the same scalpel on two different people without sterilizing it before.
I’ve challenged that “don’t look directly into the sun” rule hundreds of times and I can still see just fine (although I should probably just chalk that up to younger people being able to get away with more bad health decisions).
Well, the Mesolithic Magoo is more dressed than Marie Curie, so who’s supposed to look up to whom?
As usual, bugs missing eyes have their skull cave in to fill the sockets. Great job, good sir!
I thought he just had an oversized forehead like cavemen are often shown with.
The real comment in today’s strip is the fact that Mme Curie die from what she discovered, dying from aplastic anemia, brought on by the samples of radium she carried around with her. So Mr. Neolith and Mme. Curie share the fate of explorers that discover something valuable but also dangerous. Having read the strip again, that’s exactly your point. Wow nicely done.
Mme Curie was hot. In more ways than one, apparently.
You could say that she was
(puts on sunglasses)
Totally Rad.
(insert Hooligan’s opening riff)
I love how “Dad Bug” disciplined his little bug. A good whap on the back of the head has straightened out many a little bug.
Everyone can benefit from a good “Gibbs slap” every now and then.
When your corpse has to be buried in a lead-lined coffin because it counts as radioactive waste, you may have made unwise choices in your life.
Or, admittedly, you’ve made INCREDIBLY AWESOME and heroic choices in your life.
Still. Lead-lined coffin. Marie Curie was the Marie Curie of bad lab safety protocols.
Joseph Plateau, famous for studying minimal surfaces and moving images, went blind late in his life, which he attributed to his experiments staring at the sun earlier on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Plateau
Not only she was a brain, but the lady had balls of steel and a huge heart. Her behaviour during the “Great” War was nothing but exemplary.
So, I do believe the one actually insulted in this comic is her, and only her. The mesolithic magoo didn’t try to better the lives of the humankind, and wasn’t key to a lot of (good) contemporary medicinal practices in the hospitals. Like, not reusing the same scalpel on two different people without sterilizing it before.
I’ve challenged that “don’t look directly into the sun” rule hundreds of times and I can still see just fine (although I should probably just chalk that up to younger people being able to get away with more bad health decisions).