Marie Curie Radium EarringsShe carried test tubes of radium in her pockets. She kept glowing samples in her desk drawer. Marie Curie was so intimate with her discovery that her personal notebooks, more than a century later, are still too radioactive to handle without protective clothing. That kind of devotion reckless, obsessive, world altering doesn't fit neatly into a textbook. It belongs somewhere closer to the body. Curie remains the only person in history to win Nobel

it was the fleeting grace of spring

The earrings are cut from lightweight printed wood

At four and three-quarter inches long and just over an inch wide

They arrive ready to gift or to keep

All materials are hypoallergenic

At 2 grams per pair

Others simply arrive — quiet

these earrings hang 1¼ inches from the top of the wire and weigh just 1 gram per earring — so light you might forget you're wearing them

and the pink glass became a kind of silent defiance — color and light in the middle of a very dark decade

Handcrafted by Momo Glassworks (Edo Mor and Rosario Torres) in Western Massachusetts

The ear wires are gold-plated brass

You can see it in the way the color shifts — not the flat uniformity of new glass