madame curie, most of you probably know was not american. this is an american science, why are we talking about madame curie? madame curie comes to the united states in the 1920s and the reason why she comes is remember she had discovered radium, radioactivity but the problem was she didn't patent it so there is all of these american chemical producers making all of this money and she can't even afford this much of it so she could do her own research. so she talks of his publicist in the united states, this woman named missy maloney and she hooks her up. she starts this campaign and all of these american women are going to raise money so madame curie can have a radium. i tell the story about this campaign. what is so funny about this, this tiny campaign says everything about notches how american women were being defined in this. but also how american science is getting defined because she comes to the united states and of course all of her american handlers have to try to deal with the contradiction that is madame curie. here is this woman w

>> no, what happened is a devout christian work with madame curie and einstein and all those four ofthe league of nations, wrote the warriors way, first in english. and he said the japanese soul and the cherry blossoms are both indigenous to japan. so this so-called japanese soul, which enabled them to die without hesitation, was symbolized by cherry blossoms. and so win at the end of the war in 1944, he started this one way mission, he adapted cherry blossom symbolism. and so all the kamikaze planes have one cherry blossom on the side in pink. and so, another -- historical processes whereby at the end of the 19th century when japan realize that every other country in east asia was colonized, and that's how the major restoration took place. when children were sleeping without realizing geopolitics. and so from that point, before the 1889 embryo constitution of japan was drafted, and actually accept article i were all written by german scholars, legal scholars. but anyway, from that on, they started to use following cherry petal as the motto for warriors and soldiers to die for japan.