Bluestocking

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http://www.iflscience.com/brain/learning-new-words-activates-same-brain-regions-sex-and-drugs/

http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/are-you-a-sillytonian-or-a-losenger-30-olde-timey-words-academics-want-to-bring-back/all/ 

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http://fortune.com/2017/10/17/carrie-fisher-sent-a-cows-tongue-to-a-producer-that-sexually-assaulted-her-friend/

http://m.valpotorch.com/mobile/arts_and_entertainment/article_50f5265e-b57d-11e7-af4d-8705fa02ab38.html

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/lois-lane-explains-white-male-privilege-to-superman

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NPR article and links about Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1849395

Library of Congress information and links about Zora Neale Hurston: https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/january-07

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Thanks for listening to Bluestocking! Today we're talking about two books and the subject of memory...

Moonwalking with Einstein and The Paper Menagerie 

*Spoiler Alert*

The author of Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer, actually did win the United States Memory Championships the year he competed. 

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Please note: this episode does contain some strong language in the first five minutes. Skip ahead and you’re fine.

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https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/excerpts-from-the-all-girl-remake-of-lord-of-the-flies

https://pizzabottle.com/45524-15-of-the-funniest-reactions-to-that-all-female-lord-of-the-flies-remake/

https://comicsverse.com/good-earth-review/

Find these books on Amazon, and help support Bluestocking!

Lord of the Flies

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, Graphic Novel Adaptation

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-true-story-of-roland-the-farter-and-how-the-internet-killed-professional-flatulence

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170619-why-british-english-is-full-of-silly-sounding-words

https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Wonder-Woman-ebook/dp/B00K4C3QPK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1504319348&sr=8-1&keywords=jill+lepore

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In this episode, I’ll be sharing two short stories by one of my favorite authors, Emma Donoghue (https://www.emmadonoghue.com/), award-winning author of Room.

In her collection of short stories, The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, she tells little-known stories based on history, including such characters as Mary Toft, Baker Brown, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Please consider checking out Eve Ensler’s V-Day Movement (http://www.vday.org/) if you are troubled by what happens to the heroines in these stories.

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Helpful Links:

https://www.bustle.com/p/jeannette-walls-hopes-the-glass-castle-inspires-others-to-confront-their-pasts-tell-their-stories-69081

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library

http://www.carnegielibrary.org/about/history-of-carnegie-library-of-pittsburgh/

http://beautyandthebook.com/

https://imaginationlibrary.com/

Early photoshop, spirit photography, vampires, and purgatory - they all have some sort of tie to our 16th President in this week's episode.

Helpful Links:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abraham-lincoln-photos-edited

http://www.historynet.com/the-ghost-and-mr-mumler.htm

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