This week we travel to early 20th century London (and Colorado) with The Prestige! Join us to learn about twins, Colorado Springs, Tesla, the weird story of Chung Ling Soo, and more!

Sources:

Twins: Brian Resznick https://www.vox.com/2018/4/10/17218782/identical-twins-days-bond-science-twinsburg Drunk History (UK) "How the Kray Twins Were Caught" The Krays: Myth Behind the Legend Amazon Prime Video Hilton Als, "We Two Made One," The New Yorker (4 December 2000). https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/12/04/we-two-made-one Rose Eveleth, "Twins Spend Their Whole Lives Trying to be Different From One Another," Smithsonian Magazine (24 January 2014). https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/study-confirms-twins-spend-their-whole-lives-trying-be-different-one-another-180949423/ Erika Hayasaki, "Identical Twins Hint at How Environments Change Gene Expression," The Atlantic (15 May 2018). https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/twin-epigenetics/560189/ Lea Winerman, "A double life," American Psychological Association, Monitor 46:1 (January 2015): 30. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2015/01/double-life "Twins" Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/twins/lives-and-relationships-twins Peter Miller, "A Thing or Two About Twins," National Geographic (January 2012). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2012/01/identical-twins-science-dna-portraits/ Lucy Wallis, "Living a conjoined life," BBC News (24 April 2013). https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22181528 Dehryl A. Mason and Paul J. Frick, "The Heritability of Antisocial Behavior: A Meta-Analysis of Twin and Adoption Studies," Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 16:4 (1994): 301-323.

Colorado Springs: "Colorado Springs" Tesla: Life and Legacy PBS https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_colspr.html ; https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_warcur.html and https://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_poevis.html W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013).

Background: "The Making of "The Prestige"" https://youtu.be/JrTPQU4rJrg Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige_(film) IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0482571/ Roger Ebert, "Now you see him...Now you see him!" https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-prestige-2007 Rotten Tomatoes https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/prestige Piper Perabo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Perabo

Chung Ling Soo: "The Double Life and Death of Chung Ling Soo," Odd Salon. Available at https://youtu.be/RNM6H0Y1ous William J Turkel and Devon Elliot, "Making and Playing with Models: Using Rabid Prototyping to Explore the History and Technology of Stage Magic," Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology. University of Michigan Press Christopher Goto-Jones, "Magic, Modernity, and Orientalism: Conjuring Representations of Asia," Modern Asian Studies 48, 6 (2014) Footage of Chung Ling Soo, available at https://youtu.be/fKAfAKSByVQ