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Writer and social media manager Lauren Naturale joins merritt to talk Science, Literature, and History.

Lauren is @lnaturale on Twitter.

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Get Rec'd:

• Lauren rec's the Ms. Yeah YouTube channel


• merritt rec's getting a fainting couch (or 'chaise lounge' or 'nutting couch') on craigslist for less than $100

Works Cited:

• Salmonellosis


• Georgi Markov who was killed by the Bulgarian Secret Service with a Bulgarian umbrella, with assistance from the KGB?????


• Mendel


• Theory of Acquired Traits


• UCLA


• UCB


• Harvard


• Chicago


• Seattle doesn't have any problems


• Here is New York by E. B. White


• merritt's tweet about New York


• it's impossible to find the youtube magazine on google


• MEL the Dollar Shave Club editorial division which merritt wrote for


• Woolly the Casper editorial division


• JK Rowling is such a turd


• harry potter pictures


• Wolf Hall


• Hillary Mantel


• Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit


• Jeanette Winterson


• Evelyn Waugh


• Sword of Honour


• The Price of Salt


• felt in the jaw by Kristen Arnett


• Frankenstein (フランケンシュタイン), Volume 16 in The Junji Ito Horror Comic Collection


• Junji Ito's Cat Diary


• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire


• The Tenement Museum


• Lies My Teacher Told Me


• A People's History of the United States


• M-W's cowardly definition of fascism


• Naturale, or nat.