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.