Writer and social media manager Lauren Naturale joins merritt to talk Science, Literature, and History. Lauren is @lnaturale on Twitter. Ad: Please help us support our friend Emerald! Donate to Emerald's surgery fundraiser. Send merritt proof of your donation on twitter and we'll thank you on the show; donate $50 or more and we'll read a short message for you! Thanks to @sore_wa_himitsu, @_viravain, Mia, Sophie, and Bea for donating. 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.