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By: Peggy Nelson

The last time Pandora opened the box there was kind of a problem. All sorts of uncontrollable wild things got all over the place, everybody started yelling and panicking, and Pandora got into lots of […]

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Special Guest, Enoch Soames

By: Peggy Nelson

Charlie Rose: Tonight on the show we have a very special guest, Enoch Soames, long thought to be a fictional character. In Max Beerbohm’s 1919 short story, Enoch Soames, a Memory of the Eighteen-Nineties, Beerbohm […]

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Gladwell Moore’s Guide to Girls (1)

By: Peggy Nelson

Girls have always had lots of guides to boys, from Susan Dey to He’s Just Not That Into You. Boys, however, have had to make do with, “. . . without warning, commence Steve Martin […]

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Andy did you hear about this one?

By: Peggy Nelson

[still from Le Voyage dans la Lune, 1902, by Georges Méliès] We believe that it was a largely ceremonial site, as we have found no evidence of agriculture or permanent habitation. And in addition to […]

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Cocktail Recipe: The Buzz

By: Peggy Nelson

Ingredients: 1 1/2 ounces vodka 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice 1/4 ounce honey lysozyme, beaten (substitution: one egg white) pinch cayenne Instructions: Shake all ingredients except cayenne with ice long and hard to completely emulsify […]

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