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202 - The Anarchist Cookbook

1. FBI documents/dispatches to Hoover about the book.
2. YouTube clip of attempt at napalm recipe.
3. Reference for Harvard Press publication on the history of Napalm.
4. "Napalm Girl" photo [NSFW].
5. How Stuff Work piece on napalm.
6. "Bananadine" recipe.
7. NYU Researchers call sheningans on bananadine.
8. Peanut drugs from an Angelfire site because we can.
9. 1952 UK Hypnotism Act.
10. William Powell's work Becoming an Emotionally Intelligent Teacher.
 

108 - Body: Cracking Knuckles and Power Licking

102 - Food: Surge Shrinkage and Boozy Foods

Chewing gum in stomach:
http://www.mayoclinic.org/digestive-system/expert-answers/faq-20058446
A 1998 paper describes a four-year-old boy being referred with a two-year history of constipation. The boy was found to have "always swallowed his gum after chewing five to seven pieces each day", being given the gum as a reward for good behavior, and the build-up resulted in a solid mass which could not leave the body.  A 1½-year-old girl required medical attention when she swallowed her gum and four coins, which got stuck together in her esophagus. 

MSG:
http://www.businessinsider.com/is-msg-sodium-in-chinese-food-safe-to-eat-2014-8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJw8r_YWJ9k&feature=youtu.be
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2222.2009.03221.x/abstract

Wooden spoon:
http://food-hacks.wonderhowto.com/how-to/why-does-wooden-spoon-stop-pasta-from-boiling-over-0151541/

Salt to boiling water:
http://chemistry.about.com/od/foodcookingchemistry/f/Why-Do-You-Add-Salt-To-Boiling-Water.htm

Steak searing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt2iNwuTKHM
On Food and Cooking (Revised Edition). cGee, Harold (2004). Page 161, "The Searing Question"

Raspberry flavoring
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17365147
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/01/beaver-butts-emit-goo-used-for-vanilla-flavoring/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/26/293406191/does-beaver-tush-flavor-your-strawberry-shortcake-we-go-myth-busting

Cocaine Cola:
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/01/business/how-coca-cola-obtains-its-coca.html

Dr. Pepper Crack:
Not true, couldn’t find a recorded mention of crack in Dr. Pepper

Surge yellow 5:
Pollock, Ellen Joan.   "Why Mountain Dew Is Now the Talk of the Teen Circuit." The Wall Street Journal.   14 October 1999

Foods that give nightmares
http://firstwefeast.com/eat/how-does-food-influence-our-dreams/
http://bodyodd.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/16965956-can-spicy-food-really-give-you-nightmares
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/04/13/10-foods-to-avoid-before-bed.html

Grapefruit

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=16685052

Honey for infants
http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/bacterial_viral/botulism.html

Pork and Trichinosis: http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-japan-blowfish1-2009apr01-story.html
http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/trichinellosis/gen_info/faqs.html