Edgar Allen Poe

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Collection: Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
Philosophy: Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
Novel: The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
Film: The Raven (1963)
Short film: Vincent (1982)
Wikipedia: Death of Edgar Allan Poe

You are the devil and the devil is bad

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Film: The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
Film segment: Fantasia, "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria" (1940)
Song: "The Devil Is Bad" by The W's
Painting: "The Garden of Earthly Delights" by Hieronymus Bosch
Television: Space Ghost Coast to Coast, "Sweet For Brak"
Novel: Needful Things by Stephen King
Novel: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Album: Hell Awaits by Slayer
Epic poem: Paradise Lost, Books II, III and X by John Milton
Wikipedia: Lucifer

Cinderella

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Film: Cinderella (1950)
Film: Cinderella II (2002)
Film: Ever After (1998)
Fairy tale: "Aschenputtel" by The Brothers Grimm
Nonfiction: Cinderella: A Casebook by Alan Dundes
Novel: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire
Album: Cinderella (1965 Television Cast) by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Poem: "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton
Wikipedia: Cinderella

Spelling Bees

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Poem: "The Spelling Bee at Angels" by Bret Harte
Novel: Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Film: Akeelah and the Bee (2006)
Film: A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969)
Album: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005 Original Broadway Cast)
Documentary: Spellbound (2002)
DVD: The Best of the National Spelling Bee
Nonfiction: How to Spell Like a Champ by Barrie Trinkle et al
Article: "The Spelling Bee" by Lola Di Giulio De Maci
Wikipedia: Scripps National Spelling Bee

Reefer Madness

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Nonfiction: Reefer Madness by Eric Schlosser
Nonfiction: Dying to Get High by Wendy Chapkis and Richard Webb
Fiction: Budding Prospects: A Pastoral by T.C. Boyle
Comics: A Drug War Carol by Susan W. Wells
Film: Dazed and Confused (1993)
Film: Friday (1995)
Film: Reefer Madness (1936)
Film: Up in Smoke (1978)
Film: Half Baked (1998)
Television: Weeds, "A.K.A. The Plant"
Wikipedia: Cannabis (drug)

Band of Thieves

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Novel: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Novel: Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Film: Ocean's Eleven (1960)
Film: Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Ballad: "Robin Hood and the Monk"
Ballad: "Robin Hood and the Potter"
Ballad: "Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne"
Ballad: "Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly"
Ballad: "Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow"
Wikipedia: Ned Kelly

It's Called, uh, Memory

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Novel: Remembrance of Things Past Volume 1: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Song: "Remember the Time" by Michael Jackson
Song: "That Time" by Regina Spektor
Novel: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Film: Memento (2000)
Article: "The Last Hippie" by Oliver Sacks
Wikipedia: Memory

The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of the Web

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Nonfiction: Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good by Sarah Lacy
Novel: Daemon by Leinad Zeraus
Song: "eBay" by "Weird Al" Yankovich
Music video: "Pork and Beans" by Weezer
Article: "Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe" by Joshua Davis
Article: "Geek Brawl" by Carlye Adler
Website: Boing Boing
Website: InternetNews
Website: Slashdot
Wikipedia: History of the Internet

Mëtalheads

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Album: Paranoid by Black Sabbath
Album: Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden
Album: Master of Puppets by Metallica
Album: Rust in Peace by Megadeth
Album: Sad Wings of Destiny by Judas Priest
Film: This Is Spın̈al Tap (1984)
Film: Heavy Metal (1981)
Documentary: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
Autobiography: Iron Man: My Journey through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath by Tony Iommi
Television: Metalocalypse, "Dethwater"
Graphic novel: The Melting Pot by Kevin Eastman, Simon Bisley and Eric Talbot
Novel: Scream Queens of the Dead Sea: Sex! Heavy Metal! Linguistics! by Gilad Elbom
Website: http://metal-archives.com/
Wikipedia: Metalhead

Tech Watch You

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Nonfiction: The Numerati by Stephen Baker
Nonfiction: The Shadow Factory by James Bamford
Short story: "The Hood Maker" by Philip K. Dick
Film: The Truman Show (1998)
DVD: Candid Camera: Greatest Moments
Album: Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails
Wikipedia: Surveillance

Rats!

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Children's novel: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh by Robert C. O'Brien
Film: Willard (2003)
Nonfiction: The Barbary Plague by Marilyn Chase
Nonfiction: Rat Attacks by Cynthia Laslo
Nonfiction: Rats by Robert Sullivan
Radio: Escape, "Three Skeleton Key"
Short story: "The Rat-Catcher's Son" by Carolyn London
Short story: "Graveyard Shift" by Stephen King
Wikipedia: Rat

Real Magick

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Novel: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Novel: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Television: Bewitched, "Be It Ever So Mortgaged"
Television: Charmed, "Something Wicca This Way Comes"
Short story: "The Sea and Little Fishes" by Terry Pratchett
Film: Willow (1988)
Wikipedia: Magic (fantasy)

Prestidigitation

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Short story: "Eisenheim the Illusionist" by Steven Millhauser
Film: The Prestige (2006)
Manual: Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic by Mark Wilson
Novel: Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician by Daniel Wallace
Comics: Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes
Television: Arrested Development, "Sword of Destiny"
Short film: L'homme à la tête de caoutchouc (1902)
Wikipedia: Street magic

Book of Mormon Stories

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Scripture: The Book of Mormon
Novel: Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites by Chris Heimerdinger
Short story collection: The Loftier Way by Blaine M. Yorgason and Brenton G. Yorgason
Song: "Book of Mormon Stories" by Elizabeth Bates et al
Music: "Variations on 'Nephite Lamentation'" by Lawrence Green
Wikipedia: Golden plates

The Hero’s Journey

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Nonfiction: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
Epic poem: The Odyssey by Homer
Epic poem: Gilgamesh translated by Stephen Mitchell
Documentary: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth, "Episode 1: The Hero's Adventure" (1988)
Film: Star Wars (1977)
Wikipedia: Monomyth

Circular Time

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Film: Groundhog Day (1993)
Novel: Replay by Ken Grimwood
Short story: "That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French" by Stephen King
Short story: "Abraham's Purgatory" by B. G. Christensen
Nonfiction: The Gifts of the Jews, "The Temple in the Moonlight" by Thomas Cahill
Comics: The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8 by T. Ott
Essay: "UGH! I Just Got the Creepiest Feeling That I Have Been Here Before" by Julia Johnson
Television: The X-Files, "Monday"
Film: Run, Lola, Run (1998)
Wikipedia: Déjà vu

What is "Superman"?

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Philosophy: Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Prologue, by Friedrich Nietzsche
Radio: This American Life, "How to Win Friends and Influence People", acts three and four
Film: The Iron Giant (1999)
Television-commercial series: "The Adventures of Seinfeld & Superman"
Short story: "The Reign of the Super-Man" by Jerry Siegel
Comics: Superman For All Seasons by Jeph Loeb
Comics: All Star Superman, Vol. 1 by Grant Morrison
Comics: Superman: Sunday Classics 1939-1943 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
Television: Smallville, "Pilot"
Album: Sound of Superman
Nonfiction: The Physics of Superheroes by James Kakalios
Wikipedia: History of Superman

On Superheroes

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Novel: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Comics: Batman: Year One by Frank Miller et al
Essay: "Warren Ellis Is the Future of Superhero Comics" by Brendan Riley
Comics: "The Amazing Life of Onion Jack" by Joel Priddy
Film: The Incredibles (2004)
Film: Spider-Man (2002)
Score: Superman: The Movie by John Williams
Nonfiction: Comic Book Nation by Bradford W. Wright
Wikipedia: Superman

That Time of the Month

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Novel: The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Novel: Are you there, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Short story: "Even the Queen" by Connie Willis
Short story collection: Don’t Cramp My Style by Lisa Rowe
Film: Carrie (1976)
Website: www.mum.org
Wikipedia: Menstruation

Hoop Dreams

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Documentary: Hoop Dreams (1994)
Film: Hoosiers (1986)
Film: Coach Carter (2005)
Novel: Slam! by Walter Dean Myers
Poem: "Ex-Basketball Player" by John Updike
Poem: "Why We Love It" by Elizabeth Noel Green
Nonfiction: Last Dance by John Feinstein and Mike Krzyzewski
Manga: Slam Dunk, Volume 1 by Takehiko Inoue
Wikipedia: Harlem Globetrotters