The Power of Goat: For Good AND Evil?

Print:

• Chronicles of Old Chicago: Exploring the History and Lore of the Windy City, by Adam Selze
• Numbelievable: Stories and Drama Behind the Most Memorable Numbers from the World of Sports, by Michael X. Ferraro, John Veneziano, Dick Vitale

Online:

• The Billy Goat Curse – The Billy Goat Tavern
• “Chicago Cubs Curses” – Cubbies Baseball
• Reverse the Curse

Virtue, Sin, Blessing & Curse in Coleridge’s Rime

Print:

• Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804, by Richard Holmes
• Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834, by Richard Holmes
• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard Holmes
• Lyrical Ballads, by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Schmidt

Online:

• “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” – Poetry Foundation
• “Kubla Kahn” – Poetry Foundation
• Biograpphy: Samuel Taylor Colridge – Poetry Foundation

“His heart shall not be content in life” – Real Curses of Ancient Egypt

Print:

• Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharaohs, by Bob Brier
• An A to Z of Ancient Egypt, by Simon Cox, Susan Davies
• The Curse of the Pharaohs: My Adventures with Mummies, by Zahi A. Hawass

Online:

• “The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt” – PBS NOVA
• “Unwrapping the Mummy: Performance and Science” – Red Ice Creations
• “Curse of King Tut’s Tomb Turns 90” – Live Science
• A List of Real Egyptian Curses – Catchpenny Mysteries of Ancient Egypt

Belief in Pain: It’s All in your Head

Print:

Online:

• “Curse” – Rational Wiki
• “Ondine’s Curse” – Barrow Neurological Institute 
• “The Functional Neuroanatomy of the Placebo Effect” – The American Journal of Psychiatry
• “The Role of Learning in Nocebo and Placebo Effects” –  ScienceDirect
• “When Words are Painful: Unraveling the Mechanisms of the Nocebo Effect” – Science Direct
• “Conscious Expectation and Unconscious Conditioning in Analgesic, Motor, and Hormonal Placebo/Nocebo Responses” – The Journal of Neuroscience
• “New Insights into the Placebo and Nocebo Responses” – Science Direct

 “…But You Can Never Leave” – The Truth of the Curse of Santa Cruz

Print:

• Santa Cruz Is in the Heart: Selected Writings on Local History, Culture, Politics & Ghosts, by Geoffrey Dunn
• Santa Cruz County, Parade of the Past, by Margaret Koch
• Historical Atlas of California, by Derek Hayes
• The California Missions (Sunset Pictorial), by Dorothy Krell, Philip Spencer, John S. Weir, France Carpentier, Adrian Wilson

Online:

• “Floods and Flood Control on the San Lorenzo River in the City of Santa Cruz” – Santa Cruz Public Libraries
• “In Memoriam: Chinese Train Tunnel Workers” – Heathen Chinese
• “Birds “Invade” Santa Cruz, California” – Santa Cruz Sentinel
• “Angry Birds? or Domoic Acid Toxicity” – The Poison Review
• “Frank McLaughlin Kills Daughter and Himself at Santa Cruz”– San Francisco Call: California Digital Newspaper Collection
• McLaughlin House History – “The Golden Gate Villa” – Santa Cruz Public Libraries
• “A Walk Through Time: The 1898 Powder Mill Explosion” – Santa Cruz Public Libraries

Of Cussing & Cursing & the Power of Language

Print:

• The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, by Tom Dalzell
• Cursing in America: A Psycholinguistic Study of Dirty Language in the Courts, in the Movies, in the Schoolyards and on the Streets, by Timothy Jay
• Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing, by Melissa Mohr

Online:

• “Three Equine Etymologies” – The Inky Fool

For each salon, we invite our speakers to share the resources and interesting reading they came across in researching their talk, so that we can all dig more deeply. This reading list was compiled by Odd Salon with Ryan Galiotto, Kurt Larson, Casey Seldon, Janelle Slavik, Laura Rubin, & Tamar Baskind.  Thank you!