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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: In Lewis Carroll’s Time, A Real Disease Led To “Mad Hatters”
Description: Today in 1832, the birthday of Lewis Carroll, the author of “Alice In Wonderland.” One of the most memorable characters in Carroll's universe, the Mad Hatter, got his name from an actual medical condition that made those working in the hat industry seem to turn mad. Plus: today in 1937, the birthday of history-making broadcast journalist Nancy Dickerson. Poisons Part I: The Mercurial World of Felt (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)Nancy Dickerson, 70, First Woman to Be a Reporter at CBS (New York Times) Our Patreon backers are like feathers in our caps, join them t...