BAKER STREET BABES 500,000 LISTENS GIVEAWAY
Yeah. 500,000 listens to our podcast episodes. I think I had a hernia when I saw those numbers. Plus 15,000 of you on here on tumblr, 10,000 on twitter, and 2,000 on Facebook (that’s a little embarrassing in comparison actually…)
So in order to celebrate stupid numbers, we’re hosting a mega giveaway! There will be THREE giveaways running simultaneously. One for tumblr, one for twitter, and one for Facebook. You’ll be able to enter all three if you have accounts. This is for all of you who make running The Baker Street Babes so much fun. Thank you for your support, thank you for your love, thank you for your ridiculous gifsets.
Yeah. We love you all. Thanks for loving us back. Xx
TUMBLR BSB 500K GIVEAWAY: 1ST PRIZE
To enter this Giveaway…
- You MUST be following us. This is a gift to our followers.
- You may REBLOG & LIKE this post for two chances. tumblr doesn’t count multiple reblogs most of the time. Sometimes it works. Most of the time it doesn’t. So just be aware if you’re reblogging it all the live long day, only your first reblog may show and your followers may despise you.
- You may reblog/like the 1st Prize AND the 2nd prize post.
- THIS GIVEAWAY ENDS ON THE IDES OF MARCH. BECAUSE WE WANT TO SAY IDES OF MARCH AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THE IDES OF MARCH ARE EPIC.
- Winner will be chosen by a random number generator.
- Have your ASK BOX OPEN! You will be given 48hours to reply before another random person is chosen.
Want to know what is what? Where to get it? Look no further! This is a HUGE thanks to everyone who donated their crafts and talents, PLEASE go check out their shops and sites!
- The Sherlock poster is ginormous.
- The Wounded Warrior Project Print is of Murray saving Watson and is a numbered and signed print that was made exclusively for The Daintiest Thing Under A Bonnet Charity Ball during BSI Weekend 2013.
- Basil Rathbone doll is a LIMITED EDITION Effanbee doll and comes in its original box (wear and tear) from 1983. it comes with a certificate that is numbered and signed.
- Red Pants mini 221b is by lapinPetite
- Young Sherlock Holmes DVD (US), Tom & Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes DVD (US)
- Baker Street Babes Tea by Cara McGee from Adagio Teas.
- Basil Of Baker Street by Eve Titus, Basil In Mexico, and a SIGNED copy of Basil & The Pygmy Cats.
- Baker Street Babes Deerstalker Button [x]
- Consulting Detective nail varnish by A Study In Polish.
- I Believe In Sherlock Holmes wristband by frostirons
- Badge from Ursula And Olive
- Sherlock badge from mystradedoodles
- SHERLOPALOOZA Program
- Mystrade at XMas by mystradedoodles
- Study In Scarlet infinity scarf by Panjerize
- IOU Necklace by Geekalicious
- 221b Wallpaper ring by iheartheartjewllery
- Lestrade keychain from mystradedoodles
- Sherlock & John mini dolls by LittlePocketDolls
- Sherlock & John keychain from mystradedoodles
- I Believe In Sherlock Holmes iPhone case by FeerieDoll
- Mycroft In Wonderland by mystradedoodles
- IOU Apple plush by houseofdarkly
- Sherlock Holmes perfume sample set by SaraWen
- SIGNED copy of Mastermind: How To Think Like Sherlock Holmes, by Maria Konnikova
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We’re getting scientific this episode with Mastermind author and psychologist Maria Konnikova! Delving into the psychology of Sherlock Holmes, we learn all about the brain attic, mindfulness, and whether Holmes has Aspergers or is even a sociopath at all. A really fun and incredibly informative episode wherein you’ll learn oodles and laugh just as much. Maria is joined by Babes Curly, Lyndsay, Kafers, Amy, Sarah, Ardy, and newcomer Melinda!
Plus, there’s a goodie at the end.
Maria’s first book, Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, forthcoming from Viking/Penguin in January 2013, was inspired by her “Lessons from Sherlock Holmes” series for Scientific American and follows the legendary detective as he explores the workings of the human mind. It is guided by a central premise: that Sherlock Holmes serves as a near-ideal window into the psychology of how we think and is a rare teacher of how to think better than we naturally do. While those who read the book may not become master detectives, they will certainly learn more about themselves, their minds, and their capabilities, and in so doing, will come closer to the Sherlockian ideal of a thinker who knows how to observe, not merely see, the world around him.
Maria is currently working on an assortment of non-fiction and fiction projects. Her first book, Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, will be published by Viking on January 3, 2013. She writes the weekly “Literally Psyched” column for Scientific American, where she explores the intersection of literature and psychology, and formerly wrote the popular psychology blog “Artful Choice” for Big Think. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Observer, Scientific American MIND, and Scientific American, among other publications. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she studied psychology, creative writing, and government, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Psychology at Columbia University. Before returning to school, she worked as a producer for the Charlie Rose show on PBS.
You can find her on twitter at @mkonnikova and at her website www.mariakonnikova.com
MASTERMIND is now available at Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.
[LISTEN]¦[DOWNLOAD]¦[TRANSCRIPT]
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We’re getting scientific this episode with Mastermind author and psychologist Maria Konnikova! Delving into the psychology of Sherlock Holmes, we learn all about the brain attic, mindfulness, and whether Holmes has Aspergers or is even a sociopath at all. A really fun and incredibly informative episode wherein you’ll learn oodles and laugh just as much. Maria is joined by Babes Curly, Lyndsay, Kafers, Amy, Sarah, Ardy, and newcomer Melinda!
Plus, there’s a goodie at the end.
Maria’s first book, Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, forthcoming from Viking/Penguin in January 2013, was inspired by her “Lessons from Sherlock Holmes” series for Scientific American and follows the legendary detective as he explores the workings of the human mind. It is guided by a central premise: that Sherlock Holmes serves as a near-ideal window into the psychology of how we think and is a rare teacher of how to think better than we naturally do. While those who read the book may not become master detectives, they will certainly learn more about themselves, their minds, and their capabilities, and in so doing, will come closer to the Sherlockian ideal of a thinker who knows how to observe, not merely see, the world around him.
Maria is currently working on an assortment of non-fiction and fiction projects. Her first book, Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, will be published by Viking on January 3, 2013. She writes the weekly “Literally Psyched” column for Scientific American, where she explores the intersection of literature and psychology, and formerly wrote the popular psychology blog “Artful Choice” for Big Think. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Slate, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Observer, Scientific American MIND, and Scientific American, among other publications. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she studied psychology, creative writing, and government, and is currently a doctoral candidate in Psychology at Columbia University. Before returning to school, she worked as a producer for the Charlie Rose show on PBS.
You can find her on twitter at @mkonnikova and at her website www.mariakonnikova.com
MASTERMIND is now available at Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon.
By Maria Konnikova
“Oh SHERLOCK, SHERLOCK, he’s in town again,
That prince of perspicacity, that monument of brain.
It seems he wasn’t hurt at all
By tumbling down the waterfall.”
So went the ditty that P.G. Wodehouse published in 1903, upon Holmes’s miraculous resurrection from his deadly descent down the Reichenbach Falls. This return from the dead was a momentous event indeed, and well worth Wodehouse’s commemoration: when Arthur Conan Doyle had killed off his famous detective almost ten years earlier, in “The Final Problem,” the news was, to put it mildly, not well received. The Strand—for many years, Holmes’s home—was inundated with letters from jilted readers. Conan Doyle found himself the target of angry mail and vitriolic attacks. It’s even said that City of London clerks wore black armbands to mourn the detective’s passing.
Still, Holmes’s creator stood firm. Holmes was gone for good. “Killed Holmes,” he wrote simply in his diary the December that “The Final Problem” appeared in the Strand Magazine. And Holmes would not be back.
But in the end, despite all his reservations, Conan Doyle succumbed. The pressure was just too great. And so, Sherlock Holmes was born anew. It may not have been the most graceful of returns—as Wodehouse wrote, “The explanation may be thin”—but you know what? Nobody much cared. Just as long as their hero was once again alive, any explanation, however vague on detail, would do. (“But bless you! We don’t care a pin, / If he’ll just give us back our SHERLOCK,” continues Wodehouse’s poem.)
Arthur Conan Doyle had learned a valuable lesson: you cannot kill Sherlock Holmes. It simply isn’t done.
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