Author plans Shakespeare plastic surgery
Best-selling author Zhang Yiyi is to have plastic surgery in order to look like William Shakespeare. It will take 10 facelifts and $153,000 to undergo…
View ArticleShakespeare Finds Inspiration
William Shakespeare has writer’s block! In this story, his little stick figure friends, Romeo and Juliet, try to help out, but inspiration only comes when they give up. Shakesperean Tragedy (a comedy)...
View ArticleSkull of Yorick
Skull of Yorick – $12.95 Have you been dieing to reenact your favorite scene from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet? You need the Skull of Yorick from the NeatoShop. This resin skull will save you the...
View ArticleTop 10 Books Lost to Time
A Latin professor once told me that the number of texts that have survived from antiquity to modern times may be likened to a single cup of sand from a beach. But it’s not just major works from...
View ArticleVirtual Monkeys Recreate the Works of Shakespeare
The infinite monkey theorem proposes that a group of monkeys, or even a single one, could reproduce the collected works of William Shakespeare by hitting random keystrokes if given sufficient time. It...
View ArticleShakespeare’s Bear
In the play Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, we see a stage direction that has caused mouths to drop open since the 17th century: “Exit, pursued by bear.” Those who wrote about it mostly assumed...
View ArticleThe Missing Links: Turn Off the Lights & This Cat Will Glow
Still Unnerving Forty-Four Years Later The photographs in the LIFE gallery on the RFK assassination are startling because they were taken only minutes or seconds before – or after – the horrible...
View ArticleReading Shakespeare Enhances Your Ability to Think
Do you ever feel mentally sharper after reading high literature? Philip Davis, an English professor at the University of Liverpool, does–particularly after reading works by William Shakespeare. The...
View Article10 Sports Heroes You Won’t Find On Wheaties Boxes
Shame on Wheaties for ignoring the heroes of elephant polo, sumo wrestling, and bullfighting! At our breakfast of champions, they’re always at the head of the table. 1. Sumo Wrestling: Akebono Taro...
View ArticleLiterary Javascript
Twitter developer and book nerd Angus Croll wondered what famous authors would do with javascript. His gives examples from his imagination for four great writers: Ernest Hemingway, Andre Breton,...
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