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How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy

No one would accuse Jaroslav Flegr of being a conformist. A self-described “sloppy dresser,” the 63-year-old Czech scientist has the contemplative air of someone habitually lost in…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5718 words)
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Funeral sex may be death's best antidote.

On a Yelp message board, the question where to flirt in San Francisco provoked a vigorous online debate. Jason D. ranked funerals as the fifth-best flirting hot spot, beating out bars and…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1102 words)

My quest to build the perfect production of King Lear.

Derek Jacobi stars in BAM's production of King LearThackeray found King Lear boring. Tolstoy was no great fan. Samuel Johnson dreaded rereading the playhe recoiled from the death of Lear's youngest…
PUBLISHED: May 24, 2011
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1521 words)
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