Shakespeare

Science

Was William Shakespeare A Pot-Smoking Hippie?

4:00PM June 29, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

A South African anthropologist wants to dig up William Shakespeare’s bones to find out if the playwright smoked pot. He got this crazy idea from an earlier study which turned up pipe fragments in Shakespeare’s garden that were coated with a marijuana residue. More »

Geek Out

Shakespeare Quotes Get Version 2.0

1:00PM February 6, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Time to dust off your Merry Wives of Windows and All’s Well That Ends AOL: Shakespeare’s gotten a version 2.0 upgrade from The Joy of Tech. More »

Fly Away

8:30AM November 20, 2009 | Kyle VanHemert

Gadgets are overwhelmingly concerned with immediacy and functionality, but a production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Texas A&M University reminds us that technology, when applied creatively, can be timeless and transcendent. More »