Science

Virtual Monkeys Have Almost Written Shakespeare

Jesse Anderson developed a program that simulated a few million virtual monkeys randomly mashing keys on virtual typewriters in an attempt to re-create Shakespeare. Amazingly, the monkeys (monkeys!) have managed to write 99.99 per cent of Shakespeare’s poem, A Lover’s Complaint.


June 29, 2011
Science

Was William Shakespeare A Pot-Smoking Hippie?

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.