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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

Selling Dead Celebrities

As the recent kerfuffle over Richard III's remains demonstrates, the famous dead are a boon, to cemeteries and cities alike. It may seem crass banking on a star's remains, but for the consumer, there's something about standing by an icon's final resting place.

The Egg Came First

While there are compelling arguments on both sides of the age-old debate, there's a good reason for preferring one to the other, and it doesn't have much to do with science.

The Shame and Mortification of Giving a TEDTalk

The wildly popular TEDTalk symposia have, for better or worse, given public intellectuals, thinkers, and writers a global platform like none they've enjoyed before. But what happens when you're actually invited to give what organizers call "the speech of a lifetime"?