"Now that legal pot is here, will cigarette companies dust off their old plans for mass commercialization?"

NPR explores the coming of legal marijuana: In the '70s... "there were high-level conversations about adding marijuana to tobacco, ...

The 200 greatest novels, stories, and poems...

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"The witches’ brew of predator-prey arms races: eye of newt, fenny snakes and resistance to a deadly poison."

The title of a lecture, one of many events here at the University of Wisconsin campus this week — in observance of the birthday of Charles ...

Writing with dashes.

Do you like dashes? I do. There are certain ways of using dashes that I particularly admire. Rather than try to explain what I like so much,...

"Great Expectations, the Miss Havisham Cake" — banned from the Melbourne Cake Show.

In bad taste? But it's literary! A reading, from Charles Dickens: The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on...

"On page 12, where Scrooge takes Marley’s ghost to be evidence not of the supernatural, but of his own indigestion, ('more of gravy than of grave,')..."

"... he converts the offending bit of food from being a 'spot of mustard' to a less digestible 'blot of mustard.'"...