A new DVD box set called The Ernie Kovacs Collection has critics gushing about one of early television's lost relics. Salon's Matt Zoller Seitz: What TV owes to Ernie Kovacs. To this day, Kovacs' work remains some of the most bizarre and innovative television ever made. David Bianculli has some words on his short but brilliant reign as the king of TV comedy.
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Slate.com: Christopher Hitchens has some advice for Kate Middleton.
Mother Jones: The Science of why we don't believe Science: How our brains fool us on climate, creationism, and vaccine-autism link.
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This article appears in Apr 21-27, 2011.