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David Plotz’s history of the notorious Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, “The Genius Factory,” could have been a pure romp. The characters are too larger-than-life, the events depicted too ridiculous not to be ...

As I understand it, the geniuses in charge of the NHL schedule have allowed a small gap and that gap allows a doozy of a documentary to air on CBC on Thursday. The word “genius” is key here. Genius ...

For nearly three years, journalist David Plotz worked as a semen detective. That's S-E-M-E-N. He tracked down the donors and offspring of a notorious California sperm bank, a bank that claimed to ...