Astrology

ARIES March 21-April 19: I don’t understand why the astronomers responsible for naming new-found objects are so devoid of flair. Here’s a prime example: They found a blazar, or blazing quasi-stellar object, in a faraway galaxy. It’s powered by a supermassive black ...

ARIES March 21-April 19: You have to admit that salt looks like sugar and sugar resembles salt. This isn’t usually a major problem, though. Mistakenly...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Be interested in first things, Aries. Cultivate your attraction to beginnings. Align yourself with uprisings and breakthroughs. Find out what’s about...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Mythologist Joseph Campbell analyzed fairy tales for clues about how the human psyche works. For example, he said that a fairy...

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ARIES March 21-April 19:Playwright August Strindberg (1849–1912) was a maverick innovator who loved to experiment with plot and language. One of his stories takes place...

ARIES March 21-April 19: The 19th-century Italian composer Gioachino Rossini was a prolific creator who produced 39 operas. Renowned for his lyrical melodies, he was sometimes referred to as the “Italian Mozart.” So confident was he in his abilities that he bragged ...

ARIES March 21-April 19: Electra is an action-packed story written by ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. It features epic characters taking drastic action in response to...

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In her TED talk, science writer Mary Roach made it clear that human beings don’t need genital stimulation to experience orgasms. She spoke of a woman who routinely reaches ecstatic climax by having her eyebrows caressed, and another woman who...

ARIES March 21-April 19: A mushroom shaped like a horse’s hoof grows on birch trees in parts of Europe and the U.S. If you strip...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov says war is “more like a game of poker than chess. On a chess board,...

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: Do you know what a controlled burn is? Firefighters start small, manageable fires on purpose so as to eradicate brush that has accumulated too close to wooded areas. With less fuel around, bigger fires are not as likely to ignite accidentally...