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The great indoors
Claims abound about the energy consumption of the legal marijuana industry. The most recent wave comes from a 2016 report from New Frontier, “Illuminating...
Astrology | Week of May 10, 2012
ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: In one of your past lives, I think you must have periodically done something like stick your tongue out or thumb your nose at pretentious tyrants and gotten away with it. At least that’s one explanation for how confident you often are about ...
Astrology | Week of July 11, 2013
ARIES March 21-April 19: The Space Needle is a tourist attraction in Seattle. It’s taller than the Washington Monument but shorter than the Eiffel Tower. Near the top of the structure is a circular restaurant that rotates slowly, making one complete turn every 47 ...
This boy needs a spanking
A California legislator who espouses family values apparently has gotten into hot water for getting caught on videotape bragging about sexual escapades with two lobbyists. Extramarital affairs by high-ranking politicians aren't exactly news anymore, but there seems ...
Chasing alien megastructures
In 1960, physicist Freeman Dyson suggested that the energy demands of all technological civilizations would eventually exceed the natural resources of their home planet....
Hemp and the woolly mammoth’s hair piece
It’s no secret that hemp is one of the most misunderstood plants in history. For centuries, it has been used by all kinds of people for all kinds of things — clothing to car construction, bioplastics to building supplies, food to fuel...
The importance of icaros
Medicine songs like the Amazonian icaros are a standard tool used by shamans in ayahuasca-healing ceremonies. Often sung in Spanish, Quechua, or other Amazonian...
Astrology 7/21/16
ARIES
March 21-April 19: You now have more luxuriant access to divine luck than you’ve had in a long time. For the foreseeable future, you...
Keep your eye on the ball
How a vigilant hemp advocacy organization rallied against a special interest group's bastardized hemp regulation bill
A dank new super-bug killer… maybe
Scientists don’t discover new naturally occurring antibiotic molecules very often — and the last place anyone probably would have guessed to look for the...
Racist partner; Gay bar bachelorette parties; Secret stash of porn featuring...
Dear Dan: I’m 33, blah blah blah, and live in a big city. I’ve been dating an age-appropriate person for a year and a...
