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ARIES March 21-April 19: Westward Ho! is the name of a village in southwestern England. Its name is impressive because of the exclamation point. But...

A big win for the platypus, oh and people with diabetes Be honest. How many times a year do you think about the platypus? If...

ARIES March 21-April 19: I dreamed you were in a cake store. Every delicious kind of cake you could imagine was there: carrot cake, strawberry cheesecake, gooey butter cake, rich chocolate cake with four layers of cherries and whipped cream, birthday cakes that ...

ARIES March 21-April 19: “We never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough,” said Aries singer Billie Holiday. I don’t think...

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What would you pay for an iPhone 9 The iPhone 9, which will be released to a select few sometime next year, will do far...

ARIES March 21-April 19: “I have a simple philosophy,” said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a self-described hedonist who lived till the age of 96. “Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” That’s not an approach I recommend you pursue all the ...

Disclaimer: If you are a rabid prairie-dog defender, you might want to skip this item...

So, we have a story in this week’s issue about the tens of millions of dollars the state uses to compensate communities for their losses when oil and gas companies and other land pillagers move in, do their business, then pull out, so to speak...

ARIES March 21-April 19: According to a Sufi aphorism, you can’t be sure that you are in possession of the righteous truth unless a thousand...

ARIES March 21-April 19: One of the greatest superpowers a human being can have is the ability to change herself in accordance with her intentions. Let’s say you’re tired of feeling shame about something there’s no good reason to feel shame about, and you decide to ...

Dennis McKenna yawns. He’s at the end of his consciousness cycle, he says, and his body, nothing more than a system of intakes and...