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Printing homes of hemp
Texas A&M set to start 3D printing homes with “hempcrete” after getting $3.8 million grant from the federal government
Astrology 7/7/22
ARIES
March 21-April 19: With a fanciful flourish, Aries poet Seamus Heaney wrote, “I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might quicken...
8th Annual 101 Word Fiction Contest
Welcome to the eighth annual 101-word fiction contest. We took great joy in reading the nearly 100 reader-submitted entries. We chose the 13 submissions...
For whom the bowl tolls
A close brush with a drug cop on the far side of the Earth almost ends in a third-world prison
Astrology 6/30/22
ARIES
March 21-April 19: My readers and I have collaborated to provide insights and inspirations about the topic “How to Be an Aries.” Below is...
Savage Love 6/30/22
(Weekly deadlines being what they are, this column was written before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.)
We knew this was coming, thanks to...
Spilling over into traffic
Cannabis legalization actually makes traffic safer, new research suggests—stacking another reason against prohibition
Astrology 6/23/22
ARIES
March 21-April 19: In her poem “Two Skins,” Bahamanian writer Lynn Sweeting writes, “There is a moment in every snake’s life when she wears...
The cannabis war rages on
It’s a nice thought to imagine the end of the cannabis prohibition being a single event. It would be a satisfying final concession from...
Pride and preference
I’m taking a week off, so this week’s “Savage Love” is a reprint of a column that was originally published on January 13, 2016....
Thailand’s green gold rush
Thailand beats U.S. to end prohibition of cannabis, decriminalize sale and cultivation, and expunge cannabis convictions