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ARIES March 21-April 19: “The clouds are the most fertile part of the sky,” writes Guy Murchie in his book The Seven Mysteries of Life. Microbes with short life cycles live there in abundance, “eating, breathing, excreting, floating, swimming, competing, reproducing...

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: For every trillion dollars the U.S. government spends on the military, it creates about 11,000 jobs. That same expenditure, if directed toward education, creates 27,000 jobs. Personally, I’d rather have the taxes I pay go to teachers than ...

Dear Dan: I'm a 35-year-old straight woman living in the Midwest. I was seeing a massage therapist for three years and we became very close...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries director Francis Ford Coppola was asked to name the year’s worst movie. The question didn’t interest him, he said....

Here is our periodic list of noteworthy but not-so-famous souls who have recently left us...

A good way to gauge where things stand in the marijuana legalization wars a week before Election Day is to follow the money. And the...

ARIES March 21-April 19: German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) declared that English writer Lord Byron (1788-1824) was the greatest genius of the 19th...

ARIES March 21-April 19: “The prettier the garden, the dirtier the hands of the gardener,” writes aphorist B. E. Barnes. That’ll be especially applicable to...

In the U.S., the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) holds the keys when it comes to accessing research-grade schedule I drugs. Labs and scientists submit...

Despite the fact that 33 states have legalized medical marijuana, and a handful have passed laws allowing for adult recreational use, marijuana is still...

I was taught that the two things that I love the most, homosexuality and weed, were completely evil,” says David Schmader, speaker, essayist and author...

Dear Dan: I'm a cis bi guy in my 40s who doesn’t have a lot of experience with other men. I'm happily married to...