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ARIES March 21-April 19: Like Bob Dylan in his 1962 song “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” you’ve done a lot of rough and tumble living lately. You’ve “stumbled on the side of 12 misty mountains.” You’ve “stepped in the middle of seven sad forests.” You’ve “been out in...

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Visionary author Peter McWilliams wrote, “One of the most enjoyable aspects of solitude is doing what you want when you...

Perhaps the Donald could be more specific? In an attempt to get the presidential candidates to talk about something, you know, worthwhile, Scientific American partnered...

Colorado could have two state-wide psilocybin bills on 2022 ballot—one for legalization and another for decriminalization

Dear Dan: Is it a super douchey move to pretend to be a lesbian to avoid unwanted male attention? I’m a straight single woman...

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 ...

When Gov. Jared Polis signed Colorado’s SB23-290, the Natural Medicine Regulation and Legalization bill, it decriminalized five  natural psychedelic compounds: DMT, ibogaine, mescaline, psilocybin...

ARIES March 21-April 19: When astronaut Buzz Aldrin flew to the moon and back on the spacecraft Apollo 11 in 1969, he was paid less than $8 a day. That has to stand as one of the most flagrant cases of underpaid labor ever — far worse than what you’ve had to ...

ARIES MARCH 21-APRIL 19: “There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.” So says a character in Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Unconsoled. At this juncture in your life story, Aries, it might be healing for you to make a similar declaration. Now...

ARIES March 21-April 19: When the universe began 13.8 billion years ago, there were only four elements: mostly hydrogen and helium, plus tiny amounts of...

My laptop died last week. My laptop couldn’t die when I was in the office, with capable tech support people close by. Oh, no....

ARIES March 21-April 19: The Aries poet Anna Kamienska described the process of writing as akin to “the backbreaking work of hacking a footpath, as...