Tag: jan 02 2020 issue
Tall hemp attracts more bees
It’s 2020, and I want you to take a moment to imagine a world where Donald Trump isn’t president, health care is universal and...
The disinformation nation
It may be getting harder and harder to figure out the truth, but at least this much is clear: It’s a good time to...
Running through walls
Any music act with a unique sound is bound to sound familiar from album to album. But violinist Kev Marcus has no problem seeing...
#InstaNovels
You may think of Instagram as a platform for images, but it may be the next place you turn to read a novel.
Don’t scoff,...
Politicians, not markets, slow new energy dawn
Often blamed for society’s problems, politicians have now been brought to book for the slow take-up of renewable forms of energy.
These are now so...
A year of Trump
For those who make their living producing political cartoons, it could be argued that the election of Donald Trump was a godsend. It has...
Bottoming out
Dear Dan: I’m a 29-year-old gay man living in California. Why are most tops such assholes? I have had plenty of sexual partners ranging...
Legalization 2020: Let the people decide (the lawmakers are too chicken)
With the exception of Vermont, every state that has legalized recreational marijuana has done so by a vote of the people. What’s more, in...
Astrology 1/2/20
ARIES
March 21-April 19: “We are all hostages of the joy of which we deprive ourselves,” wrote poet Odysseus Elytis. Isn’t that an astounding idea?...
Now we are 63
In 1964, Britain’s
Granada Television charged researcher Michael Apted to select 14 7-year-olds
from disparate backgrounds for the documentary program, Seven
Up! Their aim: to get a...
Ford v Ferrari
There’s a scene halfway through Ford
v Ferrari where Carrol Shelby (Matt Damon) takes Henry Ford II (Tracy
Letts) for a spin on the test-track in...