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Art is useless, said Wilde. Art is for art's sake—that is, for beauty's sake. But why do we possess a sense of beauty to begin with? A question we will never answer. Perhaps it's just a kind of...

Today's Water Cooler

Judging by Wednesday night, they’re not even trying.

Taylor Manjarres is sentenced, Brightline's launch and the cost of driving cars, the evanescence of health.

It would have been nice if someone had told me how to go about learning to love God. Because I have discovered that, for most people, it is something that they have to learn.

Are you truly friends with someone if you haven't travelled together?

Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer, analyzed the future of the climate crisis as part of the Boston College Lowell Humanities Series on Wednesday night, explaining that it is not too late to combat the runaway greenhouse effect.

The woman who called to get the hose turned on sticks in my mind. That was one of my best days at work. But, really, even the bad days were pretty good.

Idaho Power Co. has applied to the state Public Utilities Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity associated with the proposed Boardman, Ore., to Hemingway, Idaho, transmission line.

Idaho Power Co. has applied to the state Public Utilities Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity associated with the proposed Boardman, Ore., to Hemingway, Idaho, transmission line.