Healing, purification and holiness: how ancient Greeks, Romans and early Christians used olive oil

Roman author Pliny the Elder wrote that ‘There are two liquids that are especially agreeable to the human body: wine inside ...

Exclusive: Sperm whale speech has human-like 'vowels'

The latest discovery is that elements of their vocals function in a way that’s fascinatingly similar to human vowels, making ...

Review: How one woman spoke for the river in ‘The Water Remembers’

Amy Bower Cordalis’ “The Water Remembers” does not flow in a straight line. Her book “is written in the format of Yurok [the ...
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Water Witch Keeps Dowsing Tradition Alive on Nebraska Farmland

On a clear November day in east-central Nebraska’s Platte County, Hemmer dowses a small tract of farmland in search of a replacement spot for a collapsed irrigation well that pumped 550 gallons per ...
The Sopris Sun

Ute traditions inform water conservation in the Shining Mountains

If we take care of that water, we know that water is going to take care of us,” stated Lorelei Cloud, who has spent a ...