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"Ask a Genie" in bold text over a seemingly-innocous cartoon lamp.

Advice

Be Wrong Right: Ask a Genie

Our genie examines the kindness / rightness matrix.

Forecast

Ostrich Weekly Forecast: Mar 24

Advice from an automated substitute weatherman.

Forecast

Ostrich Weekly Forecast: Mar 17

Is Irish luck the right luck for you?

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Ostrich Weekly Forecast: Mar 10

The Week the Chickens Come Home to Roost.

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Ostrich Weekly Forecast: Mar 3

A secret identity for the OWG.

Some NASA guy in a protective suit inspects a bronze-colored framework with probably a toaster inside it.

Science

Ostrich Science Tour Bus: Feb '25

Four surprising science highlights.

Forecast

Ostrich Weekly Forecast: Feb 24

Feeling down? Try looking down.

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Ostrich Weekly Forecast: Feb 17

A late look at February's minor holidays.

Forecast

Ostrich Weekly Forecast: Feb 10

Lessons from a friendship between two writers.

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Ostrich Weekly Forecast: Feb 3

Here be the winter doldrums.

Forecast

Ostrich Weekly Forecast: Jan 27

Two-For-One Week at the Muse Guild!

"Ask a Genie" in newsprint text above an innocent-looking cartoon lamp.

Ask a Genie: The Perfectly Wrong Wish

For January's feature story, here's our resident genie, back to answer another reader's pressing question. Dear Genie, Doesn't it seem like some people are hell-bent on making the wrong wish? I mean exactly the wrong wish. A wish that does the polar

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