Albuquerque-based musician Lukas Scarpetta wanted to form a jazz band that didn’t want to be a traditional jazz band. It was all about branching out, using jazz as a musical starting point but then ...

There is a packrat midden in Death Valley that contained fossilized remains of a cactus nearly twenty thousand years old. This proves that Opuntia basilaris was once far more plentiful around southern ...

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