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Feed SubscriptionAn Entertaining Way to Turn a Profit: Arizona Pro DJs
Will Curran turned his passion for entertaining and music into a successful one-stop shop business for teen events. Will Curran loves music. He also loves to entertain.
Read More »Why Frito-Lay Built The Cleanest Manufacturing Facility In The U.S.
Their new Arizona plant is a test case for every conceivable kind of sustainable upgrade to manufacturing.
Read More »Routine Maintenance Plunges Southern California into Darkness
This morning, power was restored to almost 4 million residents in Arizona, Southern California, and northern Mexico after a major blackout swept through the area yesterday afternoon.
Read More »Don’t Eat The Yellow Snow: Arizona Ski Resort Plans To Make Powder Out Of Sewage
Because there isn't enough snow in Arizona to support a ski range, the Snowbowl Resort is making its own snow. But the only water available is wastewater. Some people are not pleased.
Read More »Rainlog.org
Help University of Arizona researchers track rainfall throughout the state [More]
Read More »Most Interesting Discovered Species of 2010 Announced
A jumping cockroach.
Read More »The southwest bike tire massacre
I recently visited Tucson, Arizona and was happy to see a fair amount of people riding bicycles rather than driving through the city’s downtown area. There are wide bike lanes and plenty of racks for parking, and even a monthly street fair where bikers can pick up new and used parts or equipment. All this plus a mostly sunny forecast made Tucson seem like an ideal biking locale, until a friend who lives in the area pointed to the numerous needles and burrs sticking out of his bike tires.
Read More »Immigration Tracked Through Desert Detritus
By Nadia Drake of Nature magazine Every year, thousands of undocumented migrants make the dangerous crossing from Mexico to Arizona in the United States through the Sonoran Desert. [More]
Read More »Karrie Webb wins LPGA Founders Cup
Karrie Webb rallied to win the LPGA Founders Cup for her second straight victory, shooting a 6-under 66 on Sunday to beat Brittany Lincicome and Paula Creamer by a stroke.
Read More »From One Physicist to Another: Lawrence Krauss Reflects on the Life and Work of Richard Feynman
Editor's note: Below is an excerpt from QUANTUM MAN: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (W. W
Read More »Book illuminates life, legacy of physicist Feynman
From childhood sweetheart to quantum electrodynamics, the life and scientific contributions of the legendary Richard Feynman, a physicist of mythic hero status, are given a new and stimulating perspective in a book by Arizona State University professor Lawrence M. Krauss.
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