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Metro's 2017 Gift Guide: Give Back to Get Back

Other perennial favorites include Storm Watch, Cactus Flower and Watermelon Lemonade ... Christmas calls for oversize cotton-stuffed animals, big yellow tractors and alphabet trains with wooden tracks ... read more

An Amateur Rancher Brings the Wastelands of the Southwest Back to Life

What's a Manhattan society girl to do when she finds herself living on acres of desiccated, left-for-dead earth in the Southwest ... soil turned to rock, plants and trees were left high and dry on the ... read more

Giant killers: macropredation in lions

Like it or not, we can assume that lions at the other end of the animal will now begin feeding. The elephant might take about 30 minutes to die. It does not sound nice, or look nice. I empathise with ... read more

3-day excursion uncovers ancient art, serpents

Black came from iron; red and yellow, from desert plants. Some images are phenomenally ... accompany us on a ride through the high desert of cactus, mesquite, aromatic wormwood and desert lavender. Mu... read more

Who Doesn't Vaccinate?

There’s an important paper in the New England Journal of Medicine this week about vaccine refusal, providing some alarming statistics on this growing phenomenon. Let’s begin with the basics: In the U. ... read more

59 new restaurants, bars and coffee shops that have opened in Tucson in 2018

A lot of new eateries and bars have opened in the Old Pueblo in 2018. Here's a list of some of the notable local spots to add to your must-try list. Reporting by Andi Berlin, Cathalena E. Burch and Ge... read more

Dayton Duncan Interview

It's accessible to so many people for so many different reasons ... They found 178 or so new species of plants and 122 new species of animals. They encountered Indian tribes, an amazing diversity of I... read more

There are no marching morons

People, they are us. There are no grounds to argue that there are distinct subpopulations of people with different potentials for intelligence. Genes flow fluidly — if you sneer at the underclass and ... read more

Stephen Ambrose Interview

He knew, not an awful lot but quite alot about the classification of plants, about how to describe animals, about how to shoot the sun ... It was a platoon-sized force that varied at various times in ... read more