by Mark Duggan | Aug 2, 2020
Listen to the Interview http://openrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Art-Bots-Web-Mix.mp3 Social media can be a minefield of human ugliness. Especially in the age of COVID. Political attack ads and conspiracy theories fill social feeds. Much of it is posted...
by Mark Duggan | Jun 7, 2020
Listen to the Interview Mark Duggan talks to Darrah Blackwater about her work to bring fast internet to tribal lands. http://openrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Darrah-Blackwater-Tribal-Broadband.mp3 Darrah Blackwater sees radio waves as a natural resource....
by Mark Duggan | Dec 7, 2015
Jeronimo Cruz gets pretty excited about bodies. Celestial bodies. Constellations, nebulae, star clusters. He shares them all with childlike enthusiasm, making him the perfect guide for the nightly viewing program at Kitt Peak National Observatory west of...
by Mark Duggan | Nov 4, 2013
Tucson, Ariz. – A recipe for how to make an 8.4-meter telescope mirror: Ingredient: About 44,000 pounds of glass chunks. Instructions: Load glass chunks into 27-foot diameter mold. Place mold in giant spinning oven and set for five revolutions-per-minute. Cook...
by Mark Duggan | Jun 13, 2012
Tucson, Ariz. – The Benedictine Sanctuary is adorned with religious statuary and glows in the desert sun. A domed tower rises high above the sanctuary. It’s the very definition of a stately, Old World edifice. A few feet away, the rows of solar panels create a...
