Is anyone in Sanford, South Dakota this evening? I'm very curious to know what my old friend Markus Horn is getting up to these days...

Deep Talks: LUX: Hunting for Unicorns (Dark Matter) in the Black Hills

The badlands are named such not for their beauty or danger, but for the fact that they are almost entirely agriculturally useless throughout this continent's recorded history.

When the government was giving out 160-acre squares in the late 1800's to whomever would live and farm the land after paying a small fee, every single one of the plots was bought up.

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