A touching National Geographic special presentation called Unlikely Animal Friends is set to air on Saturday, September 26, 2009. Expect it to be a tear-jerker. Unlikely Animal Friends tells the story of animals...
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“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.“ - Galileo Galilei How do you feel about your right to privacy? Suppose your neighbor possessed technology capable of remotely recording detailed images of...
I was listening this past weekend to an NPR story about the history of chewing gum (see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106439600&ft=1&f=1032). ...
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National Geographic has released their top ten news stories of 2008.From a squid to a 'sky frown' these are what make our world a fascinating place to be. "These are the most read stories covered by National...
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Stonehenge stood as giant tombstones to the dead for centuries—perhaps marking the cemetery of a ruling prehistoric dynasty—new radiocarbon dating suggests (2). The site appears to have been intended as a...
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The 12th Annual Webby Award winners have been announced and the internet's most webtastic winners include: the formidable, satire-free news institution The New York Times, the satirical news site The Onion,...
The Vesuvius is one of the most interesting active explosive volcano on the Earth famous for the eruption of 79 A.D that destroyed Pompeii and Ercolanum not so far from Naples in Campania, South Italy....
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Over 75 years before Christopher Columbus set sail to discover The New World, Chinese explorer and seafarer Zheng He led seven expeditions from the coast of China to all parts of the known and then unknown world.
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For those of you who do not know who Lisa Ling
is take a look at the picture on the left. Aside from being super-model
worthy in photos she is a cutting edge, reporter who has worked on the
popular talk show, The...
From the National Geographic: Small changes in Earth's orbit and tilt may have regulated the cyclical rise and fall of many prehistoric mammal species, new research suggests.Earth's orbital patterns are believed to drive long-term climate change.Over millions of years these...
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