“These mosquitoes really love me! Why aren't they biting you?" The reason why pests bother you, but not the person sitting next to you—or vice versa—probably comes down to a matter of scent.
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November 3, 2009 1:10 PM
Virtual Reality for the Real World
Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor
Colleague Anne Haywood (in Austin, Texas) and I (at NatGeo headquarters in Washington, D.C.) got together virtually last week to discuss the ways National Geographic is using new media to inspire people to care about the planet—and to help them understand it. We gave our presentation—or, at least, our avatars did—at the New Media Consortium’s Symposium for the Future in Second Life, an immersive, 3-D virtual world.
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National Geographic Emerging Explorer T.H. Culhane and his wife Sybille are passionate about energy and garbage. In fact, they are so committed to investigating new ways of approaching energy problems that they moved into a slum in Cairo, and are teaching the people there how to make solar water heaters from recycled materials and biogas from trash.
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In a remote region of Patagonia, enormous craters measuring up to 500 meters wide and 50 meters in depth could be evidence to a bombardment of meteorites. This meteoroid impact field, the largest in the southern hemisphere, is of extreme interest for National Geographic Society/Waitt grantee Rogelio Acevedo.
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August 29, 2009 1:09 PM
Gathering Beneath the Human Family Tree
Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor
Genographic Project team colleagues were up in New York's Queens borough landmark Astoria Park Monday night for an outdoor world premiere screening of The Human Family Tree. The documentary chronicles the globe-spanning ancestry of seven Astoria residents whose cheeks were swabbed on the same day.
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August 11, 2009 5:21 PM
Lost in Paisley: A Genographic Story
Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor
In anticipation of The Human Family Tree, a new special premiering on the National Geographic Channel August 30th, the Genographic Project has invited participants to share their family migration stories. If you've taken part in the Genographic Project and have a story to tell about your family's past, by all means do! Here's mine:
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Rachel Graham, a friend with National Geographic Books, wrote to let me know they'd made a video to promote Tornado Hunter: Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth. The book chronicles some of the monster funnels National Geographic grantee Tim Samaras has seen up close, and his harrowing adventures deploying cameras in their paths. You may have seen Tim's work featured in National Geographic magazine.
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Conservationist, marine biologist, and NatGeo Fellow Enric Sala and I drove to Dulles, Virginia on Friday to visit GeoEye headquarters. The company manages a fleet of Earth imaging satellites, including IKONOS and GeoEye-1, which traverse the globe from pole to pole every 90 minutes 423 miles (681 kilometers) overhead.
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Exactly 40 years after Neil Armstrong took his famous "one small step for man," and less than six months after adding the ocean to its virtual planet, Google unveiled the moon in Google Earth today.
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June 23, 2009 4:48 PM
The Future of Exploration: A Different Lens
Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor
Four National Geographic Emerging Explorers—Kristofer Helgen, Mike Wesch, Katsufumi Sato, and Nathan Wolfe—share their novel paradigms for understanding the world in these highlights from the 2009 Explorers Symposium.
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June 6, 2009 9:36 AM
Ballard's High-Tech Look on Ocean Worlds
Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor
Several of the Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) Robert Ballard uses to probe the deep were on display Monday at the ribbon-cutting for his new Inner Space Center. They're an essential part of Ballard's "telepresence" exploration scenario, which I described in an earlier post. The most rugged of the submersibles can descend more than 19,000 feet (6 kilometers) beneath the surface of the ocean, collecting samples and transmitting high-definition video from the abyss.
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