Explorer

Explorers in Our Midst: What the James Cameron Voyage Can Tell Us

Larry Bock | Posted 04.02.2012

Larry Bock

What does it take to be an explorer? What are the challenges and risks? What are the payoffs? These are some of the questions that young students and others will get answered at the USA Science & Engineering Festival.

Record-Setting Explorer Eric Larsen: Why And How He Does It

Avital Binshtock | Posted 12.18.2011

Avital Binshtock

Eric Larsen, 40, is the first person to have reached the South Pole, the North Pole and the summit of Mount Everest within the span of one year. The goal is to get people to care -- and do something -- about climate change, the effects of which Larsen saw first hand on his journeys.

Andrew Burmon

VIDEO: Columbus As Explorer And World-Class Jerk

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.10.2011

Christopher Columbus's life is proof that the process of discovery doesn't begin or end with landfall. Columbus didn't go looking for a new world and,...

Walking on a Dream - Alone Across Iran Part 4

Mark Kalch | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Kalch

This is part 4 in a 4 part series. Limbo Leaving the Zagros, the terrain hung in a sort of limbo.  In the late evenings as I searched for a suitab...

Walking on a Dream -- Alone Across Iran (Part III)

Mark Kalch | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Kalch

Soon the plateau began to change. No longer rolling hills and rocky terrain, I now walked towards daunting peaks. I had begun to enter the Zagros Mountains.

Dancing Frogs And Nature Photography With Mark Moffett

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011

Steven Crandell

Ecologist and explorer Mark Moffett was in Brazil trying to get a photograph of a frog dancing. Honest. He says no one had ever done it before. U...

Internet Explorer Is Still King Of All Browsers

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Which web browser rules them all? It's not geek favorite Mozilla Firefox, or fast-growing newcomer Google Chrome. It's the classic clunker Internet ...

Columbus Day Special: Colonialists And Conquerors (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Columbus Day may be celebrated as a patriotic holiday in the United States, but the man himself remains somewhat controversial. Some view Christopher ...