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

Larry Bock | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Authors, Science, Explorer, STEM Education, Engineering, James Cameron, National Geographic, Astronauts, Science and Engineering Festival, The Titanic, DC News
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.

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

Avital Binshtock | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Antarctica, Training, Expedition, Travel, Tibet, Climbing, Motivation, North Pole, Terrapass, Arctic, Save the Poles, Eric Larsen, Norway, Climate Change, Himalaya, Explorer, South Pole, Mount Everest, Adventure Travel, Travel News
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.

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Andrew Burmon

VIDEO: Columbus As Explorer And World-Class Jerk

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Burmon | Posted 12.10.2011

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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,...

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Walking on a Dream - Alone Across Iran Part 4

Mark Kalch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Persian Gulf, Islamic Republic of Iran, Middle East, Expedition, Tehran, Advenutre, Trekking, Explorer, Travel News
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...

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

Mark Kalch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Adventure, Esfahan, Islamic Republic of Iran, Middle East, Expedition, Tehran, Afghanistan, Explorer, Cocaine, Solo, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Zagros, Opium, Travel News
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.

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Dancing Frogs And Nature Photography With Mark Moffett

Steven Crandell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Extreme Exposure, Adventure, Nature, Mark Moffett, National Geographic, Annenberg Space for Photography, Environment, Ants, Tarantula, Smithsonian, Frogs, Animals, Video, Spiders, Harvard, Cambodia, Explorer, California, Asia, Arts News
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...

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Internet Explorer Is Still King Of All Browsers

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet Browsers, Chrome, Poll, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Explorer, Browsers, Web Browsers, Google, Technology News

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 ...

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

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Colony, Slidepoll, Rhodes Scholar, Napoleon, Columbus, Explorer, Alexander the Great, Columbus Day Celebration at Honduras, National Day of Mourning Columbus, Columbus Day, New York Columbus Day ,Photos, Article 10/12/09 Christopher Columbus, Van Gelder Columbus, What Is So Special About Columbus, Columbus Italian Imperialist, Hero or Tyrant, Columbus Day Special, Special for Columbus Day, Buzz Aldrin Columbus Day 2009 Photos, Columbus Day Around the World, World News

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

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