Being a fan of both travel and maps, it’s no surprise that I like many things from National Geographic. Their latest endeavor is an iPad app, telling and showing us 50 different places around the world that would be good to visit. National Geographic’s 50 Places of a Lifetime: The World’s ...

Being a fan of both travel and maps, it’s no surprise that I like many things from National Geographic. Their latest endeavor is an iPad app, telling and showing us 50 different places around the world that would be good to visit. National Geographic’s 50 Places of a Lifetime: The World’s ...

As someone who loves geography and particularly maps, I’ve had various maps on my walls for years, allowing for closer study and decoration that is both beautiful and educational. Some maps can be more utilitarian, giving you only the information you need for a certain task, but some can add ...

Just when we think we’ve found the biggest, longest, largest, or whatever-est of things, nature and man’s ability to discover new things continue to amaze us. Last year, a cave was found in central Vietnam, and is only now really getting explored. Mark Jenkins recently spent some time there, and it ...

As someone who has subscribed to National Geographic frequently through the years, amassed several shelves of the magazine, reaches for it first at any dentist office visit (my dentist doesn’t subscribe to Wired) and continues to make use of the magazine in my kids’ school projects, I was quite interested ...

The editors at National Geographic have put together a list of the Top Ten Weirdest New Animals of 2010. Some look similar to species we have already seen, and some are downright odd. The article contains a slide show of the ten animals, giving a few paragraphs of information for ...

Do you have a budding photographer in your house? If your Ansel Adams or Mathew Brady is aged 6-14, they can enter this year’s National Geographic International Photography Contest for Kids. The competition is partnered with the US version of National Geographic Kids magazine. The deadline is November 1, 2010, ...

As someone who loves geography and particularly maps, I’ve had various maps on my walls for years, allowing for closer study and decoration that is both beautiful and educational. Some maps can be more utilitarian, giving you only the information you need for a certain task, but some can add ...

National Geographic Traveler magazine’s Peeps in Places is happening once again! They want all of their readers to send in fun photos for their Peep photo gallery. So get out your cameras! Get out your Peeps! Well, go out and buy some Peeps! Then take the Peeps along with you ...

At first glance, it would be easy to mistake World of Zoo for a cuter version of Zoo Tycoon, but once you start playing the game, the different approach between the two zoo sims becomes obvious.  While the Zoo Tycoon series tended to focus on the planning and management aspect, ...