TagsTagsNational Geographic Channel has a fascinating and beautifully designed interactive site for their show: The Human Family Tree. On a single day on a single street, with the DNA of just a couple of hundred random people, National Geographic Channel sets out to trace the ancestral footsteps of all humanity. ...
National Geographic strips away the skyscrapers, the traffic, and the humans, and visualizes the island of Manhattan in the early years of the 17th century. [Video]
It’s pretty cool that National Geographic is putting full-length shows on YouTube with minimal advertising, and allowing embedding. Lots of interesting stuff on fireworks in this one... [Video]
For Mother’s Day tomorrow, the National Geographic Channel has a fascinating show in the works, titled In The Womb: Extreme Animals, exploring the reproduction of four different animals with real-time 4D ultrasound images. Here’s a video clip of the section dealing with a penguin fetus and its extraordinary method of ...
The 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin is this Thursday, February 12th, and the National Geographic Channel has another interesting show tonight that retraces Darwin’s famous expedition to the Galapagos archipelago in the eastern Pacific Ocean, using his diary and field notes as a travel guide: Darwin’s Secret ...
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Here’s another interesting excerpt from the three-part series Morphed, airing tonight on the National Geographic Channel. [Video]
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I sure am glad there are none of these things running around the neighborhood at 30 mph any more. (An excerpt from the National Geographic Channel’s three-part series Morphed, airing tomorrow.) [Video]
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Coming up this weekend on the National Geographic Channel, Morphed, a show about the documented evolutionary changes that gradually transformed land-dwelling mammals into whales, dinosaurs into turkeys, and bears into ... better bears. The website for the show has some very cool graphics and videos. Set your TiVos and EyeTVs. ...
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National Geographic looks at the Abdul Rahman case, and lays down a nice coat of whitewash on the subject of Islamic apostasy laws, asking the question: Does Islam Allow for Death Penalty for Converts? (Hat tip: Doss.) Of course it does, in nearly every Muslim nation. But don’t let that fool ...
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