Discovery Communications announced today that they are now offering video content within Google Earth, starting with 10 American National Parks, including Mount Rushmore and Yellowstone. When users zoom in to one of the featured sites, there will be a Discovery Globe icon which, when clicked, will launch a broadband player hosted by Discovery which will [...]
CNN.com featured an article today about NASA’s role in a global effort to monitor the Great Barrier Reef off Australia. NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, part of the Earth Observing System (EOS), are used to capture frequent data on ocean surface temperature and color, which are important indicators of the health of the reefs and [...]
Warning: Image slightly risque! Maxim Magazine has created a 75-by-110-foot billboard to celebrate its 100th issue. It features a cover image of Eva Longoria rather scantily dressed. What is interesting about this is the efforts the magazine took to produce the advertising. Is this the rather racy start to a general trend in Web 2.0 [...]
This is rather off the beat and path from our normal news, but I thought it was interesting given the National Geographic Society’s involvement. Apparently a National Geographic Society expedition has discovered a leather wrapped papyrus manuscript written in Greek in Egypt. This manuscript featuring what is believed to be the gospel according to Judas [...]
According to a USGS press release from yesterday, a Google Earth-based virtual tour of the devastating 1902 San Francisco will be announced during a press conference which was scheduled to start at 10am. The feed from the news conference was supposed to stream live from the USGS website, but I was finally able to connect [...]
