As a child, Amundsen dreamed of exploring the North Pole. Yet it is his discovery of the South Pole for which he is best known. Read Amundsen’s exciting account of his groundbreaking expedition.
that reminded one more of fish-glue than of anything else
This 10th-grader from New York reflects on how the colliding of continental plates and glaciers helped shape the „mysterious and majestic“ Palisades.
rock from somewhere far away and leaves it somewhere else
Neil deGrasse Tyson leads a panel discussion on the future of water on Earth and what we can learn about this precious resource from the study of other planets and the wider universe.
Everyone else says I have the answer, whether or not
to come up with a brand-new solution when nothing else
This young naturalist makes observations about the seven subspecies of marine iguana that live on the Galapagos Islands.
archipelago to the mainland and establish itself somewhere else
Join a Museum mammalogist for a talk about the search for small fossils, like those of bats and rodents, at La Venta, a fossil-rich site in central Colombia.
different fossil bone, and hands it over to someone else
Commemoration touches simultaneously upon at least four temporalities: the moment of a life or event, the moment of a marker or text, the moment of an encounter, and the anticipation of a future consequence. Commemoration interweaves (not always easily) issues surrounding remembrance, honor, values, community and power. Is it any wonder that our memory work is so out of joint? Names and statues, art and symbols—these things constellate around themselves multiple temporalities, shifting values, shaky memories, and new histories. As figures of stability, they are deeply unstable. Considering a range of cases—Mary Sully’s personality prints, Jacob Lawrence’s American Struggle series, sports mascots, the American Museum of Natural History’s Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt, campus re-namings, among others—this talk will contemplate the uncertainty of temporality that lingers amidst the seeming certainties of iconoclasm and commemoration alike.
00:08:52.020 Phillip Deloria: You know, everybody else
Marine geologist Veronique Robigou discusses the exciting research being done at the bottom of the ocean.
Someone else might be spending the night conducting
Join Neil deGrasse Tyson and our panel of experts for a dynamic discussion about the environmental implications of the private space exploration era.
Station, out of which only 5,000 work and everything else
A guide to freshwater mussels of the New York Metro Area and New Jersey, with photos, area maps and details about various species.
from the Hackensack River and is rare everywhere else
