National Geographic World Talk
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Interviews from around the globe with the world's most compelling scientists, explorers, photographers and thinkers. (Author: National Geographic)
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Recent episodes from National Geographic World Talk
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Published: Feb 22, 08The looks of love: you???ll find them in a new book featuring 150 photographs by some of the greatest photographers of our time, all of them capturing this ineffable emotion in unique and unexpected ways. But how can a photographer capture the power of love in still images? Does Love sit still? Author Ferdinand Protzman has some answers.
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Published: Feb 15, 08Mark Moffett is an entomologist by training, but he loves frogs, too, and he???s spent a good bit of time getting to know them over the years. In this interview, he tells us about a frog that dances like John Travolta and why deadly poison-dart frogs are some of the best moms in the animal kingdom.
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Published: Feb 15, 08Mark Moffett is an entomologist by training, but he loves frogs, too, and he???s spent a good bit of time getting to know them over the years. In this interview, he tells us about a frog that dances like John Travolta and why deadly poison-dart frogs are some of the best moms in the animal kingdom.
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Published: Feb 8, 08During the harsh years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Afghan girls were banned from going to school and most women were prevented from working. Sakena Yacoobi defied the Taliban???s laws and risked her life to set up secret schools for girls. Since the fall of the Taliban she???s brought education and training to some 350,000 Afghan women and girls.
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Published: Feb 8, 08During the harsh years of Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Afghan girls were banned from going to school and most women were prevented from working. Sakena Yacoobi defied the Taliban???s laws and risked her life to set up secret schools for girls. Since the fall of the Taliban she???s brought education and training to some 350,000 Afghan women and girls.
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Published: Feb 1, 08One of the world???s top mountaineers pays tribute to the memory of Sir Edmund Hillary, whose conquest of Everest made him one of the 20th century???s iconic explorers. Pete Athans tells us how Sir Ed inspired him not just as a climber, but also as a humanitarian.
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Published: Feb 1, 08One of the world???s top mountaineers pays tribute to the memory of Sir Edmund Hillary, whose conquest of Everest made him one of the 20th century???s iconic explorers. Pete Athans tells us how Sir Ed inspired him not just as a climber, but also as a humanitarian.
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Published: Jan 25, 08Chris Rainier shares some of the important lessons he learned from his mentor, Ansel Adams, and he tells us why he cares so much about documenting and helping preserve endangered indigenous cultures around the globe.
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Published: Jan 25, 08Chris Rainier shares some of the important lessons he learned from his mentor, Ansel Adams, and he tells us why he cares so much about documenting and helping preserve endangered indigenous cultures around the globe.
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Published: Jan 18, 08Ramen noodles in outer space???a buried kingdom in Indonesia that could be the Pompeii of Asia???and some tips on the best way to recycle your old computer: It???s all part of this week???s roundup of stories from National Geographic magazine, with deputy editor Marc Silver.
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Published: Jan 18, 08Ramen noodles in outer space???a buried kingdom in Indonesia that could be the Pompeii of Asia???and some tips on the best way to recycle your old computer: It???s all part of this week???s roundup of stories from National Geographic magazine, with deputy editor Marc Silver.
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Published: Jan 11, 08Mountain lions, wetlands and orchards???in Manhattan? Four hundred years ago, these were just a few of the features of a rich landscape that now encompasses one of the world???s iconic cities. Eric Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society tells us about his project to reconstruct Manhattan???s centuries-old ecology.
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Published: Jan 11, 08Mountain lions, wetlands and orchards???in Manhattan? Four hundred years ago, these were just a few of the features of a rich landscape that now encompasses one of the world???s iconic cities. Eric Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society tells us about his project to reconstruct Manhattan???s centuries-old ecology.
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Published: Jan 4, 08Wildlife photographer Frans Lanting and Carl Safina, the president of the Blue Ocean Institute, check in from Midway Atoll in the central Pacific--one of the most remote places on Earth, at the end of the Northwest Hawaiian Island chain. Midway is teeming with wildlife, but it???s the albatrosses that interest Frans and Carl the most.
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Published: Jan 4, 08Wildlife photographer Frans Lanting and Carl Safina, the president of the Blue Ocean Institute, check in from Midway Atoll in the central Pacific--one of the most remote places on Earth, at the end of the Northwest Hawaiian Island chain. Midway is teeming with wildlife, but it???s the albatrosses that interest Frans and Carl the most.
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