Mar 8th, 2013 at 3:00PM:
Astronomers are calling 2013 "the year of the comet" as the first of two comets set to swing by Earth comes within view of the naked eye. Some avid sky watchers may be viewing with binoculars. Others may get an even closer view, thanks to a German travel agency.
On March 16, Eclipse Travel of Bonn, Germany, will have Air Berlin's flight 1000 full of stargazers, giving them two hours closer ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Flight To Comet Sold Out But There Are Other Options
Mar 8th, 2013 at 3:00PM:
Astronomers are calling 2013 "the year of the comet" as the first of two comets set to swing by Earth comes within view of the naked eye. Some avid sky watchers may be viewing with binoculars. Others may get an even closer view, thanks to a German travel agency.
On March 16, Eclipse Travel of Bonn, Germany, will have Air Berlin's flight 1000 full of stargazers, giving them two hours closer ...Video Of The Day: Kiribati Sinking
Aug 1st, 2012 at 6:30PM:
"A Sinking Nation" from NPR on Vimeo.
Kiribati (pronounced kirr-i-bas) is an island nation spread across a chunk of the Pacific Ocean as big as Alaska two times over. But for all of the room Kiribati covers in distance, it accumulates virtually no space vertically. The average height of Kiribati land is just six and a half feet above sea level. Composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral, ...
Kiribati: A Disappearing Nation?
May 8th, 2007 at 4:30PM: Ever since I read J. Maarten Troost's hilarious book, The Sex Lives of Cannibals, I've wanted to visit the island nation in which the story takes place: Kiribati. It appears that there's not a whole lot to do there -- except go diving and savor a culture fairly different from my own -- but that's sort of the point.
Kiribati -- a remote nation of 33 islands, 14 hours by plane from the nearest ...
