Tag: National Geographic

These days, we don’t think twice about checking email on our phones or working remotely, but when the Internet was in its infancy in the 1990s, it was another story. Remember when you couldn’t talk on a land line and surf the web at the same time? Technology has changed drastically over the last few […]

To celebrate the launch of its new “Explorer Academy” fiction series for kids, National Geographic created a recruitment center pop-up that offered interactive tests and activities, from a mini archeological dig to encountering live snakes to conducting experiments in a lab. The one-day event, which took place on Sept. 5 in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, celebrated […]

Many people won’t know exactly what to expect on Monday, Aug. 21, when the total solar eclipse makes its way across the U.S. We’ve been told that birds will stop chirping, the temperature will go down, the land will darken. Shards of sunlight, the ones we’re not supposed to look at with our naked eye, […]