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Garden Week: A Floating National Park

Today we visit a hidden gem of Washington, D.C.: the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, an oasis of ponds filled with lotuses and waterlilies. This unusual National Park – the only aquatic gardens that are a National Park – were first dug in the 1800s by a Civil War veteran. This week, ...  Show more

Garden Week: A Sound Garden

An orchard of metal poles sits on a hill overlooking Lake Washington. And when the wind blows, this musical sculpture "sings the world into existence" with its unique sound. This week, we’re celebrating the arrival of spring with new and classic stories about unusual gardens arou ...  Show more

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Playback: Modern Lives, Ancient Caves
Overheard at National Geographic

There’s a lost continent waiting to be explored, and it’s right below our feet. We’ll dig into the deep human relationship to the underground—and why we understand it from an instinctive point of view, but not so much from a physical one. (Hint: We’re afraid of the dark.) In an e ...  Show more

Modern Lives, Ancient Caves
Overheard at National Geographic

There's a lost continent waiting to be explored, and it’s right below our feet. We’ll dig into the deep, human relationship to the underground, and why we understand it from an instinctive point of view — but not so much from a physical one. (Hint: we’re afraid of the dark.) Nati ...  Show more

Le risque de consanguinité est élevé en Islande
Incroyable !

Sur leur île de glace, les Islandais affrontent le froid, les geysers... et les risques de consanguinité !

Afin de se prémunir d'un tel écueil, cette nation insulaire a donc décidé d'employer les grands moyens... en élaborant une base de données sur la population locale  ...

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The Slate Island of Seil
Ramblings

Clare crosses the famous ‘Bridge over the Atlantic’ for a ramble on the island of Seil. Her guide is the writer, educator, and director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics, Norrie Bissell. Geopoetics is described as “creatively expressing the earth” and is critical of the weste ...  Show more