Share this article Why do explorers still take risks to reach the Poles, even when most ‘firsts’ have been claimed and records broken? Avid Pole-seeker and featured contributor Leon McCarron explains. When I was 10, I wanted to go to the South Pole. When I was 15, I decided that I’d like to go to […]
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Daily Podcast: Is The Breaking Bad Movie A Good Idea? The 4400, Netflix, Paddington 3, Explorers & The Color Purple
On the November 7, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including a Breaking Bad movie, the future of Netflix theatrical releases, Paddington 3, an Explorers TV series, and […]
Does the world need explorers now more than ever?
Jini Reddy October 10, 2018 Share this article He’s one of the last of the ‘classic explorers’ of our time, regularly going off-grid and into the unknown—adventurer Benedict Allen talks to Jini Reddy about the importance of disconnecting, engaging, and documenting the world we live in. “It might sound counter-intuitive, but we are entering a […]
Rugged white guys with beards? Nope, most of my favorite explorers are women
Share this article If you took pop culture as gospel, you’d think the only people who take on any pioneering exploits were posh, hairy, white men. But plenty of badass women have grabbed adventure by the horns over the centuries too. There are two definitions for the term ‘pioneer’ in the modern Oxford English Dictionary. […]
Google maps sent explorers into a live volcano and THIS is what they found
Ambrym, in the Malampa Province, is an active volcanic island and can be found of Google Maps. According to Volcano Discovery, Ambrym volcano was last recorded erupting in February this year. The island’s main volcano is 12-km wide and is one of the most active volcanoes in the world. However, thanks to Google, no longer […]
Ford again urged to recall Explorers for exhaust leaks before 'luck runs out'
A prominent automotive safety advocacy group is renewing its call for Ford to recall 1.3 million Explorer SUVs from model years 2011 through 2017 amid rising complaints that dangerous carbon monoxide is leaking into the cabins and causing headaches, nausea, vomiting and other ailments. The Washington D.C.-based Center for Auto Safety says complaints to the […]
Inside the ultra-elite Explorers Club that counts Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and James Cameron as members
Harrison Jacobs/Business Insider; Reuters The Explorers Club is an ultra-elite club in New York that serves as a meeting place for explorers, scientists, and the moneyed-elite who fund expeditions. Its members include astronaut Buzz Aldrin, President Teddy Roosevelt, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and film director James Cameron. The Manhattan clubhouse is […]
Ford Recalls 177,000 2016 F-150s and Explorers for Loose Seat Mounting
– Ford is recalling 177,264 trucks and SUVs in the United States for loose seats. The automaker said the 2016 F-150 and Explorer have front power-seat sliding tracks that may have loose bolts, which could cause the seat to move excessively in a crash. – Full details, including when Ford discovered the defect and how […]
Earth’s 1st interstellar explorers have been chosen, and they’re tiny
The Starlight program has selected both tardigrades and a species of roundworm as the Earth’s first interstellar voyagers who will cross the solar system at relativistic speeds on a laser-powered craft. “It will not be easy,” said Philip Lubin, head of the Starlight program at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), as cited by […]
‘Bringing dead city back to life’: Urban explorers turn on Chernobyl lights (PHOTOS)
Two Polish urban explorers have lit up the city of Pripyat which was abandoned after the nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant in 1986. Krystian Machnik and Adam Bojanowski, who are founders of an online group that visits and documents sites contaminated with radioactivity, say they were driven to make the pilgrimage to the site […]