Showing posts with label National Geographic Channel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Geographic Channel. Show all posts

Friday, January 13, 2012

30 years to the day of heartbreaking Washington National-Ft. Lauderdale Flight 90 - Washington Post video: Air Florida crash: Reflections on a tragic day in D.C.




Washington Post video: Air Florida #90 crash: Reflections on a tragic day in D.C. Washington Post reporters Jura Koncius and Peter Perl, who covered the crash for the paper 30 years ago, reflect on the events that day. January 13, 2012.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/air-florida-crash-reflections-on-a-tragic-day-in-dc/2012/01/12/gIQAANhytP_video.html?hpid=z5


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-buzz/post/air-florida-crash-washington-post-coverage-from-jan-14-1982/2012/01/12/gIQAVta5tP_blog.html


Later today in this space I will share some memories of that day, one of the days in my four years at IU that are still crystal clear to me because of all the many other South Florida-based Hoosiers on campus that I spoke to that day, all of whom, like me and our friends at FSU and in Gainesville, used Air Florida frequently, and were desperate to get details on passenger names.


I first got the news of the crash from Dan Rather via a CBS-News Special Report, as people on my floor started yelling for everyone to immediately turn on their TVs.



CBS News Special Report Intros, 1968-present
http://youtu.be/OK29Mnkxi3Y




Above, the 14th Street Bridge, scene of the disaster 30 years ago, is framed at the top of this morning's Washington Post, with a photo showing an airline preparing to make that banking turn that all planes landing and taking-off at present-day Washington Reagan National Airport must do to avoid flying over the District's restricted space, something I came to take for granted when I lived there and watched the planes from Gravelly Point.
"Long ago, the scene of disaster," The Washington Post, January 13, 2012


If you are a frequent visitor to this blog, it will probably not come as any great surprise to you that the Miami Herald and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel do NOT have a single story today about the 30th anniversary of the tragic Air Florida crash in their newspapers, despite the fact that Ft. Lauderdale was its final destination.
I'm not telling you anything new when I say that's as good an indication as any of how truly bad and lazy journalism has gotten in South Florida.



National Geographic Channel - Seconds from Disaster: Air Florida Flight 90. Originally aired September 27, 2006. http://youtu.be/9yANjWmRS-U

Friday, September 2, 2011

Who you calling chicken? National Geographic Channel video demonstrates why fossilized remains rarely have intact skin when found by paleontologists


National Geographic Channel video: Fossilized Chicken: Very Little Skin and Bones.



National Geographic Channel video: Fossilized Chicken -In the Flesh

Clips from the upcoming National Geographic Channel program Jurassic CSI: In the Flesh, premiering next Friday night, September 9th, at 8 p.m. Eastern.

Yes, it will definitely be Pollo Tropical night next Friday chez-blog!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Volcanoes tonight on Nat'l Geo. Channel: thinking about Thrinukagigur before the ticking timebomb that's Mount Nyiragongo devours Goma's 1M residents





National Geographic Channel: Into Iceland's Volcano
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/expedition-week-main/

Related article at
http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/expedition-week/5782/Overview#tab-Overview

Feel like probing the volatility of Iceland's Thrinukagigur volcano, located close to our quarrelsome friend from last spring, Eyjafjallajökull?
No takers?

Well, some scientists, perhaps knowing of your sheepishness towards going inside a volcano thought it'd be fun, and tonight they report on what they found.


You might be interested in knowing that according to the very friendly and accommodating folks at www.IcelandTouristBoard.com, whom I hear from once in a while,
"While the world famous Eyjafjallajokull volcano wreaked havoc for millions of travelers, it resulted in a 16 % increase in tourism from N. America to our island nation for the first 11 months of 2010, versus the same period last year."
If you have never been to Iceland -home to HBB favorite Yohanna- and for more than just a weekend, it's AWESOME!
AWESOME TIMES TEN!


National Geographic Channel's Into Iceland's Volcano airs tonight at 9 pm. and repeats at midnight and 8 and 11 p.m. Friday.


After that visit to the far north, the
National Geographic Channel sets its sights farther south and goes to Africa's most active volcano, Mount Nyiragongo, which is a ticking time-bomb for Goma's one million residents under the volcano.



National Geographic Channel video: Man vs. Volcano: Descending into the Lava Lake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baJVipcVNpg


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The Daily Mail
Deadly volcano that's one of the most dangerous on Earth... but scientists can't predict when it will erupt as it's in the middle of a war zone

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 6:38 PM on 31st March 2011

Mount Nyiragongo is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world - and scientists say it is only a matter of time before it makes the city below a modern day Pompeii.


But they don't know when since, located as it is in the war-torn eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the two mile high cauldron of lava is also one of the least well understood.


Read the rest of the article, along with amazing photos featured in the new April 2011 National Geographic magazine
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1371412/Central-African-volcano-threatens-turn-city-new-Pompeii.html

National Geographic Channel's
Descending into the Lava Lake airs tonight at 10 pm. and repeats at 1 a.m. and Friday at 7 p.m. and 2. a.m. Saturday morning.

National Geographic Channel program schedule -
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http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/tv-schedule

National Geographic Channel YouTube
page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/NationalGeographic


JAGUAR XJ IN ICELAND

http://youtu.be/WaV0i8tuUe4

So very, very far away from the daily gridlock in Hallandale Beach -LOVE IT!


Det
är huset för mig
!: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/16/greathomesanddestinations/20110316iceland_ss.html

Street cams in Iceland
http://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/icelandlive/#austurstraeti

http://www.inspiredbyiceland.com/icelandlive/#blaa-lonid


http://www.icelandnaturally.com/