The meeting also touched on fields of cooperation between the Sultanate and "
National Geographic Society" in the field of scientific and cultural programmes that aim at spreading knowledge and enhancing understanding and dialogue among cultures and civilizations.
"1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving" is a stunning picture book from the
National Geographic Society that invites readers to hear the voice of Native Americans.
That's what a five-nation team of explorers funded by the
National Geographic Society found when they used the Global Positioning System (GPS) to survey five remote rivers in a 100-square-kilometer area in southern Peru last July.
Finally, researchers at Texas A&M University in College Station and the
National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., created video backpacks: a small camera plus monitoring instruments.
Currie, Stephen Czerkas of the Dinosaur Museum in Blanding, Utah, and Xing Xu of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing announced the discovery of Archaeoraptor at a press conference in Washington, D.C., at the
National Geographic Society last October (SN: 11/20/99, p.
The
National Geographic Society, which helped support the work, has adopted that figure and will include it on maps and globes.
of North Texas), by drawing on unpublished readers' letters from the
National Geographic Society's archives and other neglected archival materials, reveals a far more critical and rigorous engagement with the magazine on the part of readers and thus a more complex picture of the ways narratives of American identity and America's place in the world are formulated, circulated, and continually negotiated.
At a press conference last month at the
National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., Czerkas and his colleagues announced that they would return the fossil to China after its scientific evaluation.
Harrison, co-star of the Sundance feature film The Linguists and
National Geographic Society fellow, travels the globe recording dying languages and interviewing last speakers.
Va., coleader of a U.S.-Argentine-Peruvian team supported by the
National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C.
Earle, the
National Geographic Society's explorer-in-residence, encountered a disturbing change of scene late last year when she returned to scuba dive at one of her favorite haunts.