History, Art, Ice Cream, Gondolas, Julius Caesar's Assassination and Wine Bars: Podcast Travel Guides
"With Emmy Award winner Elyse, you'll explore the most interesting places, the best local texture, a different way of seeing things....Run into a church to look at a magnificent Michelangelo. Stop at a cafe serving the best espresso in town. See a spectacular Tuscan view from a 700 year old bridge. Wander the Ancient Coliseum....Take us along. Even if you've visited before, you'll see new and intriguing things in Italy [and Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, and Salzburg]. iJourneys' Walks are Fun, Lively, Informative and Cool." -- from the website.
posted by John Gabree at 12/31/2006
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attraction in the musical city of Bonn. The Museum contains the largest Beethoven collection in the world. Its impressive authentic documents bear witness to Beethoven's life and compositions.
simmering cauldron of one of the world's most extreme environments....In 
and the magical ways in which jellies and the marine environment have inspired artists in our new 'Jellies: Living Art' exhibit. This exhibit includes jellies never exhibited in North America before, like graceful flower hat and blue jellies, innovative artwork and even a walk-through jelly swarm." -- from the website. <
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are timed so well that he is never more than 5 milliseconds off the tight beat. Lindsay studies the physics of the sound of swing music such as Ray Charles’ hits, and in a talk last week at the Acoustical Society of America’s joint meeting in Honolulu with the Acoustical Society of Japan, he explained how he created a visual analysis of the bouncy, energetic, even lopsided musical style of swing." -- from the press release.
is the first time astronomers have seen the whole process of a black hole eating a star, from its first to nearly final bites. 'This type of event is very rare, so we are lucky to study the entire process from beginning to end,' said Dr. Suvi Gezari of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. Gezari is lead author of a new paper appearing in the Dec. 10 issue of 
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exploration of the natural sounds of California....The sounds are organized to represent the differing natural [animal] communities encountered as one goes inland from the coast, towards and over the Sierra Nevada to the Great Basin." <
Divided into four broad topics, the exhibit has well-written sections, with helpful diagrams, on such topics as the science of the sea, continental drift, the creation and destruction of oceans, the hydrologic cycle, and the motion of oceans (with info on the critical nature of currents and tides). "Life in the Sea" examines the critical roles oceanic creatures play in maintaining global balance. <
most ambitious wetlands and ecosystem restoration project is underway. Our journey begins in the Kissimmee River, flows into Lake Okeechobee, seeps into farmlands and water conservation areas, and finally trickles into Florida Bay....Exploring by kayaks and airboats in their search for understanding, the Karst film crew joins scientists on a journey through the Florida Everglades ecosystem in this two-part PBS film." -- from the website. <
National Intelligence Council...in recent years that takes a long-term view of the future. It offers a fresh look at how key global trends might develop over the next decade and a half to influence world events. Mindful that there are many possible 'futures,' our report offers a range of possibilities and potential discontinuities, as a way of opening our minds to developments we might otherwise miss." -- from the website. <
