NGC to air Carl Sagan’s original “Cosmos” series

Tonight, National Geographic Channel will unveil its most ambitious television project to date — the unprecedented six-part miniseries MARS, which blends scripted drama and feature film-caliber effects with provocative documentary segments into a new frontier of education and entertainment. • MORE: MARS: Could We Be a Multi-Planet Species? Ron Howard and NGC Team Up to Show You How it Might Happen Sooner Than You Think Created in partnership with Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment, RadicalMedia and a veritable who’s who of scientific minds and other “big thinkers” (see the complete list here), MARS boasts an international cadre of adventure-seeking actors playing its international cadre […]

National Geographic Channel’s Sunday-night special T Rex Autopsy takes guts … and turns them into geek-out, gruesome fun wrapped up in a hefty education in all things Tyrannosaurus rex. Mixing cutting-edge CGI effects with top-notch science — and scientists — the network will reveal how the 65-million-year-old, teeny-armed rock stars of the dinosaur world lived, the challenges they encountered and why they died. Billed as “part gruesome monster film and all real science,” T. Rex Autoposy “stars” an impressive 43’ x 13’ beastie nicknamed Edwina lovingly created over 12,000 hours by Crawley Creatures of Walking with Dinosaurs fame. And they spared the scientists no detail of […]

Saturday, Sept. 11. AMSTERDAM — The airport has art books for travelers’ perusal, a piano, a well-designed, clean ladies room and no one has yelled at me. Dorothy, we’re not in Newark any more. They do not require travelers to remove shoes at check-in! Given that it is Sept. 11, and I am a New Yorker, and want nothing more than to switch the safety of the world back nine years and one day, I get it. Still this is much easier. KENYA — Ran into a little trouble getting into country. Had filled out visa forms on airplane and […]