Results tagged “nationalgeographic”

Tonight Progressive Forum Houston will bring Tim Flannery, author of The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate, to speak at the Wortham Center on what he knows best: global warming. His book is renowned as the finest and clearest account on the science behind global warming. It presents the powerful connection between climate change and human activity, and lays out a game plan for halting and eventually reversing the damage that we “weather... more ›

On Sundays, Houstonist runs opinion pieces relevant to life in Houston. The opinions expressed below are entirely those of the author. Happy December 31st! Since our resolutions pretty much stay the same from one year to the next (lose weight, get a better job, spend more time with the kids, get the drinking under control, stand up to that troll under the bridge), we need another way to note the passage of time. People in... more ›

It’s one of those “you’ve got to be kidding” stories. An elementary school teacher has been put on probation because she took her fifth grade students to an art museum, and guess what – they saw naked paintings and sculptures! The school approved the field trip to the Dallas Museum of Art and parents signed-off on it, too. However, after the trip, some parents got word that their children saw nude artwork, and that’s when... more ›

Y'know, sometimes there's just not a nice way to say something, and this is one of those times: Young Americans, in general, are stupid. This doesn't have anything to do with our foreign policy or our infatuation with vapid celebrity couples — it's about a new National Geographic poll that shows we have no idea where the hell anything is. Among the findings of the poll, which surveyed 510 Americans between the ages of 18... more ›

If you think the pages of National Geographic were filled with stories of unusual tribes engaging in unfamiliar customs in foreign lands, well, the current issue won't prove you wrong: This month, the august journal explores the curious customs of the River Oaks crowd. Between the outrageous parties, the multimillion-dollar divorces, the Versailles replicas and the murders, Houstonians have long known how entertaining the local jet set can be, but River Oaks seems to have... more ›