Have you lived on an aircraft carrier or have a family member who has? In conjunction with the Carrier series starting April 27, 2008, we’re looking for a few good stories or video to share with viewers.
The Fragonard Room inside the Henry Clay Frick Estate is the setting for an ensemble of canvases by Fragonard and a remarkable group of French furniture from the 1700s. Walk through the room online.
While Darwin is best known for his theory of evolution, he had a lifelong fascination with plants. The new exhibit on Darwin at the Bronx Botanical Garden features a breathtaking array of orchids, including the comet orchid from Madagascar, whose defining characteristic is a 12-inch-long nectary. You can watch video of the special moth that pollinated such a plant on Nature online.
Smear campaigns are nothing new in U.S. politics, particularly around election time. Is Wright a victim of negative campaigning or are his controversial comments a legitimate political issue? See Wright’s response on Moyers Journal originally broadcast April 25, 2008.
Next week in Nature’s “Superfish,” Rick Rosenthal searches far and wide for the opportunity to swim with the greatest gamefish in the sea — billfish.
Do you have special memories of time you’ve spent at the ocean — or in it? Have you had a memorable close encounter with marine life? Nature wants to know about it.
On the 18th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, NASA released breathtaking new telescope images of galaxies colliding. NewsHour has an online slideshow of the images.
The Korea Society just opened a new exhibition, Inside North Korea with the New York Philharmonic, a collection of photographs by award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris. The collection documents the concert by the New York Philharmonic orchestra in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on February 26, 2008.
Thirteen teams up with NY Times writer and bestselling author Mark Bittman–he’ll be doing live webcasts here on thirteen.org, starting April 27, 2008. You can ask your questions here, and he’ll answer them live during the webcast.
Isiah Thomas is just one of a long line of New York sports characters who have fallen on both sides of the hero/villain divide. This great episode of New York Voices from June 2003 delved into the paragons and pariahs of New York sports. Narrated by Vincent Pastore from the Sopranos.
Earlier this week, Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, asked tenor Juan Diego Flórez if he would repeat the aria “Ah! Mes Amis” from Donizetti’s “La Fille du Régiment” if the audience demanded it. Flórez said that he would, and sure enough, during Monday night’s performance, he sang the aria twice, nailing the difficult high C nine times apiece.
