Antarctica, a 40-minute feature film on the continent, animals and the scientists who work there, is available on streaming video from Hulu.com.
Archive for December, 2008
Preview Antarctica
Posted in Antarctica, tagged Antarctica, film on December 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Women in Ancient Greece
Posted in Aegean, classics, tagged Ancient Greece, art, onassis foundation, women on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Onassis Cultural Foundation in midtown Manhattan has just opened an interesting exhibition on the role of women in ancient Greece, as illuminated in art of the time. The New York Times writes,
The main misconception is the notion that women had a universally mute and passive role in Athenian society. It is true that [...]
TDI Radio goes live!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We’re still trying to work out how to embed a player inside this here blog, but in the meantime, you can check out the sounds of Travel Dynamics International’s world on Blip.fm! You’ll find ancient Malian songs, traditional sea shanties, Greek folk songs, South African choral works, and a great deal more. It’s the soundtrack [...]
Things to do in Venice when it’s flooded, #5
Posted in Italy, Mediterranean, tagged amusement, entertainment, Italy, sports, venice on December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wakeboard. Hang ten, dude! From the marvelous website News:Lite – It Barely Qualifies as News, we receive the heroic story of Duncan Zuur, who has now fulfilled his life’s ambition of wakeboarding across St. Mark’s Square. I’m not sure it’s really worth your while to watch the video; suffice to say that he attaches a [...]
A Better Jet-Lag Pill?
Posted in travel tips, tagged cruise, travel, travel tips on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We give people wonderful vacations here at TDI, but let’s face it: a trans-Atlantic flight, a hop on a boat, and touring the very next day? We know it, you know it – that first breakfast is rough when you’re still feeling that soul-delay. (That’s how William Gibson describes jet-lag in his novel Pattern Recognition.)
Well, [...]
One reason why we do what we do.
Posted in classics, tagged cruise, quotes, travel on December 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.
- Ralph Crawshaw
