Darwin's geological mystery solved Oct 21, 2009
In June 1833, Charles Darwin asked the captain of the HMS Beagle to delay his departure from Tierra del Fuego so that he could study a strange group of granite boulders he had found on the coast at Baha San Sebastin. "[O]ne of these, shaped somewhat like a barn, was forty-seven feet in circumference and projected five feet above the sand beach," he later wrote. (Scientific American)
The PG's Fall Movie Preview Sep 3, 2009
": Matt Damon plays the highest ranking corporate whistleblower in American history in this Steven Soderbergh movie based on a book about a real-life rising star at Archer Daniels Midland. "Love Happens": Romantic drama starring Jennifer Aniston as a florist who has sworn off men and Aaron Eckhart as a self-help author who comes to Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar. "Jennifer's Body": Diablo Cody, who became a screenwriting sensation with "Juno," uses horror laced with comedy to mine the... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Couple takes adventurous 'dream vacation' to Antarctica writeGalleryLink ("vid_id=1522&file=antarctica.flv"); Apr 5, 2009
On the third day, we hiked nearly 12 miles traveling to Tierra del Fuego and Argentine National Park ... The final sign as we left the trails in Tierra del Fuego was "Enjoy Yourself --- It's the End of the World.". (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Priceless beauty Feb 26, 2009
By Gideon Long BBC News, Tierra Del Fuego ... The story of what is now known as the Karukinka nature reserve dates back to the 1990s when Trillium bought land on Tierra del Fuego - a cluster of inhospitable islands between Chile and Argentina - clinging to the southernmost tip of South America ... "It's not often that you're in a position where you buy a security and learn that you have 680,000 acres of land in Tierra del Fuego," says Tracy Wolstencroft, head of Goldman Sachs' Environmental... (BBC News -- Americas)
Eric Simons - frolicking in Darwin's footsteps Feb 11, 2009
When Eric Simons grew tired of larking about on a glacier in Tierra del Fuego, it was snowing hard, so he found a shop with books in English, bought a copy of "The Voyage of the Beagle" by Charles Darwin and read the naturalist's charming prose ... Here's a young man who discovered just what he wanted to do from a book in Tierra del Fuego; his dark eyes gleam and his excitement is palpable when he talks about his plans. (San Francisco Chronicle)
