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Now, with his new show on Fox and National Geographic, he's garnered a whole new group of admirers, mostly on Twitter , where he has 1.7 million followers.

The 70-passenger Sea Lion and the Sea Bird, operated by Seattle-based Lindblad Expeditions as part of the National Geographic cruise fleet, anchored at the Nanaimo cruise ship terminal on Wednesday and Thursday, en route from Seattle to Alaska.

Tonight, the second of 13 episodes of "Cosmos- A SpaceTime Odessey" hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson airs at 9 pm tonight on Fox and at 10 pm Sunday night on the National Geographic channel.

It's always thrilling to be in the room when someone's artistic dreams come true.

The Imelda May Show offers a variety of musical genres; Mixology is a brand new US sitcom, while space-lovers should enjoy A Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey .

Seasons at Terroir, the six-part series that shows what it takes to run a high-powered restaurant kitchen in an increasingly competitive arena, will be aired on National Geographic channel from 25 March 2014 at 6.15pm for six consecutive weeks.

Pellissippi State Community College's Blount County Campus hosts its annual Faculty Senate Book Sale 8 a.m.-6 p.m., March 24-25, and 8-noon, March 26 in the upstairs lobby of the Blount County Campus, 2731 W. Lamar Alexander Pkwy.

St. Patrick's Day, which is celebrated worldwide on March 17, honors St. Patrick, the Christian missionary who supposedly rid Ireland of snakes during the fifth century A.D. According to legend, the patron saint of Ireland chased the slithering reptiles into the sea after they began attacking him during a 40-day fast he undertook on top of a hill.

I wonder how many of Utah's leaders who are currently thumping their breasts about the National Geographic putting southern Utah's Kane County on the top 10 list of places to visit in the world also complained about President Clinton creating the incredibly scenic Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which encompasses so much of what those ... (more)

He has served as assistant White House press secretary to President Ronald Reagan, senior vice president of mission programs for National Geographic, president of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, and has held public relations and marketing posts for both Occidental Petroleum Corp. and the Texas Rangers.

National Geographic is about to take one giant leap for cable kind tonight with "Live From Space," unprecedented TV event to share the wonder - and drama - of space travel like never before.

National Geographic photographer Gerd Ludwig has visited Chernobyl nine times over the past twenty years.

Here's a funny story. A reporter at National Geographic wanted to find someone to interview about pi-that number you learned in grade school that is the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter.

Last Sunday's debut of Cosmos, the rebooted series from Fox and National Geographic, made television history.

You wouldn't normally expect to see Utah's Kane County on a list of travel destinations that includes Ireland, Trinidad, Spain, Tasmania, Malta, the Philippines and Chile.

The heart of this scenic territory is the small town of Jordan. Rising from the banks of Big Dry Creek and straddling Montana Highway 200, Jordan was founded in about 1896 by Arthur Jordan.

This Nov. 7, 2013 file photo shows Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, a crew member of the International Space Station, waving prior to the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

National Geographic writer Mark Jenkins will share his experiences with one of the world's oldest skiing cultures Thursday, Mar. 13, at 5:30PM in LCCC.

Today Air New Zealand released the video where they offered one lucky traveler a chance to join National Geographic photographer and passionate environmentalist, Jason Edwards on assignment to Antarctica.

The giant sloth -- the ancient land mammal whose modern descendants dwell in trees -- apparently had a taste for seafood, and began venturing into the sea as food sources on land dried up.