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Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by LightG »

willvarfar wrote: post #34
cjones26 wrote: post #3

National Geographic has been driving me crazy with this email popup. I won't be giving them my email, so sadly I will not be reading any National Geographic articles.

Tangent: I used to subscribe to the mag for years. I was getting steadily more frustrated with the shift towards US domestic content and away from nature and the world, but I there was still good stuff in there and I was a big fan of sponsoring the research and exploration. Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust. Still miss…

Thanks for the heads up ... didn't know that and will act accordingly.

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by throwanem »

elseweather wrote: post #16

I wish the article had more photos - from the one it looks like it could be an awesome rock climbing area

Soldiers Delight is a preservation area, so the rangers won't be pleased if you go off the trail there, nor should they be - I expect the researchers had to clear their visit in advance. But there are plenty of formations around here similar to the one in the article photo; I feel like you'd have a harder time finding a state park without them, than with.

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by ceejayoz »

andrepd wrote: post #50
willvarfar wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tangent: I used to subscribe to the mag for years. I was getting steadily more frustrated with the shift towards US domestic content and away from nature and the world, but I there was still good stuff in there and I was a big fan of sponsoring the research and exploration. Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust. Still miss…

What?? I had no idea they were bought by Murdoch.

They're not, at least not now. The TV arm used to be part of 21st Century Fox from 2015-2017, but...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Geographic_Partners

Disney owns 73%. The National Geographic Society owns 27%.

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by ceejayoz »

LightG wrote: post #51
willvarfar wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tangent: I used to subscribe to the mag for years. I was getting steadily more frustrated with the shift towards US domestic content and away from nature and the world, but I there was still good stuff in there and I was a big fan of sponsoring the research and exploration. Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust. Still miss…

Thanks for the heads up ... didn't know that and will act accordingly.

Verify the claim first. (It's not true.)

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by willvarfar »

ceejayoz wrote: post #54
LightG wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the heads up ... didn't know that and will act accordingly.

Verify the claim first. (It's not true.)

Rupert Murdoch owns 21st Century Fox, which brought the magazine in 2015 for $725M.

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by ceejayoz »

willvarfar wrote: post #55
ceejayoz wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Verify the claim first. (It's not true.)

Rupert Murdoch owns 21st Century Fox, which brought the magazine in 2015 for $725M.

Disney bought 21st Century Fox from Murdoch two years later.

His ownership was very brief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fo...

No need to cancel a subscription over old news.

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by willvarfar »

ceejayoz wrote: post #56
willvarfar wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rupert Murdoch owns 21st Century Fox, which brought the magazine in 2015 for $725M.

Disney bought 21st Century Fox from Murdoch two years later. His ownership was very brief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fo... No need to cancel a subscription over old news.

So the money raised by the sale of magazines now goes to research and exploration again?

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by ceejayoz »

willvarfar wrote: post #57
ceejayoz wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disney bought 21st Century Fox from Murdoch two years later. His ownership was very brief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_21st_Century_Fo... No need to cancel a subscription over old news.

So the money raised by the sale of magazines now goes to research and exploration again?

The National Geographic Society still exists, yes, and makes money off the partnership with Disney. Their current programs are listed at https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/programs/.

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by pluc »

Really glad to see people have started to blacklist publications instead of offering workarounds ("Use an anonymous window!" "Toggle off Javascript!")

There really is no excuse to treat your customers/readers/viewers like that (edit: especially when you have Disney money)

Maybe if enough of us give up on them they'll learn and we'll turn "marketing" on its axis

Re: Rare chunks of Earth's mantle found exposed in Maryland

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Post by chadcmulligan »

Fricken wrote: post #42
willvarfar wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tangent: I used to subscribe to the mag for years. I was getting steadily more frustrated with the shift towards US domestic content and away from nature and the world, but I there was still good stuff in there and I was a big fan of sponsoring the research and exploration. Then they sold to Murdoch, and so my subscription was no longer fuelling the research and exploration stuff, so I stopped in disgust. Still miss…

My Grandmother had a subscription to the mag going back to the mid 1960s, I read all of them, and it enriched my childhood. The online experience has always sucked, but in different ways over the years.

I subscribed to the iPad version for a while, it was beautiful imho, though this was a few years ago.
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