Greenland

It’s official – even McDonald’s has pulled out of the nearly bankrupt nation. The fast food giant recently closed its business in Iceland, due to the financial crisis making it too expensive to operate here. Just one year after a financial crash that almost left the island bankrupt, it’s hit… Read the rest

Live an active lifestyle? Love the outdoors? Enjoy incorporating elements of extreme in all that you do? Then the Polar Circle Marathon might be for you.
Deemed “the coolest marathon on earth,” the Polar Circle Marathon takes place in Greenland, where participants run mostly on gravel roads and smaller paths… Read the rest

If you are heading out on the open sea this year then be sure to keep a weathered eye peeled for one of the 90 rubber ducks NASA purposely lost at sea.
According to the Guardian,

The US space agency has yet to find any trace of 90 bathtub toys … Read the rest

When it came time to study the frozen innards of Greenland’s fastest-moving glacier, NASA scientists didn’t go to the drawing board. They went to the bathtub.
In order to better understand why glaciers speed up as they move out to sea a U.S. rocket scientist unleashed 90 rubber ducks into… Read the rest