Easter Island

The enduring image in the public's mind of the mysterious heads on Easter Island is simply that - heads. Read More

The large stone statues, or moai, for which Easter Island is world-famous, were carved from 1100-1680 CE (rectified radio-carbon dates). Read More

In incredibly old news (my favorite kind!), the giant stone heads on Easter Island have bodies. Read More

The head statuary of Easter Island is instantly recognizable to people all over the world, but who would have guessed that, lurking beneath the soil, these famous mugs also had bodies? Read More

Three years ago I redeemed a massive chunk of AMEX points for a Brooks Brothers gift card so I could purchase a few Non-Iron button downs for work. Read More

WASHINGTON, DC -- (Marketwire) -- 04/23/12 -- The Chilean Government has announced its intention to expand the Salas y Gómez marine reserve and to create a smaller reserve in Hanga Roa Bay -- the harbor right off the main town and capital of historic Easter Island. Read More

Everyone oohs and aahs when you say you're going to Easter Island. Read More

The estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age. Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental conditions, coming back from the brink to reunite and populate the world. Read More

"I'm pretty sure the people at the height of Easter Island thought their technology conveyed some sort of invincibility on them as well. If humanity is ever to think of itself as immune from the limitation of planet Earth it will only be on the day that mankind had made itself independent of planet earth. And that day is a very long way off. So as a species we are in a race. Can a technical species with no restrictions on its population growth reach the ability to survive and thrive in the common environments found in reachable space before the inevitable crash from overpopulation?"Read More

The estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age. Tiny bands of early humans, forced apart by harsh environmental conditions, coming back from the brink to reunite and populate the world. Read More