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Jan 15, 2025 | 
nationalgeographic.com | Jon Heggie
In the early 1950s, Marie Tharp began connecting dots to map the ocean floor, using sonar technology. Sonar detects underwater objects by timing the echo of a soundwave and was originally developed to discover icebergs and later, submarines. Marie deployed it to measure the depth of the seafloor. She painstakingly took sonar readings from ships and plotted the data dots on a canvas map.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
nationalgeographic.com | Jon Heggie
On the turquoise waters of the Arabian Gulf, an elegant black vessel carves its way through a gentle swell. Its long, low, pitch-black hull curves gracefully up into a tall prow that is mirrored at the stern. Above the broad deck, a wide stretch of square sail, as dark as the boat itself, bulges with the wind and pushes the boat onwards. There is something deeply pleasing about the ship’s dimensions—it looks right.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jon Heggie
On the turquoise waters of the Arabian Gulf, an elegant black vessel carves its way through a gentle swell. Its long, low, pitch-black hull curves gracefully up into a tall prow that is mirrored at the stern. Above the broad deck, a wide stretch of square sail, as dark as the boat itself, bulges with the wind and pushes the boat onwards. There is something deeply pleasing about the ship’s dimensions—it looks right.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
nationalgeographic.com | Jon Heggie
Tracing the lines on a 17th-century map of Arabia, the eye is drawn to a cluster of dots along the Persian Gulf and an alluring Latin inscription: “Baram Hic Magnum Copia Margaritarii”—here in Bahrain you can find many pearls. It is an annotation that highlights Europe’s long fascination with pearls, possibly the oldest known gem and one that has never gone out of fashion. By 1665, when this map was made, pearls were a well-established symbol of wealth and one of the most valued gems in the world.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
nationalgeographic.com | Jon Heggie
Having answered an advert calling for “Brains, Beauty & Breeches,” in 1922 Aloha Wanderwell set off from Nice, France, driving her Ford Model-T on a five-year journey to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in an automobile. She travelled to places that few, if any, Westerner had ever visited, improvising along the way by using kerosene for fuel, bananas for grease, and elephant fat for oil.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jon Heggie
Having answered an advert calling for “Brains, Beauty & Breeches,” in 1922 Aloha Wanderwell set off from Nice, France, driving her Ford Model-T on a five-year journey to become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe in an automobile. She travelled to places that few, if any, Westerner had ever visited, improvising along the way by using kerosene for fuel, bananas for grease, and elephant fat for oil.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jon Heggie
At first glance you might see a rock, a bone, a book, steel cups, and a dagger. But the artefacts on display in the museums and galleries of the Saadiyat Cultural District in Abu Dhabi are consciously both objective and subjective: They are what they are, but we will all interpret them through our own unique lens that is shaped by our background and life experiences. This is a concept actively embraced by the Saadiyat Cultural District.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
nationalgeographic.com | Jon Heggie
At first glance you might see a rock, a bone, a book, steel cups, and a dagger. But the artefacts on display in the museums and galleries of the Saadiyat Cultural District in Abu Dhabi are consciously both objective and subjective: They are what they are, but we will all interpret them through our own unique lens that is shaped by our background and life experiences. This is a concept actively embraced by the Saadiyat Cultural District.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
spcare.bmj.com | Giorgos Tsiris |Jackie Stone |Jon Heggie |Dot Partington
AbstractBackground Hospice care is part of an ever-changing healthcare landscape shaped by socioeconomic and technological developments, alongside policy and funding opportunities and challenges. In this environment, the need for embedding sustainable leadership capacity within hospices seems crucial. Studies often focus on leadership skills of executives or senior managers, but contemporary literature challenges conventional hierarchical models to explore the role of shared leadership approaches.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
nationalgeographic.com | Jon Heggie
In northwest Saudi Arabia, the artistic heritage of the AlUla oasis is literally carved into the landscape. From the enigmatic rock art of the Neolithic era, through the colossal statues of the Dadanite and Lihyanite kingdoms, to the monumental architecture of the Nabataeans, AlUla was already steeped in artistic tradition when a new and distinctive art form began to emerge—Islamic art.
